House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Wildfire Response Modernization Act
Official title: To direct the Secretary of the Air Force to procure space-based commercial data and end products to support the efforts of the Department of Defense and the wildfire mission of the United States Northern Command.
Sponsor: Rep. George Whitesides D-CAWhere it went
- IntroducedJun 29, 2026
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
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- Became law—
Latest action: Jun 29, 2026 — Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 9534.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. WHITESIDES, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 172, No. 108, June 29, 2026, Page H4317):U.S. Constitution, Article 1, Sec. 8Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 29, 2026 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 36 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 9534, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/9534
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- October 10, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- October 10, 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
12 cosponsors — 2 Republicans, 10 Democrats
2 of 12 cosponsors (17%) are from the other party.
Ami Bera (D-CA), Julia Brownley (D-CA), Salud Carbajal (D-CA), Jim Costa (D-CA), Jason Crow (D-CO), Vince Fong (R-CA), John Garamendi (D-CA), Lance Gooden (R-TX), Sara Jacobs (D-CA), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Kevin Mullin (D-CA), Brad Sherman (D-CA).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. George Whitesides.
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- H.R. 5615 (119th) To amend title 32, United States Code, to establish the FireGuard Program as a program of record of the National Guard.
- H.Res. 1557 (119th) Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the rollout of Space Shuttle Enterprise from the Rockwell International plant in Palmdale, California.
- H.R. 10719 (119th) Protecting Kids from Human-Like Chatbots Act
- H.R. 5416 (119th) Contract Postal Unit Transparency Act
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