Post-Disaster Reforestation and Restoration Act
Introduced Jan 16, 2025 by Rep. Brittany Pettersen
The House passed it. The Senate has to pass it before it can reach the President.
This bill directs the Department of the Interior to carry out a program for post-disaster reforestation and restoration.
Interior must identify covered lands requiring reforestation and restoration following unplanned disturbances that are unlikely to experience natural regeneration without assistance. Covered land means (1) any federal land or interest in land administered by the National Park Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the Bureau of Reclamation, the Forest Service, or the Bureau of Indian Affairs; and (2) any Indian Forest Land or Rangeland.
Interior must propose a list that prioritizes projects for reforestation and restoration for each fiscal year. Interior may (1) carry out priority projects through grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements; and (2) support any grant contract or cooperative agreement that may be necessary to ensure adequate and appropriate seed and seedling availability to further the objectives of priority projects.
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.
- Mar 17, 2026Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
- Mar 16, 2026Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- Mar 16, 2026On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2524)
- Mar 16, 2026Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2524)
- Mar 16, 2026DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 528.
- Mar 16, 2026Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H2524-2525)
- Mar 16, 2026Mr. Wittman moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
- Sep 15, 2025Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 232.
- Sep 15, 2025Committee on Agriculture discharged.
- Sep 15, 2025Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 119-276, Part I.
- Jul 23, 2025Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent.
- Jul 23, 2025Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- Jul 23, 2025Subcommittee on Federal Lands Discharged
- Apr 29, 2025Subcommittee Hearings Held
- Apr 23, 2025Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
- Jan 16, 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.
- Jan 16, 2025Introduced in House