Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
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.
Recognizing that climate change-driven extreme weather events are increasing at the same time that the government is dismantling weather monitoring and alert systems.
The resolution calls attention to restoring NOAA/NWS capacity to improve forecasts, warnings, and climate resilience for vulnerable communities, but doing so would require increased federal spending and leaves communities at risk until funding and staffing are actually restored.
Improving Flood and Agricultural Forecasts Act of 2025
The bill expands and funds local and non‑Federal observation networks to improve forecasts and warnings—boosting public safety and local monitoring capacity—while imposing modest federal costs, added administrative burdens on NOAA/NWS, and potential access or affordability challenges for some communities and data users.
Climate Change Education Act
The bill channels multi-year federal funds and NOAA capacity into expanding climate literacy, workforce pathways, and targeted support for environmental justice communities—benefiting students, educators, and disadvantaged areas—while imposing new federal costs, administrative burdens, and funding-design trade-offs that may concentrate resources and provoke local pushback.
Artificial Intelligence-Ready Data Act
The bill would make federal datasets more usable for AI—boosting research, innovation, and public forecasts—while shifting costs, operational burdens, and heightened re‑identification/privacy risks onto agencies, taxpayers, and vulnerable populations unless governance, funding, and licensing safeguards are tightened.
Weather Research and Forecasting Innovation Reauthorization Act of 2026
The bill would substantially strengthen U.S. weather, water, and climate forecasting — improving public safety, sector resilience, research, and planning — but does so through significant new federal spending and greater reliance on commercial data/AI/cloud services that raise fiscal, security, privacy, and implementation risks that must be managed.
Advanced Weather Model Computing Development Act
The bill aims to accelerate AI-enabled, high-resolution weather and climate modeling and workforce development by coordinating HPC access and funding, improving forecasts and research, but does so at material taxpayer cost and with risks of centralization, unequal distribution of benefits, security/privacy challenges, and added administrative burdens.
Coordinated Federal Response to Extreme Heat Act of 2025
The bill strengthens forecasting, data-sharing, and coordinated planning to reduce heat-related harm—especially for seniors and other vulnerable groups—but does so with modest federal costs, added administrative burdens, and some design choices (like the 2-day event threshold and open-data privacy risks) that could limit protections for certain populations.
DOE and NASA Interagency Research Coordination Act
The bill boosts DOE–NASA collaboration to strengthen research, infrastructure resilience, and STEM workforce development, but does so at the risk of higher federal costs and added safety, oversight, and data‑security challenges that require careful management.
Measuring the Cost of Disasters Act of 2025
The bill makes detailed, centralized disaster cost and location data publicly available to improve planning, transparency, and research, but creates ongoing funding and maintenance obligations and raises risks that the data could be misused or become outdated if not properly resourced.
Preventing HEAT Illness and Deaths Act of 2025
The bill significantly expands federal coordination, data systems, research, and targeted grants to reduce heat‑related harms—especially for low‑income and EJ communities—but relies on future appropriations, increases federal spending and administrative requirements, and creates tradeoffs in who receives limited funding and how quickly new protections are implemented.
NOAA Weather Radio Modernization Act
The bill improves flood alerting reach and consistency and strengthens NOAA workforce planning and transparency to bolster forecasts and public safety, but it may impose costs and administrative burdens on local governments and federal personnel systems and faces implementation risks if funding or time for quality planning are not provided.
TORNADO Act
The bill would strengthen forecasting, warnings, research capacity, and equity-focused partnerships—improving safety for many communities—but relies on unspecified or distributed funding, may impose new costs, raises privacy and inclusion risks, and could reduce some transparency, so benefits may be uneven and phased.
Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2026
The bill increases congressional oversight, fiscal transparency, and certain program safeguards (and strengthens weather and public‑safety capacity) but does so by imposing caps, certifications, rescissions, and policy restrictions that reduce agency flexibility, add administrative burdens, and shift or cut some program resources.
Integrated Ocean Observation System Reauthorization Act of 2025
The bill clarifies governance and expands data sharing to improve forecasts, coastal management, and predictable baseline funding for regional observing systems, but it locks in fixed funding rules, creates administrative burdens and legal uncertainties, and may raise taxpayer costs while reducing flexibility and some post-disaster guarantees.
FORECAST Act
The bill preserves critical National Weather Service staffing — maintaining public safety and reinstating job offers — at the cost of modest additional payroll spending and potential equity concerns for hiring across other federal agencies.
Water Research Optimization Act of 2025
The bill strengthens and centralizes federal water forecasting—improving forecast accuracy and coordination nationwide—but does so with risks of higher federal costs, reduced local tailoring of models, and some loss of regional autonomy.
FORECAST Act of 2025
The bill strengthens NOAA's S2S forecasting capabilities, workforce, and public access to forecasts—improving preparedness and building scientific capacity—while introducing ongoing federal costs, potential centralization of services, and risks from prematurely adopting unvalidated AI/ML methods.
Winter Recreation Small Business Recovery Act of 2025
The bill improves recognition, monitoring, and federal assistance eligibility for 'snow drought'—helping water managers and small businesses plan and access aid—but it provides no direct funding, may shift limited disaster resources, and could raise federal costs or produce rushed regulations, so benefits depend on how agencies implement and fund follow-on action.
Fog Observations and Geographic Forecasting Act
The bill boosts maritime safety, local economic resilience, and environmental-monitoring capacity through better fog observations and forecasting, but it requires federal investment, may impose costs on private operators, and will take time before benefits are realized.
Roadway Resiliency Act
The bill standardizes storm-related road-management guidance that can improve safety and reduce travel disruptions for many Americans, but it may impose unfunded costs on state and local governments and create administrative burdens and rushed guidance due to tight deadlines.
NOAA Weather Radio Modernization Act
The bill aims to make flash-flood alerts more reliable and widespread and to shore up NOAA/NWS staffing and transparency—improving public safety—but does so by imposing new costs, administrative burdens, and faster hiring/reclassification practices that could strain local budgets and weaken some civilian hiring protections.
Measuring the Cost of Disasters Act of 2025
The bill centralizes and regularly updates records of billion-dollar disasters, improving planning, research, and transparency, but it requires NOAA resources and risks misinterpretation, market effects, and under-recognition of cumulative smaller events.
NWR Modernization Act of 2025
The bill meaningfully expands, modernizes, and prioritizes NOAA Weather Radio—improving lifesaving alerts for rural, Tribal, and remote communities and strengthening continuity—but it requires significant federal investment and creates implementation, operational, environmental, and technology/dependency risks that must be managed.
TWISTER Act
The bill improves tornado forecasting and warnings to better protect communities and reduce damage, but it requires additional NOAA resources and coordination that could raise costs, produce false alarms, and impose administrative burdens on local governments.
Protect Americans from Climate Disasters Act
The bill restores NOAA staffing, data products, and funding to strengthen forecasting, disaster planning, and research—trading improved public safety and continuity for higher federal spending, reduced agency flexibility in prioritization, and the risk of short-term operational disruptions.
To establish in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration a program to improve precipitation forecasts, and for other purposes.
The bill directs modest, multi-year funding and technical upgrades to improve extreme-precipitation forecasts and public data access—boosting community resilience and research capacity—while adding federal cost, administrative reporting burdens, and equity risks for less-resourced partners.
Improving Atmospheric River Forecasts Act
The bill funds targeted improvements in subseasonal-to-seasonal and atmospheric-river forecasting that can materially reduce flood, landslide, and water-management risks—especially in the West—but requires multi-year federal spending, is time-limited and regionally focused, and could shift benefits toward certain private partners while raising data-sharing and continuity concerns.
Rural Weather Monitoring Systems Act
The bill produces a quick, evidence-based map of rural weather-monitoring gaps to guide policymakers and localities, but it does not provide funding and risks producing rushed or resource-intensive analysis that may delay real-world upgrades.
Fire Weather Development Act of 2025
The bill substantially strengthens wildfire forecasting, responder communications, workforce capacity, and interagency coordination—improving safety and operational readiness—but does so with modest new funding, added administrative complexity, procurement and participation constraints, and increased federal and local costs.
