H. R. 759
Introduced in House · February 25, 2025January 28, 2025
Mr. Connolly (for himself, Mr. Fitzpatrick, Mr. Garcia of California, Ms. Bonamici, Ms. Brownley, Mr. Carson, Mr. Casten, Mr. Cohen, Mr. Costa, Mr. Davis of Illinois, Ms. DelBene, Mr. Deluzio, Mr. Hoyer, Mr. Krishnamoorthi, Mr. McGovern, Mr. Mrvan, Ms. Norton, Ms. Pingree, Mr. Pocan, Ms. Sánchez, Ms. Scanlon, Mr. Sherman, Mr. Takano, Mr. Thanedar, Ms. Titus, Mr. Norcross, Mr. Carbajal, Mr. Lynch, Mr. Harder of California, Mr. Evans of Pennsylvania, Mr. Frost, Mr. Raskin, and Mr. Garamendi) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
A BILL
To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide for pay equality and the more accurate computation of retirement benefits for certain firefighters employed by the Federal Government, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. Short title; purposes.
(a) Short title.—This Act may be cited as the. “Federal Firefighters Families First Act”.
- (b) Purposes.—The purposes of this Act are—
- (1) to improve pay equality between Federal firefighters, other Federal employees, and municipal and other public sector firefighters;
- (2) to enhance recruitment and retention of firefighters in order to maintain the highest quality of Federal fire service;
- (3) to include the pay of all regularly reoccurring scheduled hours during the firefighter workweek when computing such retirement benefits of firefighters; and
- (4) to establish the regular workweek for Federal firefighters.