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Alex Padilla (D-CA)

S.Amdt. 6053

S.Amdt. 6053 · Senate amendment

A Democratic amendment with no cosponsors

Changes S. 4784 — National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027

Offered

Offered, and not voted on yet. Most amendments never get a vote: the Senate takes up the bill and moves on without them.

Its path through Congress

  1. Introduced
  2. Pending Consideration

What this amendment would do

SA 6053, submitted by Mr. Padilla, aims to add a section to title II of bill S. 4784. Its purpose is to authorize a demonstration program to show how different wildfire conditions, technologies, and resilience measures affect wildfire spread and response within the built environment.

To achieve this, the amendment proposes the following:

  • The Secretary of Defense, working with the Director of the National Science Foundation, will lead the program.
  • The Secretary may build a mock town on a test range and start fires to conduct demonstrations.
  • The Secretary and Director will collaborate to design, build, equip, and run a full-scale, representative built-environment test range for controlled wildfire experiments.
  • The Secretary must share all program data and findings with the public, unless the Secretary decides an exception is needed for national security.