Federal Firefighter Flexibility and Fairness Act

Requires disregard of any hours worked by a firefighter under a qualified trade-of-time arrangement for purposes of any determination relating to federal eligibility for or the amount of any overtime pay.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1141 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1141

 To amend section 5542 of title 5, United States Code, to provide that 
  any hours worked by Federal firefighters under a qualified trade-of-
   time arrangement shall be excluded for purposes of determinations 
                       relating to overtime pay.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 13, 2013

 Mr. Sarbanes (for himself, Mr. Wittman, Ms. Norton, Mr. Grijalva, and 
  Mr. Brady of Pennsylvania) introduced the following bill; which was 
      referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend section 5542 of title 5, United States Code, to provide that 
  any hours worked by Federal firefighters under a qualified trade-of-
   time arrangement shall be excluded for purposes of determinations 
                       relating to overtime pay.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Federal Firefighter Flexibility and 
Fairness Act''.

SEC. 2. TREATMENT OF HOURS WORKED UNDER A QUALIFIED TRADE-OF-TIME 
              ARRANGEMENT.

    Section 5542 of title 5, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following:
    ``(g)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, any 
hours worked by a firefighter under a qualified trade-of-time 
arrangement shall be disregarded for purposes of any determination 
relating to eligibility for, or the amount of, any overtime pay under 
this section.
    ``(2) For purposes of this section--
            ``(A) the term `qualified trade-of-time arrangement' means 
        an arrangement under which 2 firefighters who are employed by 
        the same agency agree, solely at their option and with the 
        approval of their employing agency, to substitute for one 
        another during scheduled work hours in the performance of work 
        in the same capacity; and
            ``(B) the term `firefighter' means a firefighter as defined 
        by section 8331(21) or 8401(14).''.
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