To amend the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 to treat employment as a field emergency medical service practitioner in the same manner as employment as a firefighter for purposes of such Act.

Bill: 114-hr-1440
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. DesJarlais, Scott [R-TN-4]
Introduced: 2015-03-18
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Age discrimination

Emergency medical services and trauma care

Employment discrimination and employee rights

Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Health personnel

State and local government operations
Latest action: action_date: 2015-11-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-03-18
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Amends the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 to treat field emergency medical service practitioners in the same manner as firefighters or law enforcement officers for purposes of exempting state employers from otherwise prohibited age discrimination practices.</p> <p>Allows an employer that is a state, political subdivision, and interstate agency to fail or refuse to hire, or to discharge, any such practitioner because of the individual's age if the employer provides the practitioner an annual opportunity to demonstrate physical and mental fitness by passing a job performance test identified by the Department of Health and Human Services in order to continue employment.</p> <p>Defines &quot;field emergency medical service practitioner&quot; as an employee, the duties of whose position are primarily to perform work directly connected with the responsibility of administration of specialized pre-hospital emergency care for victims of acute illnesses or injury, including an employee engaged in such activity who is transferred to a supervisory or administrative position.</p>

tv_txt: I 114th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1440 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 18, 2015 Mr. DesJarlais (for himself and Mr. Fleischmann ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce A BILL To amend the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 to treat employment as a field emergency medical service practitioner in the same manner as employment as a firefighter for purposes of such Act.

1. Field emergency medical service practitioners under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (a) In general Section 4(j)(1) of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (29 U.S.C. 623(J)(1)) is amended by striking firefighter or as a and inserting firefighter, field emergency medical service practitioner, or . (b) Definition Section 11(l) of such Act is amended by adding at the end the following: (m) The term field emergency medical service practitioner means an employee, the duties of whose position are primarily to perform work directly connected with the responsibility of administration of specialized pre-hospital emergency care for victims of acute illnesses or injury, including an employee engaged in this activity who is transferred to a supervisory or administrative position. .