HR 956
Aerial Firefighting Enhancement Act of 2025
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.
Bill status
- Status
- In committee
- Sponsor
- Rep. Dan Newhouse [R-WA-4]
- Cosponsors
- 17
- Policy area
- Armed Forces and National Security
- Introduced
- 2025-02-04
- Latest action
- 2025-03-07: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forestry and Horticulture.
Committee referrals
Recent actions
- 2025-03-07: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forestry and Horticulture.
- 2025-02-04: 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.
- 2025-02-04: 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.
- 2025-02-04: 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.
- 2025-02-04: Introduced in House