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EMS Counts Act of 2021

Introduced: October 7, 2021 See on congress.gov
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Oct 7, 2021
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Oct 7, 2021
Introduced in Senate
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

EMS Counts Act of 2021

This bill requires the Department of Labor, in collaboration with the Office of Management and Budget, to revise the broad description under the occupational series 33-2011 Firefighters of the 2018 Standard Occupational Classification System of the Bureau of Labor Statistics to separately account for firefighters who also serve as paramedics or emergency medical technicians. Specifically, the classification system must include the following detailed occupations:

  • Firefighters;
  • Firefighter/EMTs;
  • Firefighter/Paramedics; and
  • Firefighters, All Other.
What's happening now October 7, 2021

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

 Related & companion bills 1
  • HR 2354 Related bill EMS Counts Act
 Bill text 1 version

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 3
All 3 Republican 3
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Crapo, Mike
Idaho · Apr 5, 2022
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Risch, James E.
Idaho · Apr 5, 2022
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Collins, Susan M.
Maine · Oct 7, 2021
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 2971: EMS Counts Act of 2021. 117th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/117-S-2971/
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"S. 2971: EMS Counts Act of 2021." 117th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/117-S-2971/.
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S. 2971, 117th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/117-S-2971/.
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