Use of a sold aircraft is limited to wildfire suppression services
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, section 2, Sec. 2.
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Use of a sold aircraft is limited to wildfire suppression services
The document says “is amended”Who acts: CongressHow: statuteSec. 2 in the PDF
What the document says
“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."”
Paragraph (2) strikes the words of subsection (b) that begin "sold under subsection (a)" and run to the end of the sentence, and inserts words providing that aircraft sold under subsection (a) may be used only for the provision of aircraft services for wildfire suppression purposes. The inserted words are quoted. This law does not print the words it strikes, so the site does not record them.
What the document actually says
“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."”
That sentence, in plain words
This part crosses out the end of an old rule. New words take its place. A plane sold under this law may be used for one job only. That job is fire work.
What this is about
The law does not print the old words it crosses out. So we cannot say here what they said. We can say what the new words say. They set one use, and no other.
No action is recorded against this proposal. That is not evidence that none has been taken, and nobody has yet read it against the record. See what the tracker does not yet cover.
Aerial Firefighting Enhancement Act of 2025, Public Law 119-18, sec. 2, 139 Stat. 68 (2025). https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ18/html/PLAW-119publ18.htm
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“Use of a sold aircraft is limited to wildfire suppression services,” Aerial Firefighting Enhancement Act of 2025, section 2, Sec. 2. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/aerial-firefighting-enhancement-act-2025/proposal/sec02-use-limited-to-wildfire-services/ (retrieved October 10, 2026).
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