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Tribal Climate Health Assurance Act of 2025
This bill provides statutory authority for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to implement the Climate Ready Tribes Initiative in coordination with the National Indian Health Board. The purposes of the initiative include translating science, creating decision-support tools, and mitigating threats relating to the health impacts of climate change on Indian tribes.
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Rep. Underwood, Lauren [D-IL-14] · D–IL
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Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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Based on the full Introduced in House · 2025-02-27 text. This explanation has not received human editorial review. This overview describes the proposal’s major provisions; it does not establish what its real-world effects would be.
This proposal would require a federal initiative to help Tribal governments, health departments, and communities prepare for health threats linked to climate change. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would carry it out in coordination with the National Indian Health Board. The bill would authorize $110 million annually beginning in fiscal year 2026, but authorization would not itself provide that money.
The Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in coordination with the National Indian Health Board, shall implement the Climate Ready Tribes Initiative
(1) Translating climate change science to inform Tribal governments, health departments, and communities.
(4) Identifying, assessing, and taking action to mitigate climate-related health threats.
To carry out this section, there is authorized to be appropriated $110,000,000 for fiscal year 2026 and each fiscal year thereafter.
The bill would add the Climate Ready Tribes Initiative to the Public Health Service Act. It would require the Secretary to implement the initiative through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director, in coordination with the National Indian Health Board.
Part B of title III of the Public Health Service Act is amended by inserting after section 317V (42 U.S.C. 247b–24) the following new section: 317W. Climate Ready Tribes Initiative
The Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in coordination with the National Indian Health Board, shall implement the Climate Ready Tribes Initiative
The initiative's stated purposes would include making climate science useful to Tribal governments, health departments, and communities, and creating tools to help them make decisions and prepare for climate change.
(1) Translating climate change science to inform Tribal governments, health departments, and communities. (2) Creating decision-support tools to build capacity to prepare for climate change.
Other stated purposes would include leading public health planning for climate change, identifying and assessing climate-related health threats, taking action to reduce those threats, and sharing resources and information about funding opportunities. These are proposed purposes, not evidence of achieved results.
(3) Serving as a credible leader in planning and preparing for the public health impacts of climate change. (4) Identifying, assessing, and taking action to mitigate climate-related health threats. (5) Sharing relevant materials and resources, including information about funding and other opportunities.
The bill would authorize Congress to provide $110 million for fiscal year 2026 and the same amount each fiscal year afterward, with no final funding year specified. This is permission for future appropriations, not an appropriation that makes funds available.
To carry out this section, there is authorized to be appropriated $110,000,000 for fiscal year 2026 and each fiscal year thereafter.
The Secretary could not transfer or redirect funds made available under this authorization to another program the Secretary administers.
None of the funds made available under paragraph (1) may be transferred or reprogrammed by the Secretary to carry out another program administered by the Secretary.
The supplied actions snapshot, updated September 2, 2025, records introduction in the House and referral to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on February 27, 2025. It does not establish what happened afterward.
Source snapshot updated 2025-09-02T15:21:42Z. 2025-02-27: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. 2025-02-27: Introduced in House
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