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S. 91119th CongressEmergency Management
Western Wildfire Support Act of 2026
Sponsored by Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) · 1 active : 1 Republican
Latest action: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 629.
Where it standsBefore the Senate9 senators score as swing votes
Hasn’t passed either chamber
- Senate: next
- House: not yet
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govWestern Wildfire Support Act of 2025
This bill addresses wildfires by authorizing post-fire recovery activities, supporting adoption of technology, and requiring additional federal coordination.
The bill authorizes federal wildfire response and recovery activities by
providing statutory authority for Burned Area Emergency Response Teams to coordinate emergency stabilization and erosion planning, and
establishing an account to fund federal rehabilitation projects in areas impacted by a wildfire (e.g., ecosystem restoration, replacing infrastructure critical for land management).
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Additionally, for all hazard types, the bill includes post-disaster assistance in the federal disaster preparedness program and authorizes assistance to states for operating websites to provide information on post-disaster recovery resources.
The bill requires federal agencies to develop and utilize technologies for managing wildfires by
expediting the permitting and use of wildfire detection equipment (e.g., sensors, cameras);
providing funding to Indian tribes for slip-on tanker units that convert vehicles into fire engines;
performing research and development on wildfire response applications of unmanned aircraft systems (e.g., drones);
studying radio communications systems, situational awareness tools, and wildland fire predictive modeling; and
administering a prize competition for technological innovation for managing wildfire-related invasive species.
The bill directs federal agencies to plan and coordinate on wildfire management by
Committees and subjects
Committees
- Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources · SenateReported by · Markup by · Referred to
- Public Lands, Forests, and Mining · SenateHearings by (subcommittee)
Subjects
- Accounting and auditing
- Advanced technology and technological innovations
- Advisory bodies
- Appropriations
- Atmospheric science and weather
- Aviation and airports
- Budget process
- Community life and organization
- Computers and information technology
- Congressional oversight
- Department of Agriculture
- Department of the Interior
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How the Senate breaks down
- 9Swing 70–100
- 60Middle 30–70
- 31Entrenched 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-v2, 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, . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has.
Similar past votes, Senate
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Cosponsors
1 activeShow all 1 cosponsors
- Tim Sheehy (R-MT)
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.
