CONGRESS FOR VOTERS

Celeste Maloy (R-UT)

To amend section 5545 of title 5, United States Code, to provide hazard pay for carrying out prescribed burns, and for other purposes.

H.R. 5091 · House bill Government Operations and Politics

A Republican bill with 11 Democratic cosponsors · See all 18 cosponsors

Last activity — Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

In committee

Introduced and handed to a committee in the chamber it started in.

The committee holds it, and most bills are never heard from again. A hearing or a committee vote would be news; silence is the usual outcome, and it kills the bill without anyone voting against it.

Its path through Congress

  1. Introduced
  2. In Committee

What this bill would do

This bill requires hazard pay for certain firefighters who carry out prescribed burns and for smokejumper firefighters who make parachute jumps. Congress states that prescribed fires are an important part of land management and that firefighters taking part in them face risks, smoke exposure, and hard work comparable to wildfire suppression. The bill amends section 5545 of title 5, United States Code, to add these duties as unusual physical hardships or hazards. The pay differential for these duties will equal the pay for fighting forest and range fires on the fireline. The Director of the Office of Personnel Management must issue implementing regulations within 90 days of the bill's enactment.

Yes· 3 of 6

  • Scored +6

    Does this better protect public land such as parks and forests?

    Recognizes prescribed burning as a crucial part of active land and resource management and fire preparedness.

  • Scored +5

    Would union members be better off under this?

    Provides direct support and fair hazard pay to federal firefighters who are frequently organized or represented by labor unions.

  • Scored +5

    Does this strengthen the rights of workers to organise?

    The bill provides increased hazard pay compensation for federal firefighters performing prescribed burns and smokejumping.

The opposite

No question was scored the opposite.