HR8688-119

In Committee

Forest Health and Wildfire Risk Reduction Act

119th Congress Introduced May 7, 2026

Analysis under review: This bill has generated analysis that may be too generic or incomplete. Clause-level evidence remains available below.

Summary

What This Bill Does

This bill, Forest Health and Wildfire Risk Reduction Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting environmental regulators and natural-resource users. The main policy domain is Environment, Transportation, Energy.

Who Benefits and How

environmental regulators and natural-resource users may benefit from new authority, funding, eligibility, regulatory clarity, or reduced risk created by the bill.

Who Bears the Burden and How

federal implementing agencies, environmental regulators and natural-resource users may take on implementation duties, reporting obligations, compliance costs, or oversight responsibilities.

Key Provisions

  • Section HCD47E0C215424B02BEAC62B907C326F0: 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Forest Health and Wildfire Risk Reduction Act.
  • Section HC19AA09CB3384EF6A8279192EDFFF3B9: 2. Codification of categorical exclusion Tree density modification activities described in subsection (b) are a category of actions hereby designated as being...

Evidence Chain:

This summary is generated from the full bill text using AI analysis. Expand "Detailed Analysis" below for identified beneficiaries/burden bearers with clause-level evidence links.

At a Glance

What This Bill Does

This bill, Forest Health and Wildfire Risk Reduction Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting environmental regulators and natural-resource users.

Key Policy Areas

Environment, Transportation, Energy

Primary Purpose

This bill, Forest Health and Wildfire Risk Reduction Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting environmental regulators and natural-resource users.

Policy Domains

Environment Transportation Energy

Whole bill

Identified Gains
  • environmental regulators and natural-resource users
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environmental regulators and natural-resource users:
Identified Costs
  • federal implementing agencies
  • environmental regulators and natural-resource users
Model: codex-gpt-5 | Version: bill_summary_v2 | Source: ih
federal implementing agencies:
environmental regulators and natural-resource users:

Legislative Progress

In Committee
Introduced Committee Passed
May 21, 2026

Subcommittee Hearings Held

May 12, 2026

Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.

May 7, 2026

Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.

May 7, 2026

Introduced in House

May 7, 2026

Mr. Hurd of Colorado (for himself and Mr. Newhouse) introduced …

Impact analysis is available but no clear stakeholder effects identified. View clause-level analysis →

Bill Structure & Actor Mappings

Who is "The Secretary" in each section?

Domains
Environment Transportation Energy
Actor Mappings
"the_commission"
→ The commission identified in the operative section

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