Tim’s Act
Latest action (Mar 7, 2025) — Referred to the Subcommittee on Forestry and Horticulture.
What it does
Congressional Research Service, Jan 28, 2025Tim Hart Wildland Firefighter Classification and Pay Parity Act or Tim's Act
This bill increases compensation and establishes additional benefits and programs for federal wildland firefighters. (These individuals are employed by the Department of Agriculture, the Department of the Interior, or tribal governments.)
The bill increases the minimum rate of basic pay for wildland firefighters at General Schedule (GS) levels 1 through 15 by percentages specified in the bill, with smaller increases for higher GS levels. The bill also requires comparable increases to the hourly rates paid to prevailing rate employees who are wildland firefighters. It also establishes premium pay for wildland firefighters who respond to certain prolonged fire incidents and are deployed outside of their normal duty stations or to an area adjacent to the incident. These changes take effect after other temporary pay increases for wildland firefighters expire.
The bill also (1) establishes paid rest and recuperation leave; (2) allows certain prior service to be credited for retirement purposes; and (3) provides housing allowances, tuition assistance, and other benefits for wildland firefighters.
Further, the bill directs the Office of Workers' Compensation Programs within the Department of Labor to ensure that psychological stress-related injuries and illnesses correlated to fire response are compensated and to expedite related claims.
The bill also establishes programs to (1) assist the next-of-kin of wildland firefighters and fire support personnel who are critically injured or killed while in the line of duty, and (2) support the mental and physical health of wildland firefighters.
Face Value
as introducedHow much of this bill its name accounts for.
- Every bill starts at100
- Nothing counted against it: one area of law, and short enough that length doesn't register.
Face Value measures reach, not honesty. A big bill can be accurately named, and a low score is not an accusation — it means the contents reach further than any short title could describe. Count it yourself ↗ How this is worked out
Who lobbied on this
2 organizationsThese organizations told Congress, in their own quarterly disclosures, that they were lobbying on this bill.
- American Family Mutual Insurance Company, S.i.no position stated
“…deadline for filing beneficial ownership information reports for reporting companies formed or registered before January 1, 2024. (Zach Nunn, R-IA-3) H.R.743 - To reform and enhance the pay and benefits of Federal wildland firefighters, and for other purposes. (Joe Neguse, D-CO-2) H.R.744 - To amend…” filing ↗
- National Association of Mutual Insurance Companiesno position stated
“…H.R.731 - To exempt hazardous fuel reduction activities from certain environmental requirements for a 10-year period. H.R.743 - To reform and enhance the pay and benefits of Federal wildland firefighters, and for other purposes H.R.744 - To amend section 324 of the…” filing ↗
Most filings say only that an organization lobbied on a bill, not which side it took — where that's the case we say so rather than guessing. Quotes are verbatim from the filing. How this is built.
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