[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1128 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1128

 To expand the Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response grant 
  program to include grants for the support of changing the status of 
 part-time or paid-on-call firefighters to full-time firefighters, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 16, 2017

Mr. Peters (for himself and Ms. Collins) 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 expand the Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response grant 
  program to include grants for the support of changing the status of 
 part-time or paid-on-call firefighters to full-time firefighters, and 
                          for other purposes.

    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 ``Firefighters Retention Act of 
2017''.

SEC. 2. EXPANSION OF STAFFING FOR ADEQUATE FIRE AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE 
              GRANT PROGRAM.

    Section 34(a)(1)(B) of the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act 
of 1974 (15 U.S.C. 2229a(a)(1)(B)) is amended by inserting ``or to 
change the status of part-time or paid-on-call (as defined in section 
33(a)) firefighters to full-time firefighters'' after ``firefighters''.
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