Fire Department Repayment Act of 2025
Official title: To require the standardization of reciprocal fire suppression cost share agreements, and for other purposes.
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Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.
Fire Department Repayment Act of 2025
This bill requires standard operating procedures for reciprocal fire suppression cost share agreements, which are agreements between federal, state, and local governments to share the costs of suppressing wildfires that occur across multiple jurisdictions.
The Departments of Agriculture, the Interior, Homeland Security, and Defense must establish standard operating procedures relating to payment timelines for fire suppression cost share agreements established under the Reciprocal Fire Protection Act. The departments must also review each agreement that is in operation within a year of this bill's enactment and modify an agreement as necessary to comply with the standard operating procedures.
The standard operating procedures must require that (1) each fire suppression cost share agreement be aligned with each of the cooperative fire protection agreements applicable to the entity subject to such fire suppression cost share agreement, and (2) the federal paying entity reimburse a local fire department if the fire department submits an invoice in accordance with cost settlement procedures.
- Introduced in House Formatted Text PDF Formatted XML
- INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS
- AMERICAN PROPERTY CASUALTY INSURANCE ASSOCIATION FKA PROPERTY CASUALTY INSURERS ASSOC. OF AMERICA
- AMERICAN PROPERTY CASUALTY INSURANCE ASSOCIATION FKA PROPERTY CASUALTY INSURERS ASSOC. OF AMERICA
- INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS
- AMERICAN PROPERTY CASUALTY INSURANCE ASSOCIATION FKA PROPERTY CASUALTY INSURERS ASSOC. OF AMERICA
- INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS
Bodies those filers lobbied
- Agriculture, Dept of (USDA)
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- SENATE
- Transportation, Dept of (DOT)
- Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS)
- Commerce, Dept of (DOC)
- Defense, Dept of (DOD)
- Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA)
Cite this page
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 345: Fire Department Repayment Act of 2025. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-345/
"H.R. 345: Fire Department Repayment Act of 2025." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-345/.
H.R. 345, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-345/.
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