Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
Emergency Conservation Program Improvement Act of 2025
The bill speeds and widens emergency financial help for agricultural producers and private forest landowners after wildfires through larger advance payments and broader eligibility, at the trade-off of higher program costs, increased taxpayer risk, potential recipient cash-flow strain, and added administrative complexity.
Cross-Boundary Wildfire Solutions Act
The bill trades immediate funding and action on cross-boundary wildfire mitigation for a GAO study that could produce useful recommendations to improve coordination and agency capacity, but it delays direct relief and risks inaction while imposing modest administrative costs.
Cross-Boundary Wildfire Solutions Act
The bill aims to accelerate and better-target cross‑boundary wildfire mitigation by broadening and clarifying federal authorities and producing GAO guidance, at the trade‑off of added complexity, potential legal uncertainty, and new or shifted costs for taxpayers, governments, and private landowners.
FIRE Act
The bill gives states more flexibility and incentive to use mitigation (like prescribed burns) and increases EPA transparency for wildfire pollution petitions, at the cost of possible weaker air-quality enforcement, legal uncertainty for compliance, and modest additional federal workload and expense.
Wildfire Aerial Response Safety Act
The bill aims to improve wildfire response speed and safety (and potentially reduce response costs) by studying UAS interference and countermeasures, but it raises privacy/mission‑creep risks and could prompt additional unquantified public spending.
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
ACRES Act
The bill increases public transparency and produces standardized wildfire treatment and effectiveness data to help communities and governments target work and oversight, but it creates administrative burdens and requires agencies to meet new demands with existing resources—risking diverted staff time from actual treatments and possible misleading use of raw cost-effectiveness figures.
ACERO Act
The bill aims to strengthen wildfire response and responder coordination through NASA-led research and procurement limits that reduce security risks, but it could restrict access to affordable drones, raise privacy concerns, and divert or duplicate federal resources.
To advance policy priorities that will break the gridlock.
The bill advances a mix of oversight, privacy, national‑security, veterans, and programmatic measures that preserve funding and expand protections, but does so at the cost of higher near‑term federal spending, added compliance and administrative burdens, and some limits or uncertainties around transparency and enforceability.
Utah Wildfire Research Institute Act of 2025
The bill creates a Utah-focused forest health and wildfire prevention Institute and enables university partnerships, but it leaves funding and implementation details unspecified and may increase federal administrative burdens.
Fire Ready Nation Act of 2025
The bill significantly strengthens wildfire and smoke forecasting, data sharing, and operational support—benefiting communities and responders—at the cost of substantial federal spending, added administrative complexity, privacy and equity risks, and potential implementation and sustainability challenges.
Designating May 2025 as "National Wildfire Preparedness Month".
The resolution increases national attention to wildfire risks—boosting public health protections, firefighter safety, community preparedness, and potential long‑term cost savings—at the cost of requiring new investments and possible regulatory and budget trade-offs for taxpayers and local governments.
Emergency Wildfire Fighting Technology Act of 2025
The bill accelerates a formal evaluation and increases oversight of a potential aerial firefighting tool that could help rural wildfire response, but it provides no procurement funding and risks rushed, incomplete reviews and staff diversion that may limit near-term benefits.
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.
Observing the 1-year anniversary of the 2025 Southern California wildfires.
The resolution directs federal recognition and coordination to help hundreds of thousands of displaced residents and strengthen emergency response capacity, but it increases federal spending and risks slow or uneven recovery and extra administrative burdens on local implementers.
Western Wildfire Support Act of 2025
The bill boosts wildfire preparedness, detection, response capacity, transparency, and long-term rehabilitation funding, especially for high-risk landscapes, but does so with new recurring federal costs, exclusions and jurisdictional/tribal governance issues, privacy and liability trade-offs around technology, and administrative or cost‑share burdens that may leave some places or communities less well served.
Wildfire Response and Preparedness Act of 2025
The bill aims to speed and standardize federal wildfire response and budgeting to reduce losses and improve accountability, but it likely raises costs for taxpayers, risks unrealistic expectations in remote/extreme situations, and may advantage large contractors over local providers.
Oregon Recreation Enhancement Act
The bill secures substantial Oregon public lands for conservation, recreation, tribal rights, and wildfire resilience but does so by restricting new mineral, geothermal, and development uses — trading local economic and development opportunities for environmental protection and public-safety gains.
Protect the West Act of 2025
The bill marshals substantial, sustained federal funding and flexible grant authorities to expand forest, watershed, and wildfire‑resilience projects—boosting jobs, local capacity, and environmental protection—but does so at significant cost and with risks of administrative complexity, uneven distribution, reduced congressional control over some funds, and trade‑offs that may limit certain fuel‑reduction tactics in protected areas.
Regional Leadership in Wildland Fire Research Act of 2025
The bill standardizes definitions and eligibility to sharpen and coordinate wildland fire research and include tribes, improving focus and collaboration—but does so by locking in external definitions and narrow categories that may reduce flexibility and leave some responders or topics excluded.
Wildfire Emissions Prevention Act of 2026
The bill speeds and clarifies EPA exceptional-event decisions and funds smoke-mitigation for schools and vulnerable communities, improving planning and indoor air safety — but risks weakening air-quality protections, delaying regulatory actions, and leaving many high-need communities without sufficient funding.
Hazardous Fuels Transportation Assistance Act of 2026
The bill directs recurring federal funds and grants to help rural communities, processors, and tribes reduce wildfire risk and support local jobs, but it restricts capital investment in processing facilities, limits grant sizes, and may favor larger applicants while adding new federal spending.
Wildland Firefighter Hazard Pay Correction Act
The bill extends and clarifies hazard pay for federal smokejumpers and prescribed-burn duties and speeds implementation, improving pay and certainty for federal wildfire crews, but increases federal payroll costs, creates short-term administrative burdens, and may produce definitional disputes and unmet expectations among non-federal firefighters.
FIRE SMART Act of 2026
The bill redirects Safe Drinking Water Act funding to strengthen water systems for firefighting in high-wildfire-risk areas and encourages local planning, improving safety and resilience but reallocating limited funds, risking inequitable access for under-resourced communities, and imposing immediate administrative burdens.
Utah Wildfire Research Institute Act of 2025
Creates a Utah-based Interior West Institute to improve wildfire prevention and intergovernmental coordination locally, at the cost of added federal spending and potential trade-offs with other regional programs.
Wildfire Intelligence Collaboration and Coordination Act of 2025
The bill centralizes wildfire science, forecasting, and data to improve community safety, responder effectiveness, and research efficiency—but does so at added federal cost and with risks that centralization, data/privacy issues, interoperability limits, and governance complexity could slow benefits or reduce local flexibility.
Expediting Forest Restoration and Recovery Act of 2025
The bill speeds and funds more in‑state forest restoration and fuels treatments—reducing wildfire and insect risk and clarifying revenue use—at the cost of reduced environmental review and more concentrated (federal and state) control, which raises risks to habitat, local budgets, and community input.
Direct the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to develop a plan to reorganize Federal wildland fire response, and for other purposes.
The bill centralizes wildfire preparedness and suppression under a new Interior agency to improve response and accountability, but it risks transition-related disruptions, jurisdictional friction with state/local partners, and greater federal administrative costs.
Support our Firefighters Act
The bill improves pay, paid rest, and consistent deployment rules for federal wildland firefighters—boosting recovery, retention, and pay—but does so at the cost of higher near-term and ongoing payroll expenses, potential staffing strain during peak fires, and by diverting limited IIJA balances with attendant budgeting complications.
Wildfire and Grid Reliability Act
This bill commits large, sustained federal funding and technical help to harden the grid and reduce wildfire risk—improving reliability and creating jobs—but requires steep local matching, has complex requirements that may disadvantage small utilities, and increases federal spending obligations.
