The record
Legislation· Feb 2025
HR 836 Passed House — in Senate
Sponsored by David G. Valadao (R)
Emergency Wildfire Fighting Technology Act of 2025
Requires Forest Service and Interior to evaluate a container aerial firefighting system for wildfires.
Tradeoff
Mandates a 90-120 day study of a new wildfire-fighting technology with no stated funding or implementation requirement.
What's in it
Passed the House by on February 5, 2025 — sitting in the Senate.
House
Introduced
(Jan 31, 2025)
House
Committee on Natural Resources(Jan 31, 2025)
The bill went to more than one committee at the same time.
House
Passage of the bill
Passed by (Feb 5, 2025)
No individual votes were recorded.
Senate
Received from the House
on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry(Feb 6, 2025)
- Jim Costa (D-CA)
- Josh Harder (D-CA)
- Mark E. Amodei (R-NV)
- Dan Newhouse (R-WA)
- George Whitesides (D-CA)