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.
Cross-Boundary Wildfire Solutions Act
The bill commissions a GAO study to improve coordination, funding access, and efficiency for cross‑boundary wildfire mitigation—potentially increasing treatments and federal dollars' value—but it risks delaying immediate actions and adding administrative costs or resource needs to implement recommended changes.
Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026
The bill directs substantial new investments and program expansions to support farmers, specialty crops, rural infrastructure, conservation, and nutrition, accelerating technology adoption and resilience but doing so with large new budget commitments, added administrative complexity, potential inequities favoring larger or better‑resourced actors, and some rollbacks of environmental and regulatory safeguards.
FIRE Act
The bill makes it easier for states to carry out prescribed burns and increases EPA petition transparency, but risks weakening enforcement and ignoring emissions that could harm local air quality while adding complexity that may slow regulatory decisions.
Emergency Conservation Program Improvement Act of 2025
The bill speeds larger advance federal payments to farmers and private forest owners to accelerate recovery from wildfires and emergency threats, but increases upfront federal costs, administrative complexity, and repayment risk for recipients.
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.
Emergency Conservation Program Improvement Act of 2025
The bill expands and accelerates emergency restoration aid for wildfire-affected private landowners (including federally- or human-caused fires), improving recovery speed but increasing federal costs, oversight risk, and administrative complexity.
Post-Disaster Reforestation and Restoration Act
The bill focuses federal resources and new grant/contract pathways to accelerate tribal and federal reforestation and improve project success, but it creates short-term program uncertainty, administrative costs, and risks unequal access for smaller tribes without additional capacity support.
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 the potential quality of hazardous fuels-reduction work—helping communities and enabling oversight—but does so by imposing new data-collection burdens without added funding and carries risks of inconsistent reporting, misleading comparisons, and sensitive disclosures.
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.
Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument Access Act
The bill clarifies and secures Monument boundaries and encourages voluntary, cooperative land conservation and visitor services—boosting tourism and preserving traditional uses—while creating uncertainty and possible economic, tax, environmental, and management costs for local landowners, governments, Tribes, and taxpayers.
Commerce, Justice, Science; Energy and Water Development; and Interior and Environment Appropriations Act, 2026
The bill directs sizable infrastructure, cleanup, energy, and emergency resources and increases congressional transparency and fiscal controls, but it does so at the cost of tighter agency constraints, added procurement and administrative burdens, concentrated interpretive authority, and fiscal and programmatic trade‑offs that may slow implementation and affect state, local, tribal, and private partners.
Breaking the Gridlock Act
The bill advances consumer privacy, oversight, veteran supports, emergency response fixes, and symbolic national heritage while imposing new administrative duties, regulatory and procurement burdens, and additional federal costs that shift trade‑offs between stronger protections/accountability and higher taxpayer and public‑sector implementation burdens.
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.
Cormorant Relief Act of 2025
The bill makes it easier for fish producers and local managers to control cormorant predation and clarifies authority across more States, but it increases risks to cormorant populations, public conflict, and regulatory oversight and monitoring burdens if limits and reporting are not strictly enforced.
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.
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 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.
Continued Rapid Ohia Death Response Act of 2025
The bill strengthens Hawaii-focused coordination, research, and assistance to combat Rapid ʻŌhiʻa Death, but its narrow scope and lack of dedicated funding or detailed implementation requirements risk uneven effectiveness, shifted costs to states, and limits on long-term flexibility.
Designating March 21, 2026, as "National Osceola Turkey Day".
The resolution supports turkey hunting as an economic driver and a source of conservation and habitat funding for rural areas, while imposing modest costs on payers and potentially prioritizing hunting uses over non‑hunting recreation or alternative conservation approaches.
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 that climate change is making wildfires more frequent, more intense, and more destructive.
The resolution strengthens the evidence base to justify federal wildfire mitigation and public-health responses—potentially improving protection for many Americans—but could also lead to higher public spending, regulatory costs, and legal disputes as climate attribution shapes policy and liability.
Expressing the need for the Federal Government to establish a national biodiversity strategy for protecting biodiversity for current and future generations.
This resolution promotes stronger, culturally informed biodiversity conservation and federal coordination to protect ecosystem services and research capacity, but it may impose land-use limits, compliance costs, and fiscal burdens while requiring careful resourcing to avoid leaving Tribal and low-income communities behind.
Designating the month of April 2025 as "Earth Month" and expressing support for environmental stewardship and climate action.
The resolution raises public awareness and affirms environmental justice and Indigenous stewardship, but its symbolic nature provides no new funding or regulatory power and risks shifting responsibility onto volunteers instead of driving systemic policy change.
Designating April 2025 as "National Native Plant Month".
The resolution promotes environmental and biodiversity benefits by affirming native plants, but may raise costs for landowners and create the potential for future land‑use restrictions tied to conservation policies.
Designating March 15, 2025, as "National Osceola Turkey Day".
The resolution secures permit-funded conservation and economic benefits for Florida hunters, local businesses, and wildlife agencies but concentrates benefits regionally and risks timing-related wildlife disturbance and diversion of attention from non-game conservation priorities.
Smith River National Recreation Area Expansion Act
The bill secures lasting environmental, recreational, and tribal-access protections for rivers, wetlands, and wilderness areas, while increasing federal acquisition and management activities that raise taxpayer costs and impose new land‑use, access, and permitting constraints on timber interests, private landowners, and local governments.
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).
