[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 21 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 21

  To amend the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 to modify the 
             definition of the term ``at-risk community''.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             January 23 (legislative day, January 3), 2023

 Mrs. Feinstein (for herself and Mr. Daines) introduced the following 
      bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                  Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 to modify the 
             definition of the term ``at-risk community''.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Community Wildfire Protection Act of 
2023''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITION OF AT-RISK COMMUNITY.

    Section 101(1)(A) of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 
(16 U.S.C. 6511(1)(A)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``is comprised of--'' in the matter 
        preceding clause (i) and all that follows through ``a group'' 
        in clause (ii) and inserting ``comprises a group''; and
            (2) by striking ``within or adjacent to Federal land;'' and 
        inserting a semicolon.
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