To require the President to designate a legal public holiday to be known as National First Responders Day.

Bill: 113-hr-4109
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Capuano, Michael E. [D-MA-7]
Introduced: 2014-02-27
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Commemorative events and holidays

First responders and emergency personnel
Latest action: action_date: 2014-02-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

Summaries:
action_date: 2014-02-27
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Directs the President to issue a proclamation that designates National First Responders Day as a legal public holiday.</p>

tv_txt: I 113th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 4109 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES February 27, 2014 Mr. Capuano (for himself, Mr. Lynch , Mr. Meeks , Mr. Maffei , Mr. Israel , Mr. Owens , Mr. King of New York , Mr. Grimm , Ms. Clark of Massachusetts , Mr. Fattah , Mrs. Bustos , Mr. Brady of Pennsylvania , Ms. Kuster , Mr. Perlmutter , Mrs. Carolyn B. Maloney of New York , Ms. Kaptur , Mr. Swalwell of California , Ms. Norton , Mr. Kennedy , Mr. Enyart , Mr. Hastings of Florida , Ms. Shea-Porter , Mr. McGovern , Mr. Cartwright , Mr. Ruiz , and Mr. Larson of Connecticut ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform A BILL To require the President to designate a legal public holiday to be known as National First Responders Day.

1. Designation of National First Responders Day Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the President shall issue a proclamation that designates a date as a legal public holiday to be known as National First Responders Day , which shall be treated in the same manner as a legal public holiday described in section 6103(a) of title 5, United States Code.