Timber Innovation for Building Rural Communities Act

This bill creates a data platform to track forest carbon emissions, sequestration, and the carbon footprint of wood products, helping measure environmental impacts. It modifies existing grant programs to prioritize rural wood mills in areas with high unemployment, supports wood-building education at colleges, and funds pilot projects using mass timber in rural infrastructure construction. The bill directly affects rural communities (especially those with wood manufacturing history), wood product manufacturers, and educational institutions developing wood-building curricula. Key mechanisms include mandatory carbon data reporting, targeted grants for economic development, and requirements for wood products to be "produced and assembled in the U.S." in pilot projects.