Hello Everyone,

I hope you all had safe and uneventful travel home from the Spring Meeting

I wanted to update you all on some big news regarding AFG and SAFER. Next week the House of Representatives will vote on the S. 870, Fire Grants and Safety Act. This Amended version of S. 870 will reauthorize AFG, SAFER and USFA trough the end of FY 2028.

It is important that your representative hear from you to be reminded that we strongly support this bill. I have set up a VoterVoice Campaign that can be found here, for you all to reach out to your Representatives. Please share it with as many people as you can. I also have a Legislative Action Alert going out at 10am urging our members to contact Congress.

You may remember that S.870 passed the Senate by 95-2 in April 2023. Because this is an amended version of the bill, it will have to go back to the Senate again before it’s sent to the President’s desk. We have been working with Senate leadership and we are optimistic that we can get the Senate to pass the amended version of S. 870 fairly soon. The Amended version of S. 870 replaces the original text with the text of the House AFG, SAFER and USFA reauth bill (H.R. 4090) and combines it with a bipartisan nuclear licensing bill. Text is attached if you’d like to review the amended bill.

Also, other good news on the AFG and SAFER front, we got 123 Representatives to cosign a letter supporting our FY 25 funding request of $405 million for each program.

Thank you,

Ryan

Ryan Woodward
Chief of Legislative & Regulatory Affairs
National Volunteer Fire Council
712 H Street, NE, Ste. 1478
Washington, DC 20002
P: 202.887.5700
E: Ryan@nvfc.org

www.nvfc.org

Click here to download the text of the bill.