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