[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6549 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6549

 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

                             July 17, 2008

 Mr. Sarbanes 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. TREATMENT OF HOURS WORKED UNDER A TRADE-OF-TIME 
              ARRANGEMENTS.

    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 performance of work in 
        the same capacity; and
            ``(B) the term `firefighter' has the meaning given such 
        term by sections 8331(21) and 8401(14), respectively.''.
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