Preventing HEAT Illness and Deaths Act of 2025

This bill aims to protect people from dangerous heat. It creates a national heat and health system inside NOAA to improve forecasts, warnings, and tools that help communities prepare and respond, with extra focus on places that are hit hardest by heat . It sets up a federal committee to coordinate agencies, build a 5‑year plan to share data and improve services, and work with state, local, and Tribal partners . It also orders an independent study to find gaps, like where schools or prisons lack air conditioning and which groups are most at risk, and to recommend fixes, including worker protections and better communication during heat waves .

The bill funds local projects that cut heat risks. Grants can go to cities, Tribes, nonprofits, schools, and others for things like cool roofs and pavements, more trees and shade, cooling centers, building upgrades for cooling, stronger power grids, community alerts, and safer workplace practices. At least 40% of funds must benefit low‑income and environmental justice communities . The bill also funds research to understand who is most vulnerable and which solutions work best .

• Who is affected: Residents in heat‑prone areas; workers exposed to heat; low‑income, rural, and urban neighborhoods with high heat risk; local and Tribal governments; nonprofits and schools .
• What changes: Better heat warnings and tools; a federal heat‑health coordinator and plan; grants for cooling projects and training; research on heat and health; more open, shared heat‑health data .
• When: Study starts within 120 days and finishes in up to 3 years; the 5‑year federal plan is due within 2 years; community grant program may begin within 1 year of enactment .
• Funding: Authorizes annual funding for the federal system and committee (2026–2030) and separate funding for community grants, increasing over time .