[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2435 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2435

 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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              June 5, 2014

  Mr. Begich introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

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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 subsection--
            ``(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 the option of the firefighters 
        and with the approval of the agency employing the firefighters, 
        to substitute for one another during scheduled work hours in 
        the performance of work in the same capacity; and
            ``(B) the term `firefighter' means--
                    ``(i) a firefighter, as defined in section 
                8331(21); and
                    ``(ii) a firefighter, as defined in section 
                8401(14).''.
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