Firefighter Equipment Protection Act

Bill: 114-hr-177
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Womack, Steve [R-AR-3]
Introduced: 2015-01-06
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Air quality

Fires

Intergovernmental relations

Military facilities and property

Motor vehicles

State and local government operations
Latest action: action_date: 2015-06-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-01-06
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Firefighter Equipment Protection Act</b></p> <p>Codifies a national security exemption from emissions regulations for excess personal property of the Department of Defense (DOD) that is transferred under specified DOD property transfer programs to a firefighting agency in a state or to another state agency.</p>

tv_txt: I 114th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 177 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 6, 2015 Mr. Womack (for himself and Mr. Amodei ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services , and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce , for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned A BILL To amend title 10, United States Code, to continue the national security exemption from emissions regulations when an excess Department of Defense vehicle covered by the exemption is transferred to a firefighting agency in a State or to any other State agency.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Firefighter Equipment Protection Act . 2. Continuation of national security emissions exemption for certain Department of Defense vehicle transfers (a) Continuation of emissions exemption upon transfer Section 2576b of title 10, United States Code, is amended— (1) by redesignating subsection (d) as subsection (e); and (2) by inserting after subsection (c) the following new subsection (d): (d) Continuation of emissions exemption upon transfer Personal property transferred under the authority of this section or through the Federal Excess Personal Property (FEPP) program or the Firefighter Property program (FFP) that qualified for a national security exemption under section 89.908 of title 40, Code of Federal Regulations, shall maintain this exemption even after the personal property is transferred to a firefighting agency in a State or to another State agency. . (b) Effective date Subsection (d) of section 2576b of title 10, United States Code, as added by subsection (a)(2), shall apply to personal property described in such subsection (d) and transferred under such section or through the Federal Excess Personal Property program or the Firefighter Property program after July 1, 2014.