Utah joins federal wildfire research program with other Southwest states.
H.R. 1045 — Utah Wildfire Research Institute Act of 2025 · Filed by Mike Kennedy (R-UT) · 3 cosponsors · Introduced Feb 6, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
This bill adds Utah to a federal program that started in 2004. The program lets states set up research institutes to study wildfires. Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado already have these institutes. Now Utah can have one too.
Who it affects
Utah residents benefit from wildfire research and prevention work. Utah universities and research groups may host or work with the institute.
One thing to notice
The bill does not give Utah money right now. Money comes from the 2004 law that already funds the program.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
3 cosponsors: 3 Republicans.
- Feb 6, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Feb 6, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Agriculture and House Committee on Natural Resources · Congress.gov: “Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period…”
- Jun 10, 2025 — Hearing held · Congress.gov: “Subcommittee Hearings Held”
- Jul 23, 2025 — Markup held in committee · Congress.gov: “Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held”
- Jul 23, 2025 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent”
- Dec 15, 2025 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H5876-5877)”
- Dec 15, 2025 — Floor vote scheduled · Congress.gov: “Mr. Stauber moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 2 reports from Dec 2025 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $3,540,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 135 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 0% of bills with any report.
Mike Kennedy, who sponsored the bill, received $520,500 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- American Property Casualty Insurance Association — $3,540,000 in 2 reports
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- research institutes — Places where scientists study wildfires and test ways to stop them.
- prevention — Actions taken to stop something bad from happening.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (684 characters) on Jul 2, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,707 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 22, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-23.
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