Legislation· Mar 2025Sponsored by Bruce Westerman (R)
Fix Our Forests Act
Speeds up forest management projects to reduce wildfire risk on federal land.
Tradeoff
Exempts certain forest-management activities from environmental review and streamlines decisions under laws protecting endangered species and historic sites. Creates a new Fireshed Center staffed across 15 federal agencies to track wildfire risks and coordinate response.
What's in it
The House passed this 279-141 on January 23, 2025 — sitting in the Senate.
House
Introduced
(Jan 16, 2025)
House
Committee on Natural Resources(Jan 16, 2025)
The bill went to more than one committee at the same time.
House
Passage of the bill
Passed(Roll #25 · Jan 23, 2025)
279 yeanay 141Senate
Received from the House
Received(Jan 28, 2025)
- Scott H. Peters (D-CA)
- Thomas P. Tiffany (R-WI)
- Jimmy Panetta (D-CA)
- Pete Stauber (R-MN)
- George Whitesides (D-CA)
- Mike Collins (R-GA)
- Gabe Vasquez (D-NM)
- Young Kim (R-CA)
- Jim Costa (D-CA)
- Ryan K. Zinke (R-MT)
- Josh Harder (D-CA)
- Dusty Johnson (R-SD)
- Ami Bera (D-CA)
- Jennifer A. Kiggans (R-VA)
- John Garamendi (D-CA)
- Celeste Maloy (R-UT)
- Mike Thompson (D-CA)
- Nicholas Begich (R-AK)
- J. Luis Correa (D-CA)
- Jeff Crank (R-CO)
- Jared F. Golden (D-ME)
- Mike Ezell (R-MS)
- Kevin Mullin (D-CA)
- Jeff Hurd (R-CO)
- Susie Lee (D-NV)
- David G. Valadao (R-CA)
- Adam Gray (D-CA)
- Andy Barr (R-KY)
- Steny H. Hoyer (D-MD)
- Earl L. "Buddy" Carter (R-GA)
- Brittany Pettersen (D-CO)
- John Joyce (R-PA)
- Jay Obernolte (R-CA)
- Tim Walberg (R-MI)
- Doug LaMalfa (R-CA)
- Paul A. Gosar (R-AZ)
- Lauren Boebert (R-CO)
- Tom McClintock (R-CA)
- Darrell Issa (R-CA)
- Vince Fong (R-CA)
- Harriet M. Hageman (R-WY)
- Russell Fry (R-SC)
- Mark E. Amodei (R-NV)
- Addison McDowell (R-NC)
- Cliff Bentz (R-OR)
- Wesley Hunt (R-TX)
- Tony Wied (R-WI)
- Kevin Kiley (R-CA)
- Thomas R. Suozzi (D-NY)
- Robert J. Wittman (R-VA)
- Dan Newhouse (R-WA)
- Ken Calvert (R-CA)
- Mark Messmer (R-IN)
- Mike Kennedy (R-UT)
- J. French Hill (R-AR)
- Pete Sessions (R-TX)
Passage votes so far· Jan 23, 2025· 119th Congress · 2025–2027