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The bill strengthens federal coordination, forecasting, research, and funding to reduce heat-related health risks—improving protections for many communities—while imposing new costs, administrative burdens, and data/privacy risks that are concentrated on smaller jurisdictions and taxpayers.
Local, state, Tribal, and territorial governments and health systems get a coordinated federal strategy that aligns agencies and priorities to reduce heat-related health risks and improve preparedness and response.
State and local emergency managers, health departments, and communities receive improved science-based heat forecasts, warning coordination, and actionable tools to better protect people during extreme heat events.
Researchers, policymakers, and public health agencies gain coordinated data, research priorities, and long-term archives that improve surveillance, evidence for interventions, and climate adaptation planning.
Taxpayers and federal budgets face increased costs from implementing NIHHIS and a federal heat strategy (including a $25 million NIHHIS appropriation over five years), which could crowd out other priorities.
Federal, state, local, and Tribal agencies may incur new reporting, administrative, and coordination burdens that divert staff time and resources from other programs.
Smaller jurisdictions, Tribal communities, and under-resourced local agencies could face technical, training, and capacity burdens to implement scenario-based planning, integrate new tools, or use NIHHIS resources without additional support.
Based on analysis of 5 sections of legislative text.
Creates a NOAA-led interagency heat-health system with open data, a 5-year strategic plan, and authorizes $5M/year for NOAA for FY2025–FY2029.
Introduced June 4, 2025 by Yassamin Ansari · Last progress June 4, 2025
Creates a coordinated federal effort to reduce heat-related illness by establishing an interagency committee and a NOAA-led National Integrated Heat Health Information System (NIHHIS). The law requires open access to heat and heat-health data, a publicly posted 5-year strategic plan due within two years, regular interagency meetings and stakeholder consultation, and authorizes $5 million per year for NOAA from FY2025–2029 to support the program and committee administration. The committee will bring representatives from many federal agencies together (with designated co-chairs), direct work across agencies, and consult non-federal partners. The NIHHIS will improve delivery of temperature and extreme-heat data, develop impact-based decision-support tools, steward archival data at NOAA’s NCEI, and support coordinated research and preparedness tools for communities and agencies.