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4	4	STSESSION H. R. 540
5	5	To require the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to review
6	6	and make certain revisions to the Standard Occupational Classification
7	7	System, and for other purposes.
8	8	IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
9	9	JANUARY16, 2025
10	10	Mrs. T
11	11	ORRESof California (for herself and Mr. FITZPATRICK) introduced the
12	12	following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and
13	13	Workforce
14	14	A BILL
15	15	To require the Director of the Office of Management and
16	16	Budget to review and make certain revisions to the
17	17	Standard Occupational Classification System, and for
18	18	other purposes.
19	19	Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
20	20	tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
21	21	SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
22	22	This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Supporting Accurate 4
23	23	Views of Emergency Services Act of 2025’’ or the ‘‘911 5
24	24	SAVES Act of 2025’’. 6
25	25	SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 7
26	26	Congress finds the following: 8
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30	30	(1) Public safety telecommunicators play a crit-1
31	31	ical role in emergency response. 2
32	32	(2) The work that public safety telecommunica-3
33	33	tors perform goes far beyond merely relaying infor-4
34	34	mation between the public and first responders. 5
35	35	(3) When responding to reports of missing, ab-6
36	36	ducted, and sexually exploited children, the informa-7
37	37	tion obtained and actions taken by public safety tele-8
38	38	communicators form the foundation for an effective 9
39	39	response. 10
40	40	(4) When a hostage taker or suicidal person 11
41	41	calls 9–1–1, the first contact is with the public safe-12
42	42	ty telecommunicator whose negotiation skills can 13
43	43	prevent the situation from getting worse. 14
44	44	(5) During active shooter incidents, public safe-15
45	45	ty telecommunicators coach callers through first aid 16
46	46	and give advice to prevent further harm, all while 17
47	47	collecting vital information to provide situational 18
48	48	awareness for responding officers. 19
49	49	(6) When police officers, firefighters, and emer-20
50	50	gency medical technicians are being shot at, their 21
51	51	calls for help go to public safety telecommunicators. 22
52	52	(7) Public safety telecommunicators are often 23
53	53	communicating with people in great distress, harm, 24
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57	57	fear, or injury, while employing their experience and 1
58	58	training to recognize a critical piece of information. 2
59	59	(8) In fact, there have been incidents in which 3
60	60	public safety telecommunicators, recognizing the 4
61	61	sound of a racked shotgun, have prevented serious 5
62	62	harm or death of law enforcement officers who 6
63	63	would have otherwise walked into a trap. 7
64	64	(9) This work comes with an extreme emotional 8
65	65	and physical impact that is compounded by long 9
66	66	hours and the around-the-clock nature of the job. 10
67	67	(10) Indeed, research has suggested that public 11
68	68	safety telecommunicators are exposed to trauma that 12
69	69	may lead to the development of posttraumatic stress 13
70	70	disorder. 14
71	71	(11) Recognizing the risks associated with expo-15
72	72	sure to traumatic events, some agencies provide crit-16
73	73	ical incident stress debriefing (CISD) teams to less-17
74	74	en the psychological impact and accelerate recovery 18
75	75	for public safety telecommunicators and first re-19
76	76	sponders, alike. 20
77	77	(12) The Standard Occupational Classification 21
78	78	system is designed and maintained solely for statis-22
79	79	tical purposes, and is used by Federal statistical 23
80	80	agencies to classify workers and jobs into occupa-24
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84	84	tional categories for the purpose of collecting, calcu-1
85	85	lating, analyzing, or disseminating data. 2
86	86	(13) Occupations in the Standard Occupational 3
87	87	Classification are classified based on work performed 4
88	88	and, in some cases, on the skills, education, or train-5
89	89	ing needed to perform the work. 6
90	90	(14) Classifying public safety telecommunica-7
91	91	tors as Protective Service Occupations would correct 8
92	92	an inaccurate representation in the Standard Occu-9
93	93	pational Classification, recognize these professionals 10
94	94	for the lifesaving work they perform, and better 11
95	95	align the Standard Occupational Classification with 12
96	96	related classification systems. 13
97	97	SEC. 3. REVISION OF STANDARD OCCUPATIONAL CLASSI-14
98	98	FICATION SYSTEM. 15
99	99	(a) I
100	100	NGENERAL.—The Director of the Office of 16
101	101	Management and Budget (in this Act referred to as the 17
102	102	‘‘Director’’) shall, as part of the first revision process of 18
103	103	the Standard Occupational Classification system occurring 19
104	104	after the date of enactment of this Act, consider estab-20
105	105	lishing a separate code for public safety telecommunica-21
106	106	tors as a subset of protective service occupations. 22
107	107	(b) R
108	108	EPORT TOCONGRESS.—If the Director decides 23
109	109	not to establish the separate code for public safety tele-24
110	110	communicators described in subsection (a), the Director 25
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114	114	shall, not later than 60 days after the Director announces 1
115	115	in the Federal Register the final decision of the revision 2
116	116	process described in such subsection, submit to the Com-3
117	117	mittee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs 4
118	118	of the Senate and the Committee on Education and the 5
119	119	Workforce of the House of Representatives a report ex-6
120	120	plaining why such separate code was not established. 7
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