[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1440 Introduced in House (IH)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1440

  To amend the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 to treat 
  employment as a field emergency medical service practitioner in the 
  same manner as employment as a firefighter for purposes of such Act.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 18, 2015

    Mr. DesJarlais (for himself and Mr. Fleischmann) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and 
                             the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 to treat 
  employment as a field emergency medical service practitioner in the 
  same manner as employment as a firefighter for purposes of such Act.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. FIELD EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE PRACTITIONERS UNDER THE AGE 
              DISCRIMINATION IN EMPLOYMENT ACT OF 1967.

    (a) In General.--Section 4(j)(1) of the Age Discrimination in 
Employment Act of 1967 (29 U.S.C. 623(J)(1)) is amended by striking 
``firefighter or as a'' and inserting ``firefighter, field emergency 
medical service practitioner, or''.
    (b) Definition.--Section 11(l) of such Act is amended by adding at 
the end the following:
    ``(m) The term `field emergency medical service practitioner' means 
an employee, the duties of whose position are primarily to perform work 
directly connected with the responsibility of administration of 
specialized pre-hospital emergency care for victims of acute illnesses 
or injury, including an employee engaged in this activity who is 
transferred to a supervisory or administrative position.''.
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