Sec. 1. Short title; definitions; table of contents
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This Act may be cited as the or Tim Hart Wildland Firefighter Classification and Pay Parity Act . Tim’s Act In this Act: The term Director means the Director of the Office of Personnel Management. The term Federal wildland firefighter means any temporary, seasonal, or permanent position at the Department of Agriculture or the Department of the Interior, or any Tribal Firefighter, that maintains group, emergency incident management, or fire qualifications, as established annually by the Standards for Wildland Fire Position Qualifications published by the National Wildfire Coordinating Group, and primarily engages in or supports wildland fire management activities, including forestry and rangeland technicians and positions concerning aviation, engineering heavy equipment operations, dispatch, or fire and fuels management.
The term Secretaries means the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior. The table of contents for this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title; definitions; table of contents. Sec. 2. Special base rates of pay for wildland firefighters. Sec. 3. Wildland fire incident response premium pay. Sec. 4. Special limitations on pay for wildland firefighters. Sec. 5. Rest and recuperation leave for employees engaged in wildland firefighting. Sec. 6. Health provisions.
Sec. 7. Retirement for firefighters. Sec. 8. Pay parity for Federal structural firefighters. Sec. 9. Pay adjustments and other matters. Sec. 10. Wildland Fire Management Casualty Assistance Program. Sec. 11. Continuing accrual of service for firefighters.