House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Committee action
Ensuring Casualty Assistance for our Firefighters Act
Official title: To direct the Secretary of the Interior to develop a Wildland Fire Management Casualty Assistance Program, and for other purposes.
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJul 23, 2025
- Committee actionFeb 11, 2026
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Feb 11, 2026 — Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4671.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. HARDER of California, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 126, July 23, 2025, Page H3648):Article 1, Section 8 of the ConstitutionSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 23, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 40 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4671, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/4671
- 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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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 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
3 cosponsors — 2 Republicans, 1 Democrat
2 of 3 cosponsors (67%) are from the other party.
Ami Bera (D-CA), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Scott Franklin (R-FL).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Josh Harder.
- H.R. 776 (119th) Nutria Eradication and Control Reauthorization Act of 2025
- H.R. 345 (119th) Fire Department Repayment Act of 2025
- H.R. 2910 (119th) Youth Workforce Readiness Act of 2025
- H.R. 4852 (119th) Wildfire Emergency Preparedness Act of 2025
- H.R. 914 (119th) American CANS Act
- H.R. 8750 (119th) COPS Reauthorization Act of 2026
Related bills
- H.R. 471 (119th) Fix Our Forests ActRelated bill
- H.R. 10061 (119th) Wildfire Response and Readiness ActRelated bill
- H.R. 1923 (119th) Modernizing Wildfire Safety and Prevention Act of 2025Related bill
- H.R. 743 (119th) Tim’s 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.