Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
Cross-Boundary Wildfire Solutions Act
The bill directs studies and a congressional report to improve coordination and funding access for cross‑boundary wildfire mitigation—potentially accelerating on‑the‑ground hazard reduction—while imposing modest study costs and risking regulatory changes or funding shifts that could affect landowners and other programs.
Federal Building Threat Notification Act
The bill standardizes life‑safety communications and assigns on‑site accountability to improve federal building safety and responder coordination, but it requires staff time and local implementation capacity that may produce uneven protection and short-term operational costs.
Save Our Sequoias Act
The bill directs extensive new coordination, funding, and expedited authorities to protect and restore giant sequoias—trading faster, better‑funded action and greater Tribal participation for higher federal costs, reduced routine public/environmental review, and increased role for donors and private
Apache County and Navajo County Conveyance Act of 2025
The bill grants two rural counties small parcels of federal land for cemetery use and speeds conveyances—providing local control and modest federal savings—while shifting survey/cleanup costs and legal/environmental risks onto the counties and nearby communities.
National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program Reauthorization Act of 2025
The bill strengthens federal earthquake resilience by expanding scope, clarifying roles, improving early warning, and providing multi‑year support, but many new expectations hinge on future appropriations and will raise costs and administrative burdens for governments and property owners.
HELP Response and Recovery Act
The bill trades removal of an obsolete DHS requirement and new public reporting intended to increase transparency and oversight for risks to disaster-response clarity, added reporting costs, and potential exposure of sensitive contracting details.
BADGES for Native Communities Act
The bill improves Tribal investigation capacity, coordination, oversight, and officer support for missing persons and related cases, but its limited, time‑bound funding, administrative requirements, and some legal ambiguities risk undercutting long-term impact unless Congress provides sustained resources and clear implementation guidance.
Enhancing Stakeholder Support and Outreach for Preparedness Grants Act
The bill increases outreach, transparency, and oversight to help governments and first responders secure better-targeted homeland security grants, but imposes administrative costs, potential delays in visible benefits, and extra burdens on smaller jurisdictions.
Fire Ready Nation Act of 2025
The bill would substantially strengthen wildfire forecasting, data sharing, and responder capacity — improving safety and planning for many communities — at the cost of significant federal spending, expanded data‑sharing (and related privacy/cybersecurity risks), and added administrative burden that could slow near‑term deployments and alter local authority.
Sanction Sea Pirates Act of 2025
The bill strengthens U.S. tools to deter piracy and protect shipping and humanitarian flows, but it raises costs for taxpayers and shippers, risks diplomatic friction, and could harm innocents or limit transparency through broad sanctions and visa penalties.
Promoting Resilient Supply Chains Act of 2025
The bill centralizes efforts and definitions to strengthen U.S. supply‑chain resilience and support domestic manufacturing—potentially improving access to critical goods and jobs—but does so at the risk of higher costs, budgetary and administrative burdens, privacy and trade tensions, and program uncertainty from limited funding and a 10‑year sunset.
Emergency Wildfire Fighting Technology Act of 2025
The bill accelerates information to firefighters and policymakers about a new aerial firefighting tool—potentially improving wildfire response—at the risk of prompting costly or premature procurement based on limited early evaluations.
Fix Our Forests Act
The bill accelerates and coordinates large-scale fuels reduction, watershed restoration, tribal inclusion, and community assistance to reduce wildfire risk and create economic opportunities — but it does so by streamlining and expanding federal authorities in ways that reduce environmental review, local control, and some legal protections while raising administrative costs and implementation risks.
POWER Act of 2025
The bill lets utilities pair emergency restoration with hazard mitigation to speed recovery and reduce future outage costs, but it raises near‑term federal spending and risks uneven prioritization and treatment across communities and utilities.
Post-Disaster Assistance Online Accountability Act
The bill improves transparency and clarity around federal disaster assistance—helping governments, communities, and watchdogs detect waste and coordinate recovery—while creating new quarterly reporting costs, potential privacy/security risks, and the possibility of expanded eligibility that raises fiscal and administrative burdens.
Observing the 1-year anniversary of the 2025 Southern California wildfires.
The resolution commits federal recognition and coordination to support recovery and strengthen emergency response for a large displaced population, potentially unlocking funding and preparedness benefits, but it raises federal costs and administrative complexity and risks slow or uneven delivery of aid to those affected.
Recognizing the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
The bill channels substantial federal investment into levees, evacuation routes, grid hardening, and insurance reforms to reduce storm damage and speed recovery in the Gulf, but it requires large public spending and risks leaving vulnerable populations and nonstructural recovery needs insufficiently protected.
Western Wildfire Support Act of 2025
The bill strengthens wildfire detection, response, reporting, and long‑term rehabilitation—providing new funding, teams, technology pilots, and clearer planning authorities—but does so at the cost of new federal spending, potential shifts of DOD resources, added administrative burdens, and gaps or burdens for some communities (including excluded lands and local partners).
NFIP Extension Act of 2025
The bill preserves short-term access to flood insurance and FEMA's ability to pay claims (including retroactive coverage) but does so by extending borrowing authority and postponing long-term NFIP reforms, leaving taxpayers exposed and policyholders facing continued uncertainty about future premiums and flood maps.
End FEMA Benefits for Illegal Immigrants Act
The bill reduces federal spending and keeps FEMA funds focused on traditional disasters by limiting FEMA support for immigration-related sheltering, but does so by cutting aid to undocumented people and shifting costs and health/safety risks onto local governments, nonprofits, and vulnerable individuals while narrowing FEMA's flexible response capacity.
Protect the West Act of 2025
The bill delivers large, sustained federal investment and new grant authorities to accelerate science‑based forest, watershed, and wildfire‑resilience work—creating jobs, tribes' involvement, and measurable outcomes—but does so at substantial taxpayer cost and with risks of uneven distribution, administrative complexity, reduced congressional control over some donated funds, and potential limits on certain fuel‑reduction tactics.
Gold King Mine Spill Compensation Act of 2025
The bill provides a faster, funded federal process that delivers defined economic payments to people injured by the Gold King Mine spill but narrows who can recover, limits the types and amounts of recoverable damages, caps government liability, and shifts some costs and oversight trade‑offs onto taxpayers.
REPLACE Act
The bill ensures mandatory fee waivers for replacing critical documents for survivors of qualifying major disasters—improving recovery and access for vulnerable populations—while creating agency costs and leaving out victims of disasters that don't meet the statutory assistance threshold, making effective outreach and the narrow eligibility standard the central trade-offs.
Ohkay Owingeh Rio Chama Water Rights Settlement Act of 2025
The bill trades a legally certain, funded settlement and major water-restoration and infrastructure investments for Ohkay Owingeh (and related environmental and governance benefits) in exchange for broad tribal waivers, substantial federal/state spending, reduced flexibility for other water users, and new administrative and legal constraints that shift risks onto both the tribe and public budgets.
Wildfire Victim Tax Relief and Recovery Act
The bill provides targeted tax relief and clearer tax rules for Texas Panhandle fire survivors and affected agricultural owners—boosting net disaster recoveries and reducing uncertainty—at the cost of reduced near-term federal revenue, narrower coverage that may produce unequal treatment, and added compliance complexity for taxpayers and administrators.
Wildfire Intelligence Collaboration and Coordination Act of 2025
The bill centralizes wildfire science and real‑time intelligence to improve prediction, response, and public‑health protection, but does so at increased federal cost and with governance, authority, privacy, and interoperability risks that could limit near‑term effectiveness for some local jurisdictions.
Federal Emergency Mobilization Accountability (FEMA) Workforce Planning Act
The bill aims to strengthen FEMA readiness, efficiency, and accountability through multi-year workforce planning and GAO oversight, but does so without new funding and by requiring publication of detailed data and new compliance steps that could strain staff, raise privacy/security concerns, and add administrative burdens.
Fire Management Assistance Grants for Tribal Governments Act
The bill gives tribal governments faster, formalized access to FEMA firefighting assistance and requires tribal consultation, but its value depends on timely FEMA rulemaking and it may increase administrative complexity and federal costs.
Housing Survivors of Major Disasters Act of 2026
The bill broadens and speeds access to housing and repair aid for disaster survivors—especially people without formal title and renters—by reducing documentation and language barriers and adding rental assistance, but it raises federal costs, fraud and administrative risks, and the possibility of delays or uneven implementation.
Forever Chemical Regulation and Accountability Act of 2026
The bill sharply strengthens protections, transparency, enforcement, and remediation against PFAS contamination — improving public health and environmental outcomes — but does so at the cost of significant compliance, legal, and administrative burdens that could hit small businesses, raise prices, and create transitional regulatory uncertainty.
