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HR 3560 · in committee · major

Veteran Wildland Firefighter Employment Act of 2025

What this bill does

  • Creates a two-year pilot program to hire veterans as wildland firefighters.
  • Involves the VA, Agriculture Department, and Interior Department in coordinating veteran employment.
  • Program runs for two years with participating agencies sharing responsibility for implementation.

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  1. 01

    How would the pilot program identify and train veterans with the physical capabilities needed for wildland firefighting work?

  2. 02

    What metrics would measure whether this two-year pilot succeeds, and how would agencies decide to expand or end the program?

  3. 03

    Which federal agencies would bear the primary costs of recruiting, training, and employing veterans through this initiative?

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Joe Neguse

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Introduced 2025-06-06

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Legislative timeline

  1. 2025-06-06 · house · Committee

    Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.

  2. 2025-05-21 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Armed Services, 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.

  3. 2025-05-21 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Armed Services, 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.

  4. 2025-05-21 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Armed Services, 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. 2025-05-21 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Armed Services, 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. 2025-05-21 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

  7. 2025-05-21 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

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