Volunteer Firefighter and EMS Personnel Job Protection Act
Latest action · Nov 7, 2005 Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedSep 29, 2005
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Volunteer Firefighter and EMS Personnel Job Protection Act - Prohibits any person from being terminated, demoted, or discriminated against in the terms or conditions of employment because the employee is absent or late as a result of responding as a volunteer firefighter or performing volunteer emergency medical services. Limits applicable absences to 14 days per calendar year.
Allows employers to: (1) withhold the employee's regular pay for such time as the employee is absent; and (2) request the employee to provide written verification from the supervising Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), state, or local official that such employee responded in an official capacity at a specified time and date.
Requires such an employee to make a reasonable effort to notify his or her employer that he or she may be absent or late.
Gives such an employee a private cause of action for discrimination which violates this Act.
Cosponsors 69
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Sep 29, 2005 to Nov 13, 2006, with 3 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-NJ | Bill Pascrell, Jr. | Original | Sep 29, 2005 |
| R-PA | Curt Weldon | Original | Sep 29, 2005 |
| D-NJ | Robert E. Andrews | Original | Sep 29, 2005 |
| D-NY | Major R. Owens | Oct 18, 2005 | |
| R-AL | Mike Rogers | Oct 18, 2005 | |
| R-CO | Joel Hefley | Oct 20, 2005 | |
| D-NY | Michael R. McNulty | Oct 20, 2005 | |
| D-TX | Ralph M. Hall | Oct 20, 2005 | |
| I-VT | Bernard Sanders | Oct 28, 2005 | |
| D-AR | Mike Ross | Oct 28, 2005 | |
| D-OH | Dennis J. Kucinich | Nov 2, 2005 | |
| R-MT | Denny Rehberg | Nov 2, 2005 | |
| D-NJ | Frank Pallone, Jr. | Nov 2, 2005 | |
| D-TN | Harold E. Ford Jr. | Nov 2, 2005 | |
| D-PA | Robert A. Brady | Nov 2, 2005 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Nov 7, 2005Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
- Sep 29, 2005Introduced in House
- Sep 29, 2005Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 2399 | Volunteer Firefighter and EMS Personnel Job Protection Act | Related bill | Mar 9, 2006 |
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Labor and Employment.
- Civil actions and liability
- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
- Damages
- Disaster relief
- Disasters
- Disciplining of employees
- Discrimination in employment
- Dismissal of employees
- Emergency Management
- Employee rights
- Employers' liability
- Fire fighters
- Fringe benefits
- Health
- Hurricane aftermath legislation
- Labor and Employment
- Law
- Paramedical personnel
- Seniority in employment
- Social Welfare
- Volunteer workers
- Wage restitution
- Wages
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Sep 29, 2005Introduced in House
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