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Veteran Wildland Firefighter Employment Act of 2025
To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out a pilot program to employ veterans in certain wildland firefighting activities.
- Introduced
- Committee
- Passed House
- Passed Senate
- To President
- Became law
Summary
Veteran Wildland Firefighter Employment Act of 2025
This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Agriculture, and Department of the Interior to jointly establish a two-year pilot program to employ veterans in wildland firefighting activities.
Summary by the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress.
Actions
- Jun 6, 2025 Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
- May 21, 2025 Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Armed Services, 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.
- May 21, 2025 Introduced in House
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