Emergency Pine Beetle Response Act of 2025
In committee: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- In committee
- Started in
- Senate
- Sponsors
- 6
- Latest action
- Sep 18, 2025
What it does
The Emergency Pine Beetle Response Act of 2025 would authorize emergency financial assistance to owners of nonindustrial private forest land and timber service businesses affected by pine beetle outbreaks, including cost-share payments covering up to 85% of restoration costs for landowners and up to 50% of eligible expenses for timber service businesses. It also authorizes emergency loans of at least 75% of estimated outbreak response costs for forest landowners and supplemental grants to state, tribal, and local governments for outbreak response and damage repair. Eligibility requires demonstrated tree cover prior to outbreak, location in a federally designated natural disaster area within…
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Where it stands
Introduced (Done)
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What moved
Who is involved
Sponsors
The lawmakers who put their names on it, lead sponsors first.
Where it goes next
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