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HR 345 · in committee · significant

Fire Department Repayment Act of 2025

What this bill does

  • This bill requires federal agencies to create standard procedures for sharing wildfire suppression costs between governments.
  • It affects federal agencies, state and local governments, and fire departments involved in cross-jurisdiction fire response.
  • Agencies must establish payment timelines and review existing agreements within one year of the bill's passage.

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  1. 01

    How should wildfire suppression costs be fairly divided between federal agencies and state or local governments when fires cross jurisdictional boundaries?

  2. 02

    What happens to fire departments and communities that cannot afford their share of suppression costs under standardized federal payment procedures?

  3. 03

    Which federal agencies and states currently have cost-sharing disputes over wildfire response that this bill aims to resolve?

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Josh Harder

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Introduced 2025-07-23

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Legislative timeline

  1. 2025-07-23 · house · Committee

    Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.

  2. 2025-07-23 · house · Committee

    Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held

  3. 2025-02-14 · house · Committee

    Referred to the Subcommittee on Forestry and Horticulture.

  4. 2025-01-13 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Armed Services, and Science, Space, and Technology, 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.

  5. 2025-01-13 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Armed Services, and Science, Space, and Technology, 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.

  6. 2025-01-13 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Armed Services, and Science, Space, and Technology, 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.

  7. 2025-01-13 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Armed Services, and Science, Space, and Technology, 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.

  8. 2025-01-13 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

  9. 2025-01-13 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

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