Requires the Agriculture, Interior, Homeland Security, and Defense secretaries to set standard payment timelines for reciprocal fire suppression cost share agreements with local fire departments.

Official title: Fire Department Repayment Act of 2025

Next stop House floor: awaiting a vote

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House

Introduced 13-JAN-2025

Referred 13-JAN-2025

Approved by committee 23-JUL-2025

Key points

Requires the four secretaries to set standard operating procedures for payment timelines within 1 year after enactment.
Requires existing cost share agreements to be reviewed and modified to match those procedures.
Requires each agreement to align with the cooperative fire protection agreements of the entity it covers.
Requires the federal paying entity to reimburse a local fire department that submits an invoice under cost settlement procedures, and expresses the sense of Congress that repayment should occur as soon as practicable and no later than 1 year after the fire.

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Official CRS summary

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Committee referrals (5)

Policy area

Public Lands and Natural Resources

Sponsor Josh Harder (D-CA) Cosponsors · 10

■ 6 D■ 4 R

6 Democrats

4 Republicans

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