Excess Urban Heat Mitigation Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 3703 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3703 To require the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to establish an excess urban heat mitigation grant program, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES June 4, 2025 Ms. Ansari (for herself, Mr. Bell, Mr. Carbajal, Ms. Dexter, Mrs. Dingell, Mrs. Foushee, Mr. Garcia of California, Mr. Horsford, Mr. Huffman, Ms. Jayapal, Mr. Landsman, Mr. Liccardo, Mr. Magaziner, Mrs. McClain Delaney, Mrs. McIver, Mr. Mullin, Ms. Norton, Ms. Omar, Ms. Rivas, Mr. Stanton, Ms. Titus, Mrs. Watson Coleman, Mr. Whitesides, Ms. Williams of Georgia, and Ms. Wilson of Florida) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To require the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to establish an excess urban heat mitigation grant program, and for other purposes. 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 ``Excess Urban Heat Mitigation Act of 2025''. SEC. 2. FINDINGS. Congress finds the following: (1) Heat stress is a leading weather-related cause of death in the United States, with more than 600 people killed in the United States by extreme heat every year, and many more experiencing respiratory problems and heat-related illness. (2) Urban areas are likely to experience higher temperatures than surrounding areas due to design-related attributes of the built environment, including manmade factors such as low solar reflectance, low vegetation and tree cover, high building density, high impervious surface cover, and waste heat emissions. (3) Underserved communities are disproportionately impacted by extrem