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H.R. 1045119th CongressPublic Lands and Natural Resources
Utah Wildfire Research Institute Act of 2025
Sponsored by Rep. Mike Kennedy (R-UT) · 3 active : 3 Republicans
Latest action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Where it standsPassed House, now in the Senate11 senators score as swing votes
Passed House
- House: passedDec 15, 2025
- Senate: next
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govUtah Wildfire Research Institute Act of 2025
This bill requires the establishment of a Southwest Ecological Restoration Institute in Utah. Such institutes currently exist in Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado and promote the use of adaptive ecosystem management to reduce the risk of wildfires and restore the health of forest and woodland ecosystems.
Committees and subjects
Committees
- House Committee on Agriculture · HouseDischarged from · Referred to
- House Committee on Natural Resources · HouseReported by · Markup by · Discharged from · Referred to
- Forestry and Horticulture · HouseReferred to
- Federal Lands · HouseHearings by (subcommittee) · Referred to
- Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources · SenateReferred to
Subjects
- Ecology
- Fires
- Forests, forestry, trees
- Higher education
- Research administration and funding
- Utah
Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
How the Senate breaks down
- 11Swing 70–100
- 70Middle 30–70
- 19Entrenched 0–30
Members fall into . All 100 senators have enough data to score.
Key players in the Senate
Ranked by swing score, 0–100 · swing-v3, directional: only movement toward the other party counts, so members who sit further from the center than their party no longer score as swing votes.
Bars show each input from 0 to 100: ideology gap, scorecard gap, , and the . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has.
Similar past votes, Senate
Earlier behind swing-v3’s inputLoading similar votes
Cosponsors
3 activeShow all 3 cosponsors
- Blake D. Moore (R-UT-1)
- Burgess Owens (R-UT-4)
- Celeste Maloy (R-UT-2)
How the swing score works
Ideology gapHow far a member’s DW-NOMINATE voting score sits from their party’s median in the same chamber.
Scorecard gapHow far their Heritage Action and LCV ratings stray from their party’s average, using the groups’ votes on similar bills where available.
Cross-pressureHow strongly their district or state leans toward the other party, from our own computed partisan lean.
Similar votesHow often they voted against their own party on earlier roll calls about this bill or similar ones.
Committee bonusMembers of the committees handling the bill decide whether it moves, so they get a boost.
Cosponsor checkThe sponsor and active cosponsors have already committed, so they drop toward entrenched.
