HR 956 ยท Aerial Firefighting Enhancement Act of 2025
Referred to the Subcommittee on Forestry and Horticulture.
- Introduced
- Feb 4, 2025
- Latest action
- Mar 7, 2025
- Sponsor
- Rep. Dan Newhouse [R-WA-4]
- Policy area
- Armed Forces and National Security
- Cosponsors
- 17
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.
Recent actions
- 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 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 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
- Feb 4, 2025 Introduced in House
Votes
No recorded votes are available for this bill.