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Union Calendar No. 588
118th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 2574
[Report No. 118-694]
To require the Secretary of Labor to revise the Standard Occupational
Classification System to accurately count the number of emergency
medical services practitioners in the United States.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
April 10, 2023
Ms. Wild (for herself, Mr. Thompson of Pennsylvania, and Ms. Norton)
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on
Education and the Workforce
September 19, 2024
Additional sponsors: Ms. Pingree, Mr. Molinaro, Mr. Goldman of New
York, and Mr. Fitzpatrick
September 19, 2024
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole
House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed
in italic]
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on April
10, 2023]
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A BILL
To require the Secretary of Labor to revise the Standard Occupational
Classification System to accurately count the number of emergency
medical services practitioners in the United States.
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 ``EMS Counts Act''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress finds the following:
(1) Emergency medical services (in this Act referred to as
``EMS'') personnel provide a critical role in emergency
response. EMS consists of a diverse group of health care
practitioners, such as paramedics, emergency medical
technicians (in this Act referred to as ``EMTs''), dual-role
firefighter/EMTs, firefighter/paramedics, and volunteer
personnel serving in each of such roles.
(2) EMS is an integral component of the response capacity
of the United States to disasters and public health crises,
such as outbreaks of infectious diseases, bombings, mass
shootings, earthquakes, tornadoes, and hurricanes. EMS
personnel respond to more than 22,000,000 emergency calls each
year including strokes, heart attacks, cardiac arrest, and
trauma.
(3) The Bureau of Labor Statistics compiles information on
the number of individuals working in roles across the entire
United States workforce. The Bureau of Labor Statistics
completes this work by maintaining the Standard Occupational
Classification system which classifies workers and jobs into
occupational categories for the purpose of collecting,
calculating, analyzing, or disseminating data.
(4) The BLS fails to accurately count EMS practitioners
because of its failure to include dual-role firefighter/EMTs
and firefighter/paramedics in their count of EMS personnel.
(5) Accurately counting the EMS workforce is critical for
government agencies in determining the needs of EMS agencies
and practitioners. These data are also crucial for informing
many aspects of policy including preparedness for natural
disasters, public health emergencies, and acts of terrorism.
SEC. 3. REVISION OF STANDARD OCCUPATIONAL CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM.
(a) In General.--The Director of the Office of Management and
Budget (in this Act referred to as the ``Director'') shall, as part of
the first revision process of the Standard Occupational Classification
system occurring after the date of enactment of this Act, consider
establishing a separate code, as a subset of firefighter occupations,
for each of the following:
(1) Firefighters.
(2) Firefighter/EMTs.
(3) Firefighter/Paramedics.
(4) Firefighters, All Other.
(b) Report to Congress.--If the Director decides not to establish
the separate codes described in subsection (a), the Director shall, not
later than 60 days after the Director announces in the Federal Register
the final decision of the revision process described in such
subsection, submit to the Committee on Homeland Security and
Governmental Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Education and
the Workforce of the House of Representatives a report explaining why
such separate codes were not established.
Union Calendar No. 588
118th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 2574
[Report No. 118-694]
_______________________________________________________________________
A BILL
To require the Secretary of Labor to revise the Standard Occupational
Classification System to accurately count the number of emergency
medical services practitioners in the United States.
_______________________________________________________________________
September 19, 2024
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole
House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
H.R. 2574 (RH) - EMS Counts Act
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Publish Date: Sep 20, 2024
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Official Title: To require the Secretary of Labor to revise the Standard Occupational Classification System to accurately count the number of emergency medical services practitioners in the United States.
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- 2023-04-10: Ms. Wild (for herself, Mr. Thompson of Pennsylvania, and Ms. Norton) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce
- 2024-09-19: Additional sponsors: Ms. Pingree, Mr. Molinaro, Mr. Goldman of New York, and Mr. Fitzpatrick
- 2024-09-19: Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
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