HR 4274
117th Congress
House
Government Operations and Politics
Congressional oversight
Department of Agriculture
Department of Commerce
Department of the Interior
Fires
First responders and emergency personnel
Forests, forestry, trees
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Wages and earnings
Wildland Firefighter Fair Pay Act
Everywhere this bill has been
5 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Oct 27, 2021
Subcommittee Hearings Held.
Sep 14, 2021
Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
Jul 27, 2021
Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands.
Jun 30, 2021
Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, and Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Jun 30, 2021
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Wildland Firefighter Fair Pay Act
This bill exempts federal wildland firefighters in the Department of the Interior, the Department of Agriculture (USDA), and the Department of Commerce from certain premium pay limitations for work relating to wildfire emergencies.
The bill applies retroactively to January 1, 2020.
Interior and USDA must each separately submit a report to specified congressional committees on the resources, policies, personnel or structural changes, and other investments necessary to support an expanded full-time, year-round firefighting workforce.
What's happening now
Subcommittee Hearings Held.