House bill · 118th Congress · Did not become law
Wildfire Technology Demonstration, Evaluation, Modernization, and Optimization Act
Sponsor: Rep. Young Kim R-CAWhere it went
- IntroducedJun 21, 2023
- Committee actionSep 19, 2024
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Dec 18, 2024 — Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 747.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4235.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 4235, Wildfire Technology DEMO Act” on December 5, 2024. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Natural Resources on September 19, 2024”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, December 5, 2024 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61058
- CBO publication date
- December 5, 2024
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4235, 118th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/4235
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- May 27, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 14, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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- Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 118-914 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Natural Resources Committee on December 18, 2024.Source: Congress.gov, reported December 18, 2024 ↗
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- committeeReports
- Report API records
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/118/HRPT/914
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4235, 118th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/4235
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- May 27, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 14, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mrs. KIM of California, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 108, June 21, 2023, Page H3072):Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3 of the Constitution of the United States. The single subject of this legislation is: To establish a wildfire technology testbed pilot program.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 21, 2023 ↗
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- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 173 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4235, 118th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/4235
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- May 27, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 14, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
12 cosponsors — 8 Republicans, 4 Democrats
4 of 12 cosponsors (33%) are from the other party.
Ken Calvert (R-CA), Ed Case (D-HI), Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-OR), Jim Costa (D-CA), Jason Crow (D-CO), John Duarte (R-CA), Josh Harder (D-CA), Darrell Issa (R-CA), Doug Lamborn (R-CO), Michael Lawler (R-NY), James Moylan (R-GU), David Valadao (R-CA).
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Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 15, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.