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The bill would create and fund a coordinated federal heat-health system that improves warnings, data, research, and targeted resilience funding for vulnerable communities—reducing heat risks—while imposing recurring federal costs, adding bureaucracy, and creating implementation, privacy, and local cost risks that depend on future appropriations and program design.
State and local governments, health systems, and vulnerable communities (seniors, low-income, rural and urban neighborhoods) get sustained federal funding and a standing National Integrated Heat Health Information System (NIHHIS) to run operational heat-health services and coordination.
Seniors, people with disabilities, children, pregnant people, and other vulnerable individuals receive improved heat warnings, forecasts, surveillance, and coordinated early-warning tools that can reduce heat-related illness and deaths.
Low-income, Tribal, and communities of color are prioritized for grants and mitigation funding (including a statutory floor of ~40% for disadvantaged communities) leading to on-the-ground resilience projects (cool roofs, tree canopy, HVAC/filtration) and more equitable distribution of resources.
Taxpayers and the federal budget will bear new recurring costs (tens of millions per year through 2030 and potentially beyond), which could increase deficits or crowd out other priorities.
Many of the program benefits (grants, data systems, studies) depend on future appropriations and multi-year timelines, so promised services may be delayed or may not materialize without sustained funding.
The bill creates extra administrative and interagency reporting burdens that could add costs, cause overlapping programs, and slow implementation for federal, state, local, and tribal partners.
Based on analysis of 8 sections of legislative text.
Creates a NOAA-led national heat-health system, an interagency committee, a National Academies study, and a community grant program with authorized funding to reduce heat-related illness.
Introduced September 3, 2025 by Suzanne Bonamici · Last progress September 3, 2025
Creates a NOAA-led federal program to reduce heat-related illness and deaths by improving heat data, coordination, research, warnings, and local resilience. It sets up an interagency committee, a National Integrated Heat Health Information System (NIHHIS) with a Director, a National Academies study of gaps and remedies, a Community Heat Resilience grant program, and authorizes multi-year funding for these activities. Funds are specified for NOAA operations, the Academies study, and community grants for FY2026–FY2030; the NIHHIS must make heat data openly available, prioritize projects that help disadvantaged communities, and publish the Academies' study and subsequent Committee definitions and plans.