To amend section 5545 of title 5, United States Code, to provide hazard pay for carrying out prescribed burns, and for other purposes.
In committee: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- In committee
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- House
- Sponsors
- 19
- Latest action
- Sep 2, 2025
What it does
HR.5091 would amend federal law to provide hazard pay for federal employees who perform prescribed burns or serve as smokejumper firefighters, treating these duties as equivalent to fighting wildfires for pay differential purposes. The bill applies to firefighters engaged in ignition, control, or suppression of prescribed burns, as well as smokejumpers conducting parachute jumps for training or operations. It requires the Office of Personnel Management to issue implementing regulations within 90 days of enactment, with the hazard pay taking effect after either those regulations are issued or 90 days post-enactment, whichever comes first, without altering existing hazard pay determinations…
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