Last progress June 4, 2025 (8 months ago)
Introduced on June 4, 2025 by Yassamin Ansari
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
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Last progress June 6, 2025 (8 months ago)
Coordinated Federal Response to Extreme Heat Act of 2025
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Last progress January 29, 2025 (1 year ago)
Creates a NOAA-led National Integrated Heat Health Information System (NIHHIS) and an interagency committee to coordinate Federal efforts to reduce heat-related health risks. The law requires a public 5-year strategic plan (first due within two years), open sharing of NIHHIS data and tools, stewardship by NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, and authorizes $5 million per year for FY2025–2029 to support the system and committee operations.
"Extreme heat" means heat that is much higher than local normal temperatures, measured by duration, intensity, season length, or frequency.
"Heat" means any combination of atmospheric factors that affect how the human body regulates temperature, such as air temperature, humidity, sun exposure, and wind speed.
"Heat event" means an occurrence of extreme heat lasting two days or more that may affect human health.
"Heat-health" means health effects on people from heat, whether during a heat event or not, including effects tied to vulnerability, exposure, or the risk of those effects.
"Planning" means activities done over different timeframes (days to decades) using scenarios or probability/deterministic information to identify and take actions to reduce heat-health risks ahead of time.
Primary implementers: NOAA will expand responsibilities to create, staff, and host NIHHIS (with stewardship assigned to the National Centers for Environmental Information) and to support a research and tool-development effort through the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research. Other Federal agencies named to the interagency committee will need to assign representatives and participate in coordination and planning activities, which could add small personnel costs but no direct mandated program spending. Tribal governments and other stakeholder groups will be formally consulted and can influence priorities and the strategic plan. Researchers, public health agencies, emergency managers, and local governments stand to benefit from improved heat data, forecasts, decision-support tools, and open access to NIHHIS data and metadata. Vulnerable and marginalized communities are likely to see indirect benefits from better warnings, planning tools, and federal coordination that inform local preparedness and response. The authorization of $5 million per year provides funding capacity for NOAA to implement the system and committee, but actual outlays require appropriation; program scale will depend on whether Congress appropriates the authorized amounts. Overall, the bill centralizes federal heat-health coordination, improves data availability, and supports science-based tools without imposing regulatory mandates on states or localities.
