On May 11, the Democratic members of New Mexico's congressional delegation (including Senators Martin Heinrich and Ben Ray Luján and Representatives Teresa Leger Fernández and Melanie Stansbury) introduced the Hermits Peak Fire Assistance Act, which would require the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to "design and administer a program for fully compensating those who suffered personal injury, property losses, business and financial losses resulting from the Hermit’s Peak Fire", through a new 'Office of Hermits Peak Fire Claims'.
