S. 306 · 119th Congress

Fire Ready Nation Act of 2025

Introduced on Jan 29, 2025 by Maria Cantwell (D-WA). 8 cosponsors, 4 of them from another party. Latest action (Sep 11, 2025): Held at the desk.

Stage
Passed one chamber
Introduced
Jan 29, 2025
Cosponsors
8
4 from the other party
Policy area
Science, Technology, Communications
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Progress

The furthest stage the measure reached. Simple and concurrent resolutions do not go to the President.

  1. Introduced
  2. Reported by committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. 4Passed both chambers
  5. 5Sent to the President
  6. 6Became law

Official title

A bill to establish and maintain a coordinated program within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that improves wildfire, fire weather, fire risk, and wildfire smoke related forecasting, detection, modeling, observations, and service delivery, and for other purposes.

Subjects

  • Advanced technology and technological innovations
  • Atmospheric science and weather
  • Computers and information technology
  • Congressional oversight
  • Emergency communications systems
  • Emergency planning and evacuation
  • Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
  • Environmental technology
  • Fires
  • First responders and emergency personnel
  • Forests, forestry, trees
  • Government information and archives
  • Government studies and investigations
  • Intergovernmental relations
  • Research and development
  • State and local government operations

Summary

By the Congressional Research Service (Introduced in Senate, Jan 29, 2025). Public domain.

Fire Ready Nation Act of 2025

This bill provides statutory authority for existing wildfire response services of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and establishes new programs and collaborative efforts to improve fire forecasting and readiness.

Specifically, in addition to other efforts, the bill directs NOAA to

  • establish a coordinated fire weather services program to support readiness for and responsiveness to wildfires, fire weather, smoke, post-fire flooding and debris, and related hazards;
  • develop a digital presence to promote access to and use of the services, tools, data, and information produced by the fire weather services program;
  • establish a fire weather test bed to facilitate the evaluation and implementation of new capabilities, including through research and development on the use of uncrewed aircraft systems (commonly known as drones) to improve data collection;
  • conduct an annual assessment after the close of fire weather season to investigate data gaps and update systems as needed;
  • evaluate and update, as appropriate, the Automated Surface Observing System (the primary surface weather network in the United States) and the system used to rate the risk of wildfire; and
  • establish an Incident Meteorologist Service within the National Weather Service to provide on-site support before, during, and after significant weather-related events.

The bill also exempts federal wildland firefighters, fire management response officials, and accompanying incident meteorologists and management teams from certain premium pay limitations.

Finally, the bill directs the Government Accountability Office to evaluate and report on the implementation of the fire weather services program, among other topics.

Sponsor and cosponsors

Cosponsors by party as of the day they signed on. Original cosponsors signed on the day of introduction.

Maria CantwellD-WASponsor

Democrats · 4

Republicans · 4

Roll calls

Recorded votes on the measure. Most measures move by voice vote or unanimous consent, which record no individual positions.

No recorded roll call on this measure: it moved by voice vote or unanimous consent, or has not reached the floor.

History

Every action as published, oldest first. Roll calls link to how each member voted.

  1. Jan 29, 2025Introduced in Senate
  2. Jan 29, 2025 · SenateRead twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
  3. Feb 4, 2025 · SenateStar Print ordered on the bill.
  4. Feb 5, 2025 · SenateCommittee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
  5. Jul 16, 2025Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Cruz without amendment. With written report No. 119-42.
  6. Jul 16, 2025 · SenateCommittee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Cruz without amendment. With written report No. 119-42.
  7. Jul 16, 2025 · SenatePlaced on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 119.
  8. Sep 10, 2025Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.
  9. Sep 10, 2025 · SenatePassed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S6549-6555; text: CR S6549-6555)
  10. Sep 11, 2025 · SenateMessage on Senate action sent to the House.
  11. Sep 11, 2025 · HouseReceived in the House.
  12. Sep 11, 2025 · HouseHeld at the desk.

Committees

Committees and subcommittees the measure was referred to.

Agencies in its committees' jurisdiction

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Who lobbied on it

Organizations whose lobbying reports (LD-2) name this measure. Spending is what they reported for those quarters on all issues, not on this measure alone.

  1. OroraTech GmbH7 reports
    $280K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: ORORATECH USA INC.$1.8M in contracts, FY2026AI match · 94%
  2. AMERICAN PROPERTY CASUALTY INSURANCE ASSOCIATION6 reports
    $9.4M reported (all issues)
  3. Advanced Environmental Monitoring Holdings (AEMH)6 reports
    $360K reported (all issues)
  4. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANIES6 reports
    $2.8M reported (all issues)
  5. MEGAFIRE ACTION2 reports
  6. AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION1 report
    $10K reported (all issues)

Reports filed in 2025, 2026.

Sources and method

Every figure on this page traces to these records.

  • Bill status: bills and resolutions, sponsors, actions, subjects and CRS summaries (U.S. Government Publishing Office (GovInfo), from Congress.gov (Library of Congress))GovInfo Bill Status bulk data (Congress.gov; summaries by the Congressional Research Service) · data current to Oct 10, 2026 · loaded Oct 10, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Members of Congress, their terms, committees and identifiers (The @unitedstates project (from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress, the House and the Senate))unitedstates/congress-legislators: legislators, committees and current committee membership · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)
  • House roll-call votes (Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives)Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, roll-call vote records · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Senate roll-call votes and DW-NOMINATE scores (Voteview (UCLA Department of Political Science))Lewis, Jeffrey B., Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Adam Boche, Aaron Rudkin, and Luke Sonnet (2026). Voteview: Congressional Roll-Call Votes Database. https://voteview.com/ · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Free to use with the required citation
  • Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives)Clerk of the House, Lobbying Disclosure Act filings (organizations only; lobbyists' names are not loaded) · data current to Oct 10, 2026 · loaded Oct 10, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Positions are shown only where a roll call recorded them; voice votes and unanimous consent record none.
  • Money and votes are shown side by side; neither explains the other.