House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Wildfire Response and Preparedness Act of 2025
Official title: To require the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to establish a standard for the response time to wildfire incidents, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Young Kim R-CAWhere it went
- IntroducedJun 17, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jan 14, 2026 — Subcommittee Hearings Held
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4038.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mrs. KIM, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 104, June 17, 2025, Page H2832):Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3 of the Constitution of the United StatesSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 17, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 71 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4038, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/4038
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- January 15, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.
Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of January 15, 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
2 cosponsors — 2 Democrats
2 of 2 cosponsors (100%) are from the other party.
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Young Kim.
- H.R. 7037 (119th) Developing Overseas Mineral Investments and New Allied Networks for Critical Energies Act
- H.R. 2635 (119th) Uyghur Policy Act of 2025
- H.R. 3350 (119th) To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 340 East 1st Street in Tustin, California, as the "Ursula Ellen…
- H.R. 1479 (119th) Hotel Fees Transparency Act of 2025
- H.R. 4233 (119th) ARMOR Act
- H.R. 2201 (119th) Improving VA Training for Military Sexual Trauma Claims Act
Related bills
Relationships as recorded by Congress.gov.
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 13, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.