[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 34 (Thursday, February 20, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Pages S1175-S1176]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 316. Mr. SCHIFF (for himself, Mr. Padilla, Mr. Hickenlooper, Mr. 
Bennet, Mr. Heinrich, Mr. Lujan, Mr. Wyden, Ms. Rosen, and Mr. Merkley) 
proposed an amendment to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 7, 
setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government 
for fiscal year 2025 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels 
for fiscal years 2026 through 2034; as follows:

       At the end of title III, add the following:

     SEC. 3___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO 
                   SUPPORTING FEDERAL WILDLAND FIREFIGHTERS AND 
                   ASSOCIATED PERSONNEL.

       The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate 
     may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, 
     aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution, 
     and make adjustments to the pay-as-you-go ledger, for one or 
     more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between 
     the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to 
     supporting Federal wildland firefighters or other Federal 
     personnel necessary for hazardous fuels management and 
     community wildfire resilience, which may include provisions 
     to recruit and retain such personnel, paying such personnel a 
     fair wage and providing industry-standard leave policies 
     following wildfire deployments, supporting the health and 
     wellbeing

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     of such personnel, exempting such personnel from hiring 
     freezes, or reinstating the employment of such personnel the 
     positions of whom were terminated during calendar year 2025, 
     by the amounts provided in such legislation for those 
     purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase 
     the deficit over the period of the total of fiscal years 2025 
     through 2034.
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