[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3005 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







108th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3005

To allow State Homeland Security Program grant funds to be used to pay 
 costs associated with the attendance of part-time and volunteer first 
  responders at terrorism response courses approved by the Office for 
       State and Local Government Coordination and Preparedness.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           November 18, 2004

    Ms. Stabenow (for herself, Mr. Craig, Mr. Levin, Mr. Crapo, Mr. 
Jeffords, and Mr. Rockefeller) introduced the following bill; which was 
    read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To allow State Homeland Security Program grant funds to be used to pay 
 costs associated with the attendance of part-time and volunteer first 
  responders at terrorism response courses approved by the Office for 
       State and Local Government Coordination and Preparedness.

    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 ``Rural and Part-time Firefighter 
Training Fairness Act''.

SEC. 2. STATE AND LOCAL PROGRAMS.

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds appropriated to 
the Office of State and Local Government Coordination and Preparedness 
for grants to States and local governments may be used by such States 
and local governments to provide a reasonable stipend to part-time and 
volunteer first responders who are not otherwise compensated for travel 
to or participation in terrorism response courses approved by the 
Office for Domestic Preparedness, which stipend shall not be considered 
compensation for purposes of rendering such first responder an employee 
under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 201 et seq.).
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