Aerial Firefighting Enhancement Act of 2025, the official text

S160 ENR: Aerial Firefighting Enhancement Act of 2025
U.S. Senate
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One Hundred Nineteenth Congress of the United States of America
1st Session
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Friday, the third day of January, two thousand and twenty five
S. 160
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
AN ACT
To amend the Wildfire Suppression Aircraft Transfer Act of 1996 to reauthorize the sale by the Department of Defense of aircraft and parts for wildfire suppression purposes, and for other purposes.
1.
Short title
This Act may be cited as the Aerial Firefighting Enhancement Act of 2025 .
2. Modification and reauthorization of authority for sale by Department of Defense of aircraft and parts for wildfire suppression purposes
Section 2 of the Wildfire Suppression Aircraft Transfer Act of 1996 ( Public Law 104–307 ; 10 U.S.C. 2576 note) is amended—
(1)
in subsection (a)(1)—
(A) by striking a period and inserting the period ; and
(B)
by inserting or water after fire retardant ;
(2) in subsection (b), by striking sold under subsection (a) and all that follows through the period at the end and inserting sold under subsection (a) may be used only for the provision of aircraft services for wildfire suppression purposes. ;
(3)
in subsection (c), by inserting or water after fire retardant ;
(4) in subsection (d)(1), in the second sentence, by striking subsection (a)(1) and inserting subsection (g) ; and
(5)
by striking subsection (g) and inserting the following:
(g) Period for exercise of authority
The period specified in this subsection is the period beginning on the date of the enactment of the Aerial Firefighting Enhancement Act of 2025 and ending on October 1, 2035.
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Speaker of the House of Representatives
Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate