Western Wildfire Support Act of 2025

Introduced Jan 14, 2025Latest action Feb 4, 2026Public Lands and Natural Resources

Plain-English summary

Western Wildfire Support Act of 2025 This bill addresses wildfires by authorizing post-fire recovery activities, supporting adoption of technology, and requiring additional federal coordination. The bill authorizes federal wildfire response and recovery activities by providing statutory authority for Burned Area Emergency Response Teams to coordinate emergency stabilization and erosion planning, and establishing an account to fund federal rehabilitation projects in areas impacted by a wildfire (e. g. , ecosystem restoration, replacing infrastructure critical for land management).

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People and recorded decisions

Sponsors, Cosponsors & House Votes

Tim Sheehy

Cosponsor · Republican · MT

Catherine Cortez Masto

Sponsor · Democratic · NV

No linked House roll-call vote is available yet. Senate votes are not currently synchronized.

Official Subjects

Public Lands and Natural ResourcesComputers and information technologyExecutive agency funding and structureFiresFirst responders and emergency personnelAccounting and auditingAdvanced technology and technological innovationsAdvisory bodiesAppropriationsAtmospheric science and weatherCommunity life and organizationBudget processCongressional oversightDepartment of AgricultureDepartment of the InteriorDisaster relief and insuranceEcologyEmergency planning and evacuationForests, forestry, treesAviation and airports

Action Timeline

Feb 4, 2026

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.

Dec 2, 2025

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 119-237.

Jan 14, 2025

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.

Jan 14, 2025

Introduced in Senate

Sources & text

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