# 119-s-1094: Mass Timber Federal Buildings Act of 2025

119-s-1094, Mass Timber Federal Buildings Act of 2025, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR] (D-OR); status introduced; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-10-31).

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- As of: 2026-10-31
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## Facts
- Bill: 119-s-1094
- Congress: 119
- Title: Mass Timber Federal Buildings Act of 2025
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2025-03-24
- Sponsor: Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR] (D-OR)
- Cosponsors: 3
- Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2026-10-31

## Summary

**Promotes use of mass timber in federal public buildings.** The bill would create a contracting preference for innovative wood products like mass timber in construction, alteration, acquisition, or lease of public buildings when those products come from U.S. facilities and responsibly managed U.S. forestlands. - Federal building projects would get a preference for mass timber when feasible. The General Services Administrator or the Defense Secretary would have to prioritize products procured from U.S. facilities and harvested from U.S. forestlands that meet responsible sourcing standards. - Rural and Tribal forest owners could see more demand. The bill favors materials from restoration practices, forest actions meant to protect communities and infrastructure from catastrophic wildfire, and underserved owners including Tribally owned and small family forests, and it requires documentation to verify such sourcing. - Environmental accountability would increase through a required cradle-to-gate whole-building lifecycle assessment focused on global warming potential and done to ISO 14044 and ISO 14020 standards. The assessment must be completed within 180 days after enactment and a report must be submitted to Congress and published within 180 days after the assessment is finished.

## Cosponsors (3)

- Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR] (D-OR), 2025-03-24T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID] (R-ID), 2025-03-24T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Risch, James E. [R-ID] (R-ID), 2025-03-24T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- Definitions for mass timber program: benefit, low. If enacted, the bill would add clear definitions for a federal mass timber buying program. It would define the GSA Administrator and the Secretary of Defense for the program. It would adopt the meanings of "innovative wood product" and "mass timber" by cross-reference to the 2018 farm law. It would…
- Priority for U.S. mass timber: benefit, low. If enacted, the bill would require GSA and the Defense Secretary to give priority to public building contracts that use innovative wood products. Eligible products would have to come from U.S. facilities and be harvested from U.S. forestlands that meet the bill's "responsible sources" rules. "Respo…

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## Sources
- [119-s-1094 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/1094)

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- [119-s-237: Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-237)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-1094 (as of 2026-10-31).