HR 956
119th Congress
House
Armed Forces and National Security
Aviation and airports
Fires
Forests, forestry, trees
Military assistance, sales, and agreements
Aerial Firefighting Enhancement Act of 2025
Introduced: February 4, 2025
Introduced by:
Newhouse, Dan
Republican
· Washington
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Everywhere this bill has been
3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Mar 7, 2025
Referred to the Subcommittee on Forestry and Horticulture.
Feb 4, 2025
Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, and Agriculture, 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.
Feb 4, 2025
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Aerial Firefighting Enhancement Act of 2025
This bill reauthorizes the Department of Defense to sell its excess aircraft and aircraft parts that are acceptable for commercial sale for wildfire suppression purposes. Such authority begins October 1, 2025, and ends October 1, 2035.
The bill also provides that such aircraft may be used to deliver water by air in order to suppress wildfire (the previous authority only provided for the delivery of fire retardant).
The bill removes the previous limitation on providing international wildfire suppression assistance with such purchased aircraft.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Forestry and Horticulture.
Committees of jurisdiction
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