House lawmakers advanced legislation Wednesday to renew the federal government’s weather forecasting programs, aimed at improving public communication and prediction of novel threats.
The “Weather Act Reauthorization Act of 2025,” H.R. 5089, passed by a unanimous voice vote of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee after the panel adopted a handful of amendments, also by voice vote.
The bipartisan bill is very similar to weather legislation passed by the House in May 2024. The Senate never took up that proposal, however, so Science Committee leaders made some tweaks aimed at a potential conference between the chambers.
The legislation would renew a slew of programs first passed in 2017 under the first major federal law to direct the work of NOAA’s National Weather Service in more than two decades.
