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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 759
To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide for pay equality and
the more accurate computation of retirement benefits for certain fire-
fighters employed by the Federal Government, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JANUARY28, 2025
Mr. C
ONNOLLY(for himself, Mr. FITZPATRICK, Mr. GARCIAof California, Ms.
B
ONAMICI, Ms. BROWNLEY, Mr. CARSON, Mr. CASTEN, Mr. COHEN, Mr.
C
OSTA, Mr. DAVISof Illinois, Ms. DELBENE, Mr. DELUZIO, Mr. HOYER,
Mr. K
RISHNAMOORTHI, Mr. MCGOVERN, Mr. MRVAN, Ms. NORTON, Ms.
P
INGREE, Mr. POCAN, Ms. SA´NCHEZ, Ms. SCANLON, Mr. SHERMAN, Mr.
T
AKANO, Mr. THANEDAR, Ms. TITUS, Mr. NORCROSS, Mr. CARBAJAL,
Mr. L
YNCH, Mr. HARDERof California, Mr. EVANSof Pennsylvania, Mr.
F
ROST, Mr. RASKIN, and Mr. GARAMENDI) introduced the following bill;
which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Re-
form A BILL
To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide for pay
equality and the more accurate computation of retire-
ment benefits for certain firefighters employed by the
Federal Government, 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
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; PURPOSES. 1
(a) S
HORTTITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 2
‘‘Federal Firefighters Families First Act’’. 3
(b) P
URPOSES.—The purposes of this Act are— 4
(1) to improve pay equality between Federal 5
firefighters, other Federal employees, and municipal 6
and other public sector firefighters; 7
(2) to enhance recruitment and retention of 8
firefighters in order to maintain the highest quality 9
of Federal fire service; 10
(3) to include the pay of all regularly reoccur-11
ring scheduled hours during the firefighter workweek 12
when computing such retirement benefits of fire-13
fighters; and 14
(4) to establish the regular workweek for Fed-15
eral firefighters. 16
SEC. 2. COMPUTATION OF PAY. 17
Sections 5545b(b)(1)(A) and 5545b(c)(1)(B) of title 18
5, United States Code, are amended by striking ‘‘2756’’ 19
and inserting ‘‘2087’’. 20
SEC. 3. COMPUTATION OF ANNUITY BASED ON CERTAIN 21
FIREFIGHTER SERVICE. 22
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Section 5545b of title 5, United 23
States Code, as amended by section 2, is further amended 24
by adding at the end the following: 25
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‘‘(e) For purposes of any determination of ‘average 1
pay’ under section 8331(4) or 8401(3), in the case of a 2
firefighter who is subject to subsection (b), the rate of 3
basic pay in effect for such firefighter for a year of cred-4
itable service (or, in the case of an annuity under sub-5
section (d) or (e)(1) of section 8341 or under chapter 84 6
based on less than 3 years of creditable service, for any 7
other period of creditable service) shall, in addition to the 8
amount determined under subsection (b) for such year (or 9
other period), include an amount equal to one-half the 10
firefighter’s basic hourly rate (as computed under sub-11
section (b)(1)(A)) for such year (or other period) times 12
the number of overtime hours included as part of such 13
firefighter’s regular tour of duty during such year (or 14
other period).’’. 15
(b) C
ONFORMINGAMENDMENTS.—Sections 8331(4) 16
and 8401(3) of title 5, United States Code, are amended 17
by striking the semicolon at the end and inserting ‘‘, sub-18
ject to section 5545b(e);’’. 19
SEC. 4. ESTABLISHMENT OF A MAXIMUM HOURS OF FED-20
ERAL FIREFIGHTERS’ REGULAR WORKWEEK. 21
Section 5545b of title 5, United States Code, as 22
amended by section 3, is further amended by adding at 23
the end the following: 24
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‘‘(f) Not later than one year after the date of enact-1
ment of the Federal Firefighters Families First Act, the 2
Office of Personnel Management shall prescribe regula-3
tions establishing the maximum number of regularly reoc-4
curring hours which comprise a workweek for a firefighter 5
covered by this section. The maximum number of such 6
hours shall not exceed an average of 60 hours per week.’’. 7
SEC. 5. EFFECTIVE DATE. 8
The amendments made by this Act shall apply with 9
respect to any annuity entitlement to which is based on 10
a separation from service occurring after the end of the 11
60-day period beginning on the date of the enactment of 12
this Act. 13
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