S 160enacted119th Congress

Aerial Firefighting Enhancement Act of 2025

Introduced Jan 21, 2025Senate billPolicy area: Armed Forces and National SecurityLast action Jun 12, 2025Sponsor: Tim Sheehy(R-MT)

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Armed Services Committee

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Official summaryUpdated Jun 12, 2025

What the bill does

Aerial Firefighting Enhancement Act of 2025 This act reauthorizes the Department of Defense to sell its excess aircraft and aircraft parts that are acceptable for commercial sale for wildfire suppression purposes. Such authority begins June 12, 2025, and ends October 1, 2035. The act also provides that such aircraft may be used to deliver water by air in order to suppress wildfire (the previous authority only provided for the delivery of fire retardant). The act removes the previous limitation on providing international wildfire suppression assistance with such purchased aircraft.

Latest official action

Became Public Law No: 119-18.

Lobbying Filings Citing It

$3.3M

Reported on Those Filings, All Issues

Lobbying Clients

Recorded Votes

Timeline

Jan 21, 2025bill

Bill introduced

Apr 16, 2025lobbying

Lobbying filed by PERIMETER SOLUTIONS

Apr 21, 2025lobbying

Lobbying filed by AMERICAN PROPERTY CASUALTY INSURANCE ASSOCIATION

Jul 15, 2025lobbying

Lobbying filed by PERIMETER SOLUTIONS

Jul 20, 2025lobbying

Lobbying filed by QUANTA SERVICES, INC.

Jul 21, 2025lobbying

Official Congressional Actions

Jun 12, 2025President

Signed by President.

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Jun 12, 2025President

Became Public Law No: 119-18.

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Jun 12, 2025BecameLaw

Became Public Law No: 119-18.

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Jun 12, 2025BecameLaw

Signed by President.

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Jun 10, 2025Floor

Presented to President.

Lobbying Activity

Registrant	Client	Amount	Filed	Period	Issues
AMERICAN PROPERTY CASUALTY INSURANCE ASSOCIATION FKA PROPERTY CASUALTY INSURERS ASSOC. OF AMERICA	AMERICAN PROPERTY CASUALTY INSURANCE ASSOCIATION	$1.7M	Jul 21, 2025	2025Q2	TORMMMAUT
AMERICAN PROPERTY CASUALTY INSURANCE ASSOCIATION FKA PROPERTY CASUALTY INSURERS ASSOC. OF AMERICA	AMERICAN PROPERTY CASUALTY INSURANCE ASSOCIATION	$1.3M	Apr 21, 2025	2025Q1	ALC

About this page

The lobbying table lists Senate LDA quarterly reports (LD-2) that cite this bill by number and cover a quarter of the 119th Congress. An LD-2 names a bill as “H.R. 1234” with no Congress, so a report on another Congress, which can only concern a different bill with the same number, is left out, even when it was filed after this Congress began. The amount is what the registrant reported for the whole filing, across every issue on it, not spending on this bill. Official actions and the bill summary come from Congress.gov, and votes from the roll-call record. This page no longer pairs the bill with members' stock trades: matching lobbying clients to traded companies by name, and trades to a bill by date, is not something the records establish.