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To amend section 5545 of title 5, United States Code, to provide hazard pay for carrying out prescribed burns, and for other purposes.
To amend section 5545 of title 5, United States Code, to provide hazard pay for carrying out prescribed burns, and for other purposes.
Summary
The bill amends federal law to provide hazard pay for federal firefighters who perform prescribed burns (intentional controlled fires used for land management) and smokejumpers who conduct parachute jumps from aircraft. Firefighters and smokejumpers performing these duties will receive the same hazard pay differential that applies to wildfire suppression on the fireline. The Office of Personnel Management must issue implementing regulations within 90 days of enactment, and the hazard pay becomes effective for pay periods beginning after the earlier of the regulatory issuance or 90 days following enactment. The bill establishes that these newly covered duties involve unusual physical hardship or hazard comparable to traditional wildfire suppression. The amendment does not affect any other pay differentials currently provided under federal law.
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Sponsor (1)
- Rep. Maloy, Celeste [R-UT-2] (R-UT)
17 cosponsors
- Rep. Bacon, Don [R-NE-2] (R-NE)
- Rep. Begich, Nicholas J. [R-AK-At Large] (R-AK)
- Rep. Bergman, Jack [R-MI-1] (R-MI)
- Rep. Carbajal, Salud O. [D-CA-24] (D-CA)
- Rep. Chu, Judy [D-CA-28] (D-CA)
- Rep. Crane, Elijah [R-AZ-2] (R-AZ)
- Rep. Franklin, Scott [R-FL-18] (R-FL)
- Rep. Harder, Josh [D-CA-9] (D-CA)
- Rep. Lawler, Michael [R-NY-17] (R-NY)
- Rep. Lee, Susie [D-NV-3] (D-NV)
- Rep. Moore, Blake D. [R-UT-1] (R-UT)
- Rep. Neguse, Joe [D-CO-2] (D-CO)
- Rep. Salinas, Andrea [D-OR-6] (D-OR)
- Rep. Tran, Derek [D-CA-45] (D-CA)
- Rep. Vasquez, Gabe [D-NM-2] (D-NM)
- Rep. Vindman, Eugene Simon [D-VA-7] (D-VA)
- Rep. Whitesides, George [D-CA-27] (D-CA)
Actions (2)
- Sep 2, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. · house
- Sep 2, 2025 Introduced in House
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
September 2, 2025
Ms. Maloy introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
A BILL
To amend section 5545 of title 5, United States Code, to provide hazard pay for carrying out prescribed burns, 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. SENSE OF CONGRESS.
It is the sense of Congress that the control and suppression of prescribed fires is an important part of fire preparedness and land management. Firefighters who engage in such suppression of prescribed fires take on risks, smoke exposure, and arduous tasks comparable to those in wildfire suppression. They should receive hazard pay to fairly compensate their risk and efforts. Likewise, smokejumpers are aerial delivery firefighters whose role in firefighting necessitates jumping from airplanes, which is a hazardous duty that should receive hazard pay.
SEC. 2. HAZARD PAY FOR PERFORMING PRESCRIBED BURNS.
(a) In General.—Section 5545 of title 5, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
“(e)(1) For the purposes of subsection (d), duties involving the ignition, control, or suppression of a prescribed burn and duties involving parachute jumps from flying aircraft by smokejumper firefighters for training, proficiency, or operational purposes are duties involving unusual physical hardship or hazard for which the applicable pay differential under such subsection shall be equal to the pay differential for fighting forest and range fires on the fireline.
“(2) In this subsection, the term ‘prescribed burn’ means the intentional application of fire to live or dead vegetation or forestry, range, or other landscapes for the purposes of land or resource management.”.
(b) Regulations.—Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the Office of Personnel Management shall issue such regulations as are necessary to implement the amendment made by subsection (a).
(c) Applicability.—The amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply with respect to pay periods beginning after the earlier of—
(1) the date on which the Director of the Office of Personnel Management issues the regulations required by subsection (b); or
(2) the date that is 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.
(d) Rule of Construction.—This section and the amendments made this section may not be construed as rescinding, replacing, or otherwise affecting any determination of the duties for which a pay differential is provided under subsection (d) of section 5545 of title 5, United States Code, as of the date of the enactment of this Act, except to the extent necessary for any such pay differential for a duty described in subsection (e)(1) of such section, as added by subsection
(a), to comply with such subsection (e)(1). <all>
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