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HR 435 · in committee · significant

Direct Hire To Fight Fires

What this bill does

  • This bill lets the USDA and Interior Department directly hire wildland firefighters without standard federal hiring procedures.
  • It affects wildland firefighters and the two agencies responsible for fighting forest fires.
  • The bill requires agencies to report annually on hiring needs and vacancies, with no specified cost.

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  1. 01

    How might bypassing standard federal hiring procedures affect the qualifications and diversity of wildland firefighters recruited under this bill?

  2. 02

    What specific barriers in current hiring processes does this bill address, and how would direct hiring improve the agencies' ability to fill vacant firefighting positions?

  3. 03

    Without a specified cost estimate, how should Congress evaluate whether expedited hiring justifies potential trade-offs in the hiring process?

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Sponsor · R-CA-48

Darrell Issa

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Introduced 2026-01-08

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Legislative timeline

  1. 2026-01-08 · house · Committee

    Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 119-432, Part I.

  2. 2026-01-08 · Committee

    Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 119-432, Part I.

  3. 2025-07-15 · house · Committee

    Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent.

  4. 2025-07-15 · house · Committee

    Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held

  5. 2025-04-04 · house · Committee

    Referred to the Subcommittee on Forestry and Horticulture.

  6. 2025-01-15 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, 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.

  7. 2025-01-15 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, 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.

  8. 2025-01-15 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, 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.

  9. 2025-01-15 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

  10. 2025-01-15 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

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