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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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 2024’’ or the ‘‘911 
SAVES Act of 2024’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) Public safety telecommunicators play a crit-
ical role in emergency response. 
(2) The work that public safety telecommunica-
tors perform goes far beyond merely relaying infor-
mation 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 tele-
communicators form the foundation for an effective 
response. 
(4) When a hostage taker or suicidal person calls 
9–1–1, the first contact is with the public safety tele-
communicator 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 col-
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lecting vital information to provide situational 
awareness for responding officers. 
(6) When police officers, firefighters, and emer-
gency medical technicians are being shot at, their 
calls for help go to public safety telecommunicators. 
(7) Public safety telecommunicators are often 
communicating with people in great distress, harm, 
fear, or injury, while employing 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 crit-
ical incident stress debriefing (CISD) teams to lessen 
the psychological impact and accelerate recovery for 
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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-
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 telecommunicators 
as Protective Service Occupations would correct an 
inaccurate representation in the Standard Occupa-
tional Classification, recognize these professionals for 
the lifesaving work they perform, and better align the 
Standard Occupational Classification with related 
classification systems. 
SEC. 3. REVISION OF STANDARD OCCUPATIONAL CLASSI-
FICATION SYSTEM. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Director of the Office of Man-
agement and Budget (in this Act referred to as the ‘‘Direc-
tor’’) shall, as part of the first revision process of the Stand-
ard Occupational Classification system occurring after the 
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date of enactment of this Act, consider establishing a sepa-
rate code for public safety telecommunicators as a subset 
of protective service occupations. 
(b) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—If the Director decides 
not to establish the separate code for public safety tele-
communicators described in subsection (a), the Director 
shall, not later than 60 days after the Director announces 
in the Federal Register the final decision of the revision 
process described in such subsection, submit to the Com-
mittee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of 
the Senate and the Committee on Education and the Work-
force of the House of Representatives a report explaining 
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 Manage-
ment and Budget to review and make certain re-
visions to the Standard Occupational Classifica-
tion System, and for other purposes. 
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024 
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Com-
mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, 
and ordered to be printed 
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