2023-2024 Regular SessionUS Congress Legislature

HB1586: Forest Protection and Wildland Firefighter Safety Act of 2023

Legislative Summary

To allow the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to use a fire retardant, chemical, or water for fire suppression, control, or prevention activities.

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Bill History

3/14/2023
Introduced in House
House of Representatives
3/14/2023
Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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.
House of Representatives
3/15/2023
Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
House of Representatives
3/22/2023
Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
House of Representatives
3/23/2023
Subcommittee Hearings Held.
House of Representatives
4/5/2023
Referred to the Subcommittee on Forestry.
House of Representatives
5/17/2023
Subcommittee on Federal Lands Discharged.
House of Representatives
5/17/2023
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
House of Representatives
5/17/2023
Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 22 - 17.
House of Representatives
11/15/2023
Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment Discharged
House of Representatives
11/15/2023
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
House of Representatives
11/15/2023
Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute by Voice Vote.
House of Representatives
10/25/2024
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 118-721, Part I.
House of Representatives
12/16/2024
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. H. Rept. 118-721, Part II.
House of Representatives
12/16/2024
Committee on Agriculture discharged.
House of Representatives
12/16/2024
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 723.
House of Representatives