Title: Federal Firefighter Flexibility and Fairness Act
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
Federal Firefighter Flexibility and Fairness Act
This bill provides that any hours worked by a firefighter under a qualified trade-of-time arrangement shall be disregarded for purposes of determining eligibility for, or the amount of, any overtime pay. The bill defines "qualified trade-of-time arrangement" as an arrangement under which two firefighters who are employed by the same agency agree, solely at their option and with the approval of their employing agency, to substitute for one another during scheduled work hours in the performance of work in the same capacity.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1363 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1363

 To amend section 5542 of title 5, United States Code, to provide that 
  any hours worked by Federal firefighters under a qualified trade-of-
   time arrangement shall be excluded for purposes of determinations 
                       relating to overtime pay.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 6, 2017

Mr. Sarbanes (for himself, Mr. Wittman, Mr. Connolly, Ms. Pingree, Ms. 
   DelBene, and Mr. Lynch) introduced the following bill; which was 
      referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend section 5542 of title 5, United States Code, to provide that 
  any hours worked by Federal firefighters under a qualified trade-of-
   time arrangement shall be excluded for purposes of determinations 
                       relating to overtime pay.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Federal Firefighter Flexibility and 
Fairness Act''.

SEC. 2. TREATMENT OF HOURS WORKED UNDER A QUALIFIED TRADE-OF-TIME 
              ARRANGEMENT.

    Section 5542 of title 5, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following:
    ``(g)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, any 
hours worked by a firefighter under a qualified trade-of-time 
arrangement shall be disregarded for purposes of any determination 
relating to eligibility for, or the amount of, any overtime pay under 
this section.
    ``(2) For purposes of this section--
            ``(A) the term `qualified trade-of-time arrangement' means 
        an arrangement under which 2 firefighters who are employed by 
        the same agency agree, solely at their option and with the 
        approval of their employing agency, to substitute for one 
        another during scheduled work hours in the performance of work 
        in the same capacity; and
            ``(B) the term `firefighter' means a firefighter as defined 
        by section 8331(21) or 8401(14).''.
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