Fire Safe Electrical Corridors Act of 2025
Introduced Mar 31, 2025 by Rep. Salud O. Carbajal
The House passed it. The Senate has to pass it before it can reach the President.
This bill allows the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to expedite the removal of trees or other vegetation near electrical lines on their lands under certain circumstances. Specifically, the Forest Service and the BLM may include in special use permits or easements provided to electrical utilities permission to cut, remove, and sell trees or other vegetation near electrical lines on such lands without a separate timber sale if the cutting or removal is consistent with (1) any applicable land and resource management plan, and (2) other applicable environmental laws.
A special use permit or easement that includes permission for cutting and removal of trees or vegetation must include a requirement that, if the applicable electrical utility sells any portion of the material removed under the permit or easement, the utility must provide to the Forest Service or the BLM any proceeds received from the sale, less any transportation costs incurred in the sale.
Summary by the Congressional Research Service.
No recorded roll-call vote on this bill — it may have passed by voice vote or unanimous consent, which don't record individual votes.
- May 14, 2025Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
- May 13, 2025Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- May 13, 2025On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H1983)
- May 13, 2025Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H1983)
- May 13, 2025DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 2492.
- May 13, 2025Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H1983-1984)
- May 13, 2025Mr. Westerman moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
- Apr 18, 2025Referred to the Subcommittee on Forestry and Horticulture.
- Mar 31, 2025Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
- Mar 31, 2025Introduced in House