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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 637 
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 
JANUARY 22, 2025 
Mrs. TORRES of California (for herself and Mr. FITZPATRICK) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and 
Workforce 
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. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Supporting Accurate 
Views of Emergency Services Act of 2025’’ or the ‘‘911 
SAVES Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
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(1) Public Safety Telecommunicators play a 
critical role in emergency response. 
(2) The work Public Safety Telecommunicators 
perform goes far beyond merely relaying information 
between the public and first responders. 
(3) When responding to reports of missing, ab-
ducted, and sexually exploited children, the informa-
tion obtained and actions taken by Public Safety 
Telecommunicators form the foundation for an effec-
tive response. 
(4) When a hostage taker or suicidal person 
calls 9–1–1, the first contact is with the Public Safe-
ty Telecommunicator whose negotiation skills can 
prevent the situation from getting worse. 
(5) During active shooter incidents, Public 
Safety Telecommunicators coach callers through 
first aid and give advice to prevent further harm, all 
while collecting vital information to provide situa-
tional awareness for responding officers. 
(6) And when police officers, firefighters, and 
Emergency Medical Technicians are being shot at, 
their calls for help go to Public Safety Telecommu-
nicators. 
(7) They are often communicating with people 
in great distress, harm, fear, or injury, while em-
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ploying their experience and training to recognize a 
critical piece of information. 
(8) In fact, there have been incidents in which 
Public Safety Telecommunicators, recognizing the 
sound of a racked shotgun, have prevented serious 
harm or death of law enforcement officers who 
would have otherwise walked into a trap. 
(9) This work comes with an extreme emotional 
and physical impact that is compounded by long 
hours and the around-the-clock nature of the job. 
(10) Indeed, research has suggested that Public 
Safety Telecommunicators are exposed to trauma 
that may lead to the development of posttraumatic 
stress disorder. 
(11) Recognizing the risks associated with expo-
sure to traumatic events, some agencies provide 
Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD) teams to 
lessen the psychological impact and accelerate recov-
ery for Public Safety Telecommunicators and first 
responders, alike. 
(12) The Standard Occupational Classification 
system is designed and maintained solely for statis-
tical purposes, and is used by Federal statistical 
agencies to classify workers and jobs into occupa-
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tional categories for the purpose of collecting, calcu-
lating, analyzing, or disseminating data. 
(13) Occupations in the Standard Occupational 
Classification are classified based on work performed 
and, in some cases, on the skills, education, or train-
ing needed to perform the work. 
(14) Classifying public safety telecommunica-
tors as Protective Service Occupations would correct 
an inaccurate representation in the Standard Occu-
pational Classification, recognize these professionals 
for the lifesaving work they perform, and better 
align the Standard Occupational Classification with 
related classification systems. 
SEC. 3. REVIEW OF STANDARD OCCUPATIONAL CLASSI-
FICATION SYSTEM. 
The Director of the Office of Management and Budg-
et shall not later than 30 days after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, categorize public safety telecommunica-
tors as a protective service occupation under the Standard 
Occupational Classification System. 
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