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Union Calendar No. 586 

118TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 6319 

[Report No. 118–692] 

To require the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to review 

and make certain revisions to the Standard Occupational Classification 

System, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

NOVEMBER 8, 2023 

Mrs. TORRES of California (for herself and Mr. FITZPATRICK) introduced the 

following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and the 

Workforce 

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024 

Additional sponsors: Mr. ALLRED, Mr. BERA, Ms. BUDZINSKI, Mr. CASTEN, 

Mr. CORREA, Ms. DAVIDS of Kansas, Ms. DEAN of Pennsylvania, Mr. 

FOSTER, Mr. GRIFFITH, Mr. JAMES, Ms. KELLY of Illinois, Mr. 

KHANNA, Mr. KUSTOFF, Ms. LEE of California, Mrs. MCBATH, Mr. 

MFUME, Mr. MOULTON, Mrs. NAPOLITANO, Mr. NEGUSE, Ms. NORTON, 

Mr. PAYNE, Mr. RUIZ, Mr. RUPPERSBERGER, Mr. RUTHERFORD, Ms. 

SA ́NCHEZ, Ms. SCANLON, Mr. SMITH of Washington, Ms. STRICKLAND, 

Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania, Ms. TOKUDA, Ms. WEXTON, Ms. WILD, 

Ms. WILLIAMS of Georgia, Mr. WITTMAN, Ms. BLUNT ROCHESTER, Mr. 

KILMER, Mr. TRONE, Mr. TIMMONS, Ms. CRAIG, Ms. ROSS, Ms. ESHOO, 

Mrs. HINSON, Ms. PINGREE, Mrs. HAYES, Mr. CROW, Mr. HIMES, Mr. 

GUEST, Mrs. BEATTY, Mr. PAPPAS, Mrs. HARSHBARGER, Mr. 

GOTTHEIMER, Mr. VAN DREW, Mr. DAVIS of North Carolina, Mrs. MILLER of West Virginia, Mr. SCHNEIDER, Mr. TONKO, Mr. GARCI ́A of Illinois, Ms. DEGETTE, Ms. BROWNLEY, Mr. VARGAS, Mr. CLEAVER, Mrs. 

WATSON COLEMAN, Mr. NORCROSS, Ms. JAYAPAL, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. 

FEENSTRA, Mr. HUFFMAN, Mr. EVANS, Ms. WILSON of Florida, Mr. 

LYNCH, Mr. KEATING, Mr. BUCHANAN, Mr. NORMAN, Ms. DELBENE, 

Mr. STAUBER, Mr. VASQUEZ, Ms. SALINAS, Ms. TITUS, Mr. CASTRO of 

Texas, Mr. COHEN, Ms. SCHOLTEN, Mr. CONNOLLY, Mr. STANTON, Ms. 

MCCLELLAN, Mr. CASAR, Ms. BARRAGA ́N, Mr. MOLINARO, Mr. 

MOSKOWITZ, Mrs. TRAHAN, Mr. SMUCKER, Mr. CARSON, Mr. MULLIN, 


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Mr. SCHIFF, Mr. BACON, Ms. LOFGREN, Mr. GARBARINO, Mr. KEAN of 

New Jersey, Mr. MCGOVERN, Ms. SLOTKIN, Mr. GOLDMAN of New York, 

Ms. UNDERWOOD, Mr. THOMPSON of California, Ms. PORTER, Mr. 

MRVAN, Mr. THANEDAR, Mr. MOYLAN, Mr. LARSEN of Washington, Mr. 

HORSFORD, Mr. AMODEI, Mr. JACKSON of Illinois, Mr. SIMPSON, Mr. 

MORELLE, Mr. COLE, Mr. OBERNOLTE, Mrs. KIM of California, Mrs. 

SYKES, Mr. SORENSEN, Mr. SWALWELL, Mr. DELUZIO, Mr. POCAN, Mr. 

NADLER, Ms. MATSUI, Ms. OMAR, Ms. TLAIB, Mr. KIM of New Jersey, 

Mr. KILDEE, Mr. KRISHNAMOORTHI, Mr. LUCAS, Ms. CARAVEO, Ms. 

MALOY, Ms. JACKSON LEE, Mr. NICKEL, Mr. KILEY, Mrs. HOUCHIN, 

Mr. KENNEDY, and Mr. D’ESPOSITO

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024 

Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 

House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed 

[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 

[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on November 8, 2023] 

A BILL 

To require the Director of the Office of Management and 

Budget to review and make certain revisions to the 

Standard Occupational Classification System, and for 

other purposes. 


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1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Supporting Accurate 

5 Views of Emergency Services Act of 2024’’ or the ‘‘911 

6 SAVES Act of 2024’’. 

7 SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 

8 Congress finds the following: 

9 (1) Public safety telecommunicators play a crit10 ical role in emergency response. 

11 (2) The work that public safety telecommunica12 tors perform goes far beyond merely relaying infor13 mation between the public and first responders. 

14 (3) When responding to reports of missing, ab15 ducted, and sexually exploited children, the informa16 tion obtained and actions taken by public safety tele17 communicators form the foundation for an effective 

18 response. 

19 (4) When a hostage taker or suicidal person calls 

20 9–1–1, the first contact is with the public safety tele21 communicator whose negotiation skills can prevent 

22 the situation from getting worse. 

23 (5) During active shooter incidents, public safety 

24 telecommunicators coach callers through first aid and 

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1 lecting vital information to provide situational 

2 awareness for responding officers. 

3 (6) When police officers, firefighters, and emer4 gency medical technicians are being shot at, their 

5 calls for help go to public safety telecommunicators. 

6 (7) Public safety telecommunicators are often 

7 communicating with people in great distress, harm, 

8 fear, or injury, while employing their experience and 

9 training to recognize a critical piece of information. 

10 (8) In fact, there have been incidents in which 

11 public safety telecommunicators, recognizing the 

12 sound of a racked shotgun, have prevented serious 

13 harm or death of law enforcement officers who would 

14 have otherwise walked into a trap. 

15 (9) This work comes with an extreme emotional 

16 and physical impact that is compounded by long 

17 hours and the around-the-clock nature of the job. 

18 (10) Indeed, research has suggested that public 

19 safety telecommunicators are exposed to trauma that 

20 may lead to the development of posttraumatic stress 

21 disorder. 

22 (11) Recognizing the risks associated with expo23 sure to traumatic events, some agencies provide crit24 ical incident stress debriefing (CISD) teams to lessen 

25 the psychological impact and accelerate recovery for 


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1 public safety telecommunicators and first responders, 

2 alike. 

3 (12) The Standard Occupational Classification 

4 system is designed and maintained solely for statis5 tical purposes, and is used by Federal statistical 

6 agencies to classify workers and jobs into occupa7 tional categories for the purpose of collecting, calcu8 lating, analyzing, or disseminating data. 

9 (13) Occupations in the Standard Occupational 

10 Classification are classified based on work performed 

11 and, in some cases, on the skills, education, or train12 ing needed to perform the work. 

13 (14) Classifying public safety telecommunicators 

14 as Protective Service Occupations would correct an 

15 inaccurate representation in the Standard Occupa16 tional Classification, recognize these professionals for 

17 the lifesaving work they perform, and better align the 

18 Standard Occupational Classification with related 

19 classification systems. 

20 SEC. 3. REVISION OF STANDARD OCCUPATIONAL CLASSI21 FICATION SYSTEM. 

22 (a) IN GENERAL.—The Director of the Office of Man23 agement and Budget (in this Act referred to as the ‘‘Direc24 tor’’) shall, as part of the first revision process of the Stand25 ard Occupational Classification system occurring after the 


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1 date of enactment of this Act, consider establishing a sepa2 rate code for public safety telecommunicators as a subset 

3 of protective service occupations. 

4 (b) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—If the Director decides 

5 not to establish the separate code for public safety tele6 communicators described in subsection (a), the Director 

7 shall, not later than 60 days after the Director announces 

8 in the Federal Register the final decision of the revision 

9 process described in such subsection, submit to the Com10 mittee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of 

11 the Senate and the Committee on Education and the Work12 force of the House of Representatives a report explaining 

13 why such separate code was not established. 


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Union Calendar No. 586 

118TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 6319 

[Report No. 118–692] 

A BILL 

To require the Director of the Office of Managetion System, and for other purposes. visions to the Standard Occupational Classifica- ment and Budget to review and make certain reSEPTEMBER 19, 2024 

Reported with an amendment, committed to the Comand ordered to be printed mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, 


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