Senate Committee Reviews Bill to Fund Wildfire Safety Grants Up to $10M for At-Risk Communities
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Reintroduced
Reintroduced from H.R. 9760 (118th), which died when its Congress ended.
H.R. 9760 (118th) →How this policy affects specific groups of people
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
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Introduced in Senate
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Sens. Tim Sheehy (R-Mont.) and Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) proposed the 'Community Protection and Wildfire Resilience Act,' which would devote $1 billion annually to help communities devise wildfire protection plans including home hardening, early detection, and evacuation planning.
As local cities like Berkeley mandate home fireproofing, federal lawmakers are pushing the Community Protection and Wildfire Resilience Act to provide grants for home hardening and community-scale defensible space, aiming to lower the risk of structure ignition in high-risk zones.
Rep. Jared Huffman has a competing bill, the Community Protection and Wildfire Resilience Act, which centers on financial incentives for communities to write their own fire resilience plans and harden homes, rather than increasing logging on federal lands.
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Document Type
Congressional Bill
Official Title
Community Protection and Wildfire Resilience Act
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