US Congress House Bill 2909 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 7-3-1)
Status: Introduced on June 25 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-07-28 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
Pending: House Conservation and Forestry Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Protecting Firefighters and Promoting Innovation Act This bill directs the President to establish an interagency working group to study the use of unmanned aircraft systems for wildland firefighting. The working group shall: develop standards and best practices for the use of unmanned aircraft systems for wildland firefighting to assist in fire suppression, to provide real-time updates for firefighters, and to reduce the risk of firefighter fatalities due to wildland firefighting and related aircraft accidents; identify opportunities to use existing federal unmanned aircraft systems to lower the costs of the use of unmanned aircraft systems for wildland firefighting; with respect to the use of unmanned aircraft systems for wildland firefighting, assess opportunities to improve interagency coordination, the efficacy of current technology, and the potential efficacy of emerging technology; assess the implications for the Fourth Amendment of any standards, best practices, or recommendations under this Act with respect to the use of unmanned aircraft systems; and report to Congress and to the National Wildfire Coordinating Group on the results of its work.

Protecting Firefighters and Promoting Innovation Act

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema [I-AZ]	Rep. Duncan Hunter [R-CA]	Rep. Scott Peters [D-CA]	Rep. Chris Stewart [R-UT]
Rep. Paul Gosar [R-AZ]	Rep. Matt Salmon [R-AZ]	Sen. Martha McSally [R-AZ]	Rep. Sam Graves [R-MO]
Rep. Julia Brownley [D-CA]	Rep. Dan Newhouse [R-WA]	Rep. John Garamendi [D-CA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-07-28	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
2015-07-14	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
2015-06-26	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
2015-06-26	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
2015-06-25	House	Referred to House Natural Resources
2015-06-25	House	Referred to House Agriculture
2015-06-25	House	Referred to House Transportation and Infrastructure
2015-06-25	House	Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, and Natural Resources, 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.
2015-06-25	House	Introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/2909/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/hr2909/BILLS-114hr2909ih.pdf