Content Details
H.R. 8557 (IH) - National Prescribed Fire Act of 2024
- Category
- Bills and Statutes
- Collection
- Congressional Bills
- SuDoc Class Number
- Y 1.6:
Y 1.4/6:
- Congress Number
- 118th Congress
- Congress Session
- 2nd Session
- Last Action Date Listed
- May 23, 2024
- Action
- Ms. Schrier (for herself and Mr. Valadao) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Oversight and Accountability, and the Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
- Bill Number
- H.R. 8557
- Bill Version
- Introduced in House (IH)
- Short Title
- National Prescribed Fire Act of 2024
- Full Title
- To direct the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to encourage and expand the use of prescribed fire on land managed by the Department of the Interior or the Forest Service, with an emphasis on units of the National Forest System in the western United States, to acknowledge and support the long-standing use of cultural burning by Tribes and Indigenous practitioners, and for other purposes.
- Sponsors
- Kim Schrier(WA)
- Cosponsors
- David G. Valadao (CA)
- Committees
- Committee on Agriculture (Standing), Committee on the Budget (Standing), Committee on Oversight and Accountability (Standing), Committee on Natural Resources (Standing)
- Public and Private Law References
- Public Law 117-58
- United States Code References
- 2 U.S.C. 901(b)(2)(F)(ii)(II)
5 U.S.C. 5545
7 U.S.C. 1010et seq.
16 U.S.C. 1531 and 1609
25 U.S.C. 5321et seq.
28 U.S.C. 2672
31 U.S.C. 1105(a)
42 U.S.C. 4321, 7401, 7409, 7410 and 7418
43 U.S.C. 1702
- Statutes at Large Reference
- 135 Stat. 429