Aerial Firefighting Enhancement Act of 2025 has not moved since its introduction on Feb 4, 2025, with cosponsors split almost evenly between the parties
IntroducedFeb 4, 2025
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What it changes · CRS summary
Written by the Congressional Research Service [2]. 89 words.
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.
Context
- Committees
- House Agriculture Committee
House Armed Services Committee
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee - Policy area
- Armed Forces and National Security: 268 of 6,567 bills became law, 113th–118th (4.1%)
- Sponsor
- 1 of 103 bills enacted since 2013
- Text versions
- 1: introduced in house · 190 words
- Subjects
- Aviation and airportsFiresForests, forestry, treesMilitary assistance, sales, and agreements
- Latest action
- Mar 7, 2025: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forestry and Horticulture.
- Records
- Congress.gov · Bill text
Exhibit 1Passage odds band at each stage, rated when the bill reached it [4]
Related bills · 1
Each bill appears once, under its strongest link. 1 in all.
Identical or companion · 1
- 119th S. 160 Aerial Firefighting Enhancement Act of 2025 R · Law
Exhibit 2Articles naming the bill per day, last 90 days, US sources [3]