# 119-hr-6387: FIRE Act

119-hr-6387, FIRE Act, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Evans, Gabe [R-CO-8] (R-CO); status passed_house (as of 2026-09-21).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-hr-6387
- Congress: 119
- Title: FIRE Act
- Status: passed_house
- Introduced: 2025-12-03
- Sponsor: Rep. Evans, Gabe [R-CO-8] (R-CO)
- Cosponsors: 3
- Policy area: Environmental Protection
- Touches household money: no
- Last recorded action: 2026-09-21

## Summary

**Improving how wildfire and prescribed‑burn air quality data are treated in federal air‑quality decisions.** The bill expands and reorganizes the Clean Air Act's rules on "exceptional events" to include actions to mitigate wildfire risk and adds clearer criteria and procedures for when monitoring data can be considered or excluded from regulatory determinations. - State governors get an expanded petition route to ask the EPA to exclude monitoring data directly caused by an exceptional event or a wildfire‑mitigation action from decisions like area exceedances, designations, attainment findings, attainment date extensions, State implementation plan adequacy, and certain preconstruction demonstrations. - The EPA Administrator must apply a clear causal‑relationship test, run regional modeling and analysis when multiple States are involved, and publish a public petition status website within 12 months with monthly updates. - The bill broadens the definition of "exceptional event" to cover natural events, certain human activities that mirror natural events, and specified wildfire‑risk mitigation actions such as prescribed fires, while excluding ordinary stagnation, inversions, and pollution from noncompliance, to better preserve the integrity of National Ambient Air Quality Standards decisions.

## Cosponsors (3)

- Rep. Gray, Adam [D-CA-13] (D-CA), 2025-12-09T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Gosar, Paul A. [R-AZ-9] (R-AZ), 2025-12-09T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Crank, Jeff [R-CO-5] (R-CO), 2026-02-04T00:00:00.000Z

## Votes

| Date | Chamber | Question | Result | Yea | Nay |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-04-22T00:00:00.000Z | house | On Motion to Recommit | Failed | 206 | 214 |
| 2026-04-22T00:00:00.000Z | house | On Passage | Passed | 220 | 198 |

## Provisions PRIA read

- States could exclude wildfire smoke data: mixed, medium. If enacted, Governors would be able to ask EPA to exclude some air‑monitoring data when wildfire smoke or a prescribed burn clearly caused a spike at a specific monitor. Actions to reduce wildfire risk would need to follow State‑approved practices. Petitions would need to show a clear causal link o…

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- 119-hr-1229: United States-Israel Defense Partnership Act of 2025
- 119-hr-5267: American Franchise Act
- 119-hr-9298: Stopping Harmful and Outrageous Torts Act
- 119-hr-1262: Mikaela Naylon Give Kids a Chance Act

## Sources
- [119-hr-6387 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/6387)

## Related
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- [119-hr-5401: Pay Our Troops Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-5401)
- [119-hr-1229: United States-Israel Defense Partnership Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-1229)
- [119-hr-5267: American Franchise Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-5267)
- [119-hr-9298: Stopping Harmful and Outrageous Torts Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-9298)
- [119-hr-1262: Mikaela Naylon Give Kids a Chance Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-1262)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-6387 (as of 2026-09-21).