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- Senate Introduced Jan 21, 2025
- Senate Passed Apr 8, 2025
- House Passed Jun 3, 2025
- President To the President Jun 10, 2025
- President Signed Jun 12, 2025
- Law Jun 12, 2025
This act reauthorizes the Department of Defense to sell its excess aircraft and aircraft parts that are acceptable for commercial sale for wildfire suppression purposes. Such authority begins June 12, 2025, and ends October 1, 2035.
What it does: CRS summary · Public Law · Jun 12, 2025
Aerial Firefighting Enhancement Act of 2025
This act reauthorizes the Department of Defense to sell its excess aircraft and aircraft parts that are acceptable for commercial sale for wildfire suppression purposes. Such authority begins June 12, 2025, and ends October 1, 2035.
The act also provides that such aircraft may be used to deliver water by air in order to suppress wildfire (the previous authority only provided for the delivery of fire retardant).
The act removes the previous limitation on providing international wildfire suppression assistance with such purchased aircraft.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov
About this bill and sources
Official title: Aerial Firefighting Enhancement Act of 2025
Latest action (Jun 12, 2025): Became Public Law No: 119-18.
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security · Origin: Senate · Introduced: Jan 21, 2025
Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)
- Senate Introduced Jan 21, 2025
- Senate Passed Apr 8, 2025
- House Passed Jun 3, 2025
- President To the President Jun 10, 2025
- President Signed Jun 12, 2025
- Law Jun 12, 2025
No recorded floor vote found.