House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Committee action
BRUSH Fires Act
Official title: To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out a study with respect to the effectiveness of available wildfire mitigation methods in reducing the risk of wildfire and the severity of damages from wildfire in communities within or adjacent to shrubland ecosystems, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Dave Min D-CAWhere it went
- IntroducedMay 21, 2025
- Committee actionMar 5, 2026
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Mar 5, 2026 — Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3553.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 3553, BRUSH Fires Act” on March 27, 2026. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Natural Resources on March 5, 2026”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, March 27, 2026 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/62282
- CBO publication date
- March 27, 2026
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3553, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/3553
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 25, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 12, 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 Mr. MIN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 86, May 21, 2025, Page H2362):Article I, Section 8, Clause 18.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 21, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 32 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3553, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/3553
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 25, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 12, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of August 25, 2026). Not every bill gets one.
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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
14 cosponsors — 2 Republicans, 12 Democrats
2 of 14 cosponsors (14%) are from the other party.
Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ), Julia Brownley (D-CA), Ed Case (D-HI), Judy Chu (D-CA), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Josh Harder (D-CA), Jared Huffman (D-CA), Sara Jacobs (D-CA), Young Kim (R-CA), Mike Levin (D-CA), Joe Neguse (D-CO), Jimmy Panetta (D-CA), Luz Rivas (D-CA), George Whitesides (D-CA).
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Related bills
- H.R. 7567 (119th) Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026Related bill
- H.R. 10061 (119th) Wildfire Response and Readiness ActRelated bill
Relationships as recorded by Congress.gov.
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 25, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.