CANADA FIRE Act

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Introduced 2026-07-20Topic: environment · public health · governance ethics

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This bill would require the President, within 30 days, to determine whether wildfire smoke from Canada caused air-quality or health problems in the United States in the past year and whether the Government of Canada failed to take reasonable steps to respond; if no determination is made by then, both findings would be treated as made. After such a finding, the President would have to block U.S. property of named Canadian officials and others found responsible, and bar them from entering the United States. The bill would also bar federal agencies from contracting with the Canadian government, stop Export-Import Bank support for exports to it, and direct U.S. votes against international loans benefiting it, plus at least three other sanctions such as import or investment limits. It states that Congress believes the Secretary of State should consider expelling certain Canadian diplomats, and it allows sanctions to end once the President certifies 90 days without such smoke events and corrective steps by Canada.

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Action history

Date	Chamber	Action	Status effect
2026-07-20	House	Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Financial Services, Ways and Means, Oversight and Government Reform, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.	refer
2026-07-20	House	Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Financial Services, Ways and Means, Oversight and Government Reform, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.	refer
2026-07-20	House	Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Financial Services, Ways and Means, Oversight and Government Reform, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.	refer
2026-07-20	House	Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Financial Services, Ways and Means, Oversight and Government Reform, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.	refer
2026-07-20	House	Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Financial Services, Ways and Means, Oversight and Government Reform, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.	refer
2026-07-20	House	Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Financial Services, Ways and Means, Oversight and Government Reform, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.	refer
2026-07-20		Introduced in House	introduce
2026-07-20		Introduced in House	introduce

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