Healthy Lungs for Heroes Act of 2025
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Summary
What This Bill Does
Requires federal officials to develop a strategy and determine appropriate respiratory protective equipment for wildland firefighters exposed to excessive smoke.
Who Benefits and How
Wildland firefighters and support staff could receive better respiratory protection standards and equipment planning for dangerous smoke exposure.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Agriculture and Interior officials would have to coordinate, determine equipment standards, and build a deployment strategy around smoke-exposure thresholds.
Key Provisions
- Defines covered permissible exposure limits and relevant agency actors.
- Requires a strategy within one year to make appropriate respiratory PPE commercially available for high-smoke settings.
- Requires determination of suitable respiratory PPE for wildland firefighters and support staff.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Requires federal officials to develop a strategy and determine appropriate respiratory protective equipment for wildland firefighters exposed to excessive smoke.
Key Policy Areas
Environment, Labor, Government Operations
Primary Purpose
Requires federal officials to develop a strategy and determine appropriate respiratory protective equipment for wildland firefighters exposed to excessive smoke.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Wildland firefighters and support staff receiving improved respiratory protection planning
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Agriculture and Interior officials coordinating and implementing the strategy
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMr. Schiff (for himself, Mr. Curtis, Mr. Sheehy, and Mr. …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, …
Introduced in Senate
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Wildland firefighters and support staff receiving improved respiratory protection planning
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
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