Salud Carbajal (D-CA)
Fire Safe Electrical Corridors Act of 2025
A Democratic bill with 2 Republican cosponsors · See all 3 cosponsors
Last activity — Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
In the other chamber's committee
Passed one chamber and has been handed to a committee in the other.
The committee decides whether it goes any further, and most bills that reach a committee never leave it. A committee that simply does nothing kills a bill without anyone ever voting against it, so no news from here is usually the news.
Its path through Congress
- Introduced
- Passed House voice vote
- In Senate committee
The House by voice vote (members called out yes or no together): no member's position on it was recorded.
What this bill would do
The Fire Safe Electrical Corridors Act of 2025 allows the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to authorize the removal of trees and vegetation near electrical lines. This applies to National Forest System lands and Bureau of Land Management lands. The act permits this removal without the need for a separate timber sale. Utilities can receive permission for this through special use permits or easements. If a utility sells the removed material, they must give the proceeds to the relevant Secretary after subtracting transportation costs.
Who it would affect, and how
Potential Positive Impacts for People
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Streamlined Vegetation Management: The bill allows for the cutting and removal of trees or vegetation near distribution or transmission lines without requiring a separate timber sale (Section 2(a)). This could make it easier for electrical utilities to maintain lines.
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Revenue Sharing: If an electrical utility sells any of the material they remove, they are required to provide the proceeds to the Secretary concerned, minus transportation costs (Section 2(b)).
Potential Negative Impacts for People
- No specific negative impacts are explicitly detailed in the text provided.
- 5/14/2025
- Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
- 5/13/2025
- Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H1983)
- On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H1983)
- DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 2492.
- Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H1983-1984)
- Mr. Westerman moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
- 4/18/2025
- Referred to the Subcommittee on Forestry and Horticulture.
- 3/31/2025
- Referred 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.
- 3 Cosponsors added.
- Introduced in House
One bill Congress.gov lists as related to this one — companions in the other chamber, earlier versions, and bills this one absorbed or was folded into.
Jim CostaDemocrat · California
Brian FitzpatrickRepublican · Pennsylvania
David ValadaoRepublican · California