Federal Firefighter Flexibility and Fairness Act

Bill: 113-s-2435
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Begich, Mark [D-AK]
Introduced: 2014-06-05
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Fires

First responders and emergency personnel

Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Latest action: action_date: 2014-06-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

Summaries:
action_date: 2014-06-05
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>Federal Firefighter Flexibility and Fairness Act - Requires disregard of any hours worked by a firefighter under a qualified trade-of-time arrangement for purposes of any determination relating to federal eligibility for or the amount of any overtime pay.</p>

tv_txt: II 113th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 2435 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES June 5, 2014 Mr. Begich introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs 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.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Federal Firefighter Flexibility and Fairness Act . 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 subsection— (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 the option of the firefighters and with the approval of the agency employing the firefighters, to substitute for one another during scheduled work hours in the performance of work in the same capacity; and (B) the term firefighter means— (i) a firefighter, as defined in section 8331(21); and (ii) a firefighter, as defined in section 8401(14). .