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HR4990Referred to Committee

Wildfire Grid Resiliency Act

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Introduced
In Committee
3
Passed One Chamber
4
Passed Both
5
Signed into Law
119th
Congress
2025-08-15
Introduced
0
Cosponsors
HR
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Type

Sponsor

Norma J. Torres
Norma J. Torres
Democrat · CA · Representative
Votes with party: 97.6% (546 recorded votes)

Full profile: /officials/T000474

Source: Congress.gov · FEC

Cosponsors (0)

Members who have signed on to support this bill since introduction. Source: Congress.gov.

No cosponsors on record. Bills can pass without cosponsors — this often means the sponsor introduced the bill alone, either because it's a messaging bill, a chairman's mark, or simply early in the legislative cycle.

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Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.

2025-08-15

Source: Congress.gov

Committee Activity

Currently in

  • House Committee on Science, Space, and TechnologyReferred To · 2025-08-15

Previously

  • Science, Space, and Technology CommitteeReferred To · 2025-08-15

Plain-English Summary

Wildfire Grid Resiliency Act This bill requires the Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response of the Department of Energy (DOE) to carry out a Resilience Accelerator Demonstration Program. Under the program, the office must make awards to DOE's National Laboratories for projects that demonstrate innovative technologies to improve the electric grid's resilience to wildfires, such as technologies for monitoring vegetation management or enhancing the safety of first responders who respond to electric grid emergencies.

Plain-English rewrite of the Congressional Research Service summary published on Congress.gov. Cached and reviewed.

Subjects

Energy
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Open text viewRead on Congress.gov

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Bills by the same sponsor or covering overlapping subjects.

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    Referred to Committee · 2026-05-14
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