HR 2814
106th Congress
House
Government Operations and Politics
Department of Agriculture
Department of the Interior
Emergency Management
Federal employees
Fire fighters
Fire prevention
Forest fires
Labor and Employment
National forests
Overtime
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Wildland Firefighters Pay Equity Act of 1999
Introduced: September 8, 1999
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Everywhere this bill has been
3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Sep 14, 1999
Referred to the Subcommittee on Civil Service.
Sep 8, 1999
Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
Sep 8, 1999
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Wildland Firefighters Pay Equity Act of 1999 - Amends Federal Civil Service provisions regarding the computation of overtime pay to provide that: (1) the overtime hourly rate of pay for U.S. Forest Service employees in the Departments of Agriculture and Interior engaged in emergency wildland fire suppression is an amount equal to one and one-half times the hourly rate of such employees' basic pay, whether such pay falls below, equals, or exceeds the minimum rate of basic pay for GS-10; and (2) all that amount is premium pay.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Civil Service.
Committees of jurisdiction
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