Proposed
Bill · 119th Congress · HR 9444
Support our Firefighters Act
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Introduced 2026-06-24Topic: labor · environment · public safetySummary
AI-generated summary, report an errorThis bill would let federal wildland firefighters at the Forest Service and the Department of the Interior receive paid rest and recuperation leave after being deployed to a qualifying fire incident. The Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior would jointly set the rules, which may include requiring 3 days of leave after a 14-day deployment or 4 days after a 21-day deployment. The leave must be used right after the incident, cannot be saved for later, and cannot be paid out if unused; workers on intermittent schedules would be excused and paid for the same period. The bill would also allow up to $5 million in unused Forest Service wildland fire funds to be moved to the Interior Department to continue a firefighter base pay increase, and would extend a waiver of overtime pay caps for wildland firefighters to every year going forward.
Sponsors
- Jimmy Panetta Democrat sponsor
- 9 cosponsors
Action history
| Date | Chamber | Action | Status effect |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-24 | House | Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, and Natural Resources, 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. | refer |
| 2026-06-24 | House | Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, and Natural Resources, 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. | refer |
| 2026-06-24 | House | Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, and Natural Resources, 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. | refer |
| 2026-06-24 | Introduced in House | introduce | |
| 2026-06-24 | Introduced in House | introduce |