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Fix Our Forests Act

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Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Latest action 2025-03-06 · Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Subcommittee on Conservation, Forestry, Natural Resources, and Biotechnology. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 119-27. · showing text version Engrossed in House of 2025-01-23T05:00:00Z

Sponsor

Rep. Westerman, Bruce [R-AR-4] (R-AR)

56 cosponsors

Recent actions

• 2025-03-06 — Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Subcommittee on Conservation, Forestry, Natural Resources, and Biotechnology. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 119-27.
• 2025-01-28 — Received in the Senate.
• 2025-01-23 — The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.
• 2025-01-23 — The Speaker designated the Honorable Dale W. Strong to act as Chairman of the Committee.
• 2025-01-23 — The House rose from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union to report H.R. 471.
• 2025-01-23 — The House adopted the amendments en gros as agreed to by the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.
• 2025-01-23 — Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 471 and S. 5. The resolution provides for consideration of H.R. 471 under a structured rule with one hour of general debate and one motion to recommit. Also, the resolution provides for consideration of S. 5 under a closed rule with one hour of general debate and one motion to commit.
• 2025-01-23 — Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 279 - 141 (Roll no. 25). (text: CR H321-333)
• 2025-01-23 — POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on H.R. 471, the Chair put the question on passage of the bill and by voice vote, announced that the ayes had prevailed. Mr. Peters demanded the yeas and nays and the Chair postponed further proceedings until a time to be announced.
• 2025-01-23 — On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 279 - 141 (Roll no. 25). (text: CR H321-333)

Subjects

• Administrative law and regulatory procedures
• Agricultural practices and innovations
• Alternative and renewable resources
• Building construction
• California
• Climate change and greenhouse gases
• Community life and organization
• Computers and information technology
• Congressional oversight
• Data collection, sharing, protection
• Department of Agriculture
• Department of the Interior
• Ecology
• Emergency planning and evacuation
• Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
• Executive agency funding and structure
• Federal officials
• Fires
• First responders and emergency personnel
• Forests, forestry, trees
• Geography and mapping
• Government information and archives
• Government studies and investigations
• Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
• Horticulture and plants
• Indian lands and resources rights
• Intergovernmental relations
• Internet, web applications, social media
• Judicial procedure and administration
• Judicial review and appeals
• Land use and conservation
• Licensing and registrations
• Motor fuels
• Nevada
• Public contracts and procurement
• Public participation and lobbying
• Public-private cooperation
• Research and development
• Roads and highways
• Rural conditions and development
• Soil pollution
• State and local finance
• State and local government operations
• Supply chain
• Technology transfer and commercialization
• Water use and supply
• Watersheds
• Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats
• Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Related bills

• The White Oak Resilience Act
• Ensuring Casualty Assistance for our Firefighters Act
• FIR Act
• Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 471) to expedite under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and improve forest management activities on National Forest System lands, on public lands under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management, and on Tribal lands to return resilience to overgrown, fire-prone forested lands, and for other purposes, and providing for consideration of the bill (S. 5) to require the Secretary of Homeland Security to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes.

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