House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Protect Innocent Victims of Taxation After Fire Extension Act
Official title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude qualified wildfire relief payments from gross income, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Doug LaMalfa R-CAWhere it went
- IntroducedSep 9, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 9, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5225.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. LaMALFA, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 147, September 9, 2025, Page H4165):16th AmendmentSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 9, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 14 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5225, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/5225
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 14, 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.
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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
8 cosponsors — 3 Republicans, 5 Democrats
5 of 8 cosponsors (62%) are from the other party.
Cliff Bentz (R-OR), Janelle Bynum (D-OR), Tom McClintock (R-CA), Blake Moore (R-UT), Joe Neguse (D-CO), Brad Sherman (D-CA), Mike Thompson (D-CA), Eugene Vindman (D-VA).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Doug LaMalfa.
- H.R. 2400 (119th) Pit River Land Transfer Act of 2026
- H.J.Res. 78 (119th) Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the United States Fish…
- H.R. 1110 (119th) Grazing for Wildfire Risk Reduction Act
- H.R. 1383 (119th) Secure Rural Schools Reauthorization Act of 2025
- H.R. 1849 (119th) Disaster Mitigation and Tax Parity Act of 2025
- H.R. 2202 (119th) End Taxpayer Funding of Gender Experimentation Act of 2025
Related bills
- H.R. 5366 (119th) Doug LaMalfa Federal Disaster Tax Relief Certainty ActRelated bill
- H.R. 7825 (119th) Doug LaMalfa Protect Innocent Victims of Taxation After Fire Extension ActRelated bill
- S. 2744 (119th) Federal Disaster Tax Relief Act of 2025Related bill
- S. 3372 (119th) Protect Innocent Victims of Taxation After Fire Extension ActRelated bill
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.