HR 5560 United States House · 117th Congress

Military Support for Fighting Wildfires Act

Summary

Military Support for Fighting Wildfires Act This bill addresses the role of the Department of Defense (DOD) in wildfire emergency response, including by authorizing DOD to implement the FireGuard Program to aggregate, analyze, and assess multi-source remote sensing information for interagency partnerships in the detection and monitoring of wildfires.

Issues: ✓ Environment

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Oct 2021

Committee Review

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President

Introduced Oct 12, 2021 Last action Oct 22, 2021

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Committee

Oct 22, 2021

Committee

Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.

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Oct 13, 2021

Committee

Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.

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Oct 13, 2021

Committee

Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.

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Oct 12, 2021

Committee

Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Intelligence (Permanent Select), 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.

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Oct 12, 2021

Introduced

Introduced in House

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1 primary · 2 co-sponsors