House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Wildland Firefighter Paycheck Protection Act of 2025
Official title: To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide for special base rates of pay for wildland firefighters, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Joe Neguse D-COWhere it went
- IntroducedMar 6, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Mar 28, 2025 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Forestry and Horticulture.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1943.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. NEGUSE, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 43, March 6, 2025, Page H1040):Article I, Section 8Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 6, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 20 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 1943, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/1943
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 19, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 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
15 cosponsors — 8 Republicans, 7 Democrats
8 of 15 cosponsors (53%) are from the other party.
Don Bacon (R-NE), Jack Bergman (R-MI), Robert Bresnahan (R-PA), Juan Ciscomani (R-AZ), Gerald Connolly (D-VA), Jim Costa (D-CA), Debbie Dingell (D-MI), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Josh Harder (D-CA), Young Kim (R-CA), Michael Lawler (R-NY), Susie Lee (D-NV), David Valadao (R-CA), Gabe Vasquez (D-NM), George Whitesides (D-CA).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Joe Neguse.
- H.R. 3922 (119th) Cross-Boundary Wildfire Solutions Act
- H.R. 1729 (119th) Bolts Ditch Act
- H.Res. 22 (119th) Electing Members to certain standing committees of the House of Representatives.
- H.R. 744 (119th) Disaster Management Costs Modernization Act
- H.R. 3924 (119th) Wildfire Risk Evaluation Act
- H.J.Res. 122 (119th) Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to the authority of Congress and the States to regulate…
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