I 
118TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1814 
To provide grants for fire station construction through the Administrator 
of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 27, 2023 
Mr. PASCRELL (for himself, Mr. FITZPATRICK, and Mr. BOST) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Science, Space, 
and Technology, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and 
Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speak-
er, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the ju-
risdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To provide grants for fire station construction through the 
Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management 
Agency, 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 ‘‘Facilitating Invest-
ments Required for Emergency Services to All Towns in 
Our Nation Act’’ or the ‘‘FIRE STATION Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. ASSISTANCE TO FIREFIGHTERS FIRE STATION CON-
STRUCTION GRANTS. 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) ADMINISTRATOR.—The term ‘‘Adminis-
trator’’ means the Administrator of the Federal 
Emergency Management Agency. 
(2) CAREER
FIRE
DEPARTMENT.—The term 
‘‘career fire department’’ means a fire department 
that has an all-paid force of firefighting personnel 
other than paid-on-call firefighters. 
(3) COMBINATION
FIRE
DEPARTMENT.—The 
term ‘‘combination fire department’’ means a fire 
department that has— 
(A) paid firefighting personnel; and 
(B) volunteer firefighting personnel. 
(4) EMS.—The term ‘‘EMS’’ means emergency 
medical services. 
(5) NONAFFILIATED EMS ORGANIZATION.—The 
term ‘‘nonaffiliated EMS organization’’ means a 
public or private nonprofit EMS organization that is 
not affiliated with a hospital and does not serve a 
geographic area in which the Administrator finds 
that EMS are adequately provided by a fire depart-
ment. 
(6) 
VOLUNTEER
FIRE
DEPARTMENT.—The 
term ‘‘volunteer fire department’’ means a fire de-
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partment that has an all-volunteer force of fire-
fighting personnel. 
(b) GRANT PROGRAM.—The Administrator shall es-
tablish a grant program to provide financial assistance to 
entities described in subsection (c) to modify, upgrade, 
and construct fire and EMS department facilities. 
(c) ELIGIBLE APPLICANTS.—The Administrator may 
make a grant under this section to the following: 
(1) Career, volunteer, and combination fire de-
partments. 
(2) Fire training facilities. 
(3) Nonaffiliated EMS organizations, combina-
tion and volunteer emergency medical stations (ex-
cept that for-profit EMS organizations are not eligi-
ble for a grant under this section). 
(d) APPLICATIONS.—An entity described in sub-
section (c) seeking a grant under this section shall submit 
to the Administrator an application in such form, at such 
time, and containing such information as the Adminis-
trator determines appropriate. 
(e) MEETING FOR RECOMMENDATIONS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Administrator shall con-
vene a meeting of qualified members of national fire 
service organizations and, at the discretion of the 
Administrator, qualified members of EMS organiza-
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