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Main Subject: Government Operations and Politics

Direct Hire To Fight Fires

This bill provides permanent direct-hire authority to the Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Department of the Interior to fill wildland firefighter and firefighting support positions in the Forest Service and Interior agencies.

The bill also requires USDA and Interior to implement policies to recruit and retain wildland firefighters and related personnel, such as by streamlining the hiring process and reducing barriers for firefighters transferring between agencies.

Further, the bill requires USDA and Interior to annually report related data to Congress, including the number of firefighters needed for the coming year, the number of firefighting vacancies in each state, and existing barriers to filling such vacancies. The report must also be made available on a public website.

House floor actions Actions

Committee
Oct. 22 2024	Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 118-714, Part I.

IntroReferral

May. 18
2023

Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Accountability, and in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, and Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Accountability, and in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, and Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Accountability, and in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, and Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Library of Congress Actions

Committee
Oct. 22 2024	Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 118-714, Part I.

IntroReferral
May. 18 2023	Introduced in House Introduced in House

House committee actions Actions

Committee
Jul. 26 2023	Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 32 - 0. Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held. Subcommittee on Federal Lands Discharged.
Jun. 23 2023	Referred to the Subcommittee on Forestry.
May. 23 2023	Subcommittee Hearings Held.
May. 22 2023	Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.

House bill HR3499-118

Direct Hire To Fight Fires

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