119-hr4194

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4194 Introduced in House

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 4194

 To make immune from liability any manufacturer of critical 
 infrastructure for claims resulting from wildfire incidents, and for 
 other purposes.

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 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 June 26, 2025

Mrs. Miller-Meeks (for herself, Mr. Latta, and Mr. Tiffany) introduced 
 the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the 
 Judiciary

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 A BILL

 To make immune from liability any manufacturer of critical 
 infrastructure for claims resulting from wildfire incidents, 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 ``Limiting Liability for Critical 
Infrastructure Manufacturers Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDING.

 Congress finds that the manufacture of critical infrastructure is 
necessary to ``strengthen and maintain secure, functioning, and 
resilient critical infrastructure'' (PPD-21, February 12, 2013).

SEC. 3. LIMITED LIABILITY.

    (a) In General.--Any manufacturer of critical infrastructure 
equipment shall be immune from suit and liability under Federal and 
State law with respect to all claims for loss caused by, arising out 
of, relating to, or resulting from wildfire incidents, absent proof the 
manufacturer engaged in willful misconduct in the design or production 
of such equipment.

    (b) Critical Infrastructure Defined.--In this Act, the term 
``critical infrastructure'' has the meaning given such term in 

section 1016

    (e) of the USA PATRIOT Act (42 U.S.C. 5195

    (e) ).
            (c) Manufacturer Defined.--In this Act, the term ``manufacturer'' 
has the meaning given to those entities within the critical 
manufacturing sector pursuant to 

section 2220A

    (a)

    (2) of the Cyber 
Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act of 2022.
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