Preventing HEAT Illness and Deaths Act of 2025
Summary
What This Bill Does
The bill creates congressional findings establishing the factual basis for action on extreme heat, documenting that heat is the leading cause of weather-related death in the U.S., disproportionately affects communities of color, establishes an interagency committee within NOAA comprising representatives from 15+ federal agencies to coordinate heat-health activities across timescales, develop a 5-year strategic plan, conduct community, and establishes the National Integrated Heat Health Information System (NIHHIS) within NOAA to deliver heat data, forecasts, decision support tools, and grants to centers of excellence, with a Director overseeing. It relies on compliance mandates, reporting requirements, grants, and appropriations. The main policy areas are Public Health, Education, Social Welfare, and Housing.
Who Benefits and How
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine could gain revenue opportunities, NOAA and federal heat-health programs could gain revenue opportunities, and Community heat resilience grant recipients could gain revenue opportunities.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Federal budget could face higher costs, NOAA and 15+ federal agencies on the interagency committee would take on compliance duties, and NOAA would take on compliance duties.
Key Provisions
- Creates congressional findings establishing the factual basis for action on extreme heat, documenting that heat is the leading cause of weather-related death in the U.S., disproportionately affects communities of color...
- Establishes an interagency committee within NOAA comprising representatives from 15+ federal agencies to coordinate heat-health activities across timescales, develop a 5-year strategic plan, conduct community...
- Establishes the National Integrated Heat Health Information System (NIHHIS) within NOAA to deliver heat data, forecasts, decision support tools, and grants to centers of excellence, with a Director overseeing...
- Directs NOAA to contract with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine for a 3-year study on extreme heat policy, research, data, and communication gaps, including assessment of discontinued federal...
- Creates a community heat resilience program providing grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements to nonprofits, states, tribes, local governments, academic institutions, and workforce boards for projects including...
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
The bill creates congressional findings establishing the factual basis for action on extreme heat, documenting that heat is the leading cause of weather-related death in the U.S., disproportionately affects communities of color, establishes an interagency committee within NOAA comprising representatives from 15+ federal agencies to coordinate heat-health activities across timescales, develop a 5-year strategic plan, conduct community, and establishes the National Integrated Heat Health Information System (NIHHIS) within NOAA to deliver heat data, forecasts, decision support tools, and grants to centers of excellence, with a Director overseeing.
Key Policy Areas
Public Health, Education, Social Welfare, Housing
Primary Purpose
The bill creates congressional findings establishing the factual basis for action on extreme heat, documenting that heat is the leading cause of weather-related death in the U.S., disproportionately affects communities of color, establishes an interagency committee within NOAA comprising representatives from 15+ federal agencies to coordinate heat-health activities across timescales, develop a 5-year strategic plan, conduct community, and establishes the National Integrated Heat Health Information System (NIHHIS) within NOAA to deliver heat data, forecasts, decision support tools, and grants to centers of excellence, with a Director overseeing.
Policy Domains
Preventing HEAT Illness and Deaths Act of 2025
Identified Gains
- National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
- NOAA and federal heat-health programs
- Community heat resilience grant recipients
- Urban forestry and green infrastructure companies
- Environmental justice communities
Identified Costs
- Federal budget
- NOAA and 15+ federal agencies on the interagency committee
- NOAA
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMs. Bonamici (for herself, Ms. Castor of Florida, Mr. Nadler, …
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in …
Introduced in House
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Communities with environmental justice concerns, Environmental justice communities, Federal budget
Positive-direction: Communities with environmental justice concerns, Environmental justice communities
Negative-direction: Federal budget, NOAA
Climate and health research institutions and centers of excellence, Climate and heat-health researchers, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
HVAC and air conditioning equipment manufacturers
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "the_director"
- → Director of the National Integrated Heat Health Information System
- "the_committee"
- → National Integrated Heat Health Information System Interagency Committee
- "the_administrator"
- → Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
- "the_under_secretary"
- → Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
An occurrence of extreme heat of 2 days or more that may have heat-health implications
Heat that substantially exceeds local climatological norms in terms of duration, intensity, season length, or frequency
The phenomenon in urbanized areas where heat is more extreme than surrounding exurban areas due to low albedo surfaces, low vegetation coverage, and waste heat
A community with significant representation of communities of color, low-income communities, or Tribal and indigenous communities, that experiences or is at risk of higher adverse health or environmental effects
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