To amend section 5545 of title 5, United States Code, to provide hazard pay for carrying out prescribed burns, and for other purposes.

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 5091 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 5091 To amend section 5545 of title 5, United States Code, to provide hazard pay for carrying out prescribed burns, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES September 2, 2025 Ms. Maloy introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To amend section 5545 of title 5, United States Code, to provide hazard pay for carrying out prescribed burns, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SENSE OF CONGRESS. It is the sense of Congress that the control and suppression of prescribed fires is an important part of fire preparedness and land management. Firefighters who engage in such suppression of prescribed fires take on risks, smoke exposure, and arduous tasks comparable to those in wildfire suppression. They should receive hazard pay to fairly compensate their risk and efforts. Likewise, smokejumpers are aerial delivery firefighters whose role in firefighting necessitates jumping from airplanes, which is a hazardous duty that should receive hazard pay. SEC. 2. HAZARD PAY FOR PERFORMING PRESCRIBED BURNS. (a) In General.--Section 5545 of title 5, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: ``(e)(1) For the purposes of subsection (d), duties involving the ignition, control, or suppression of a prescribed burn and duties involving parachute jumps from flying aircraft by smokejumper firefighters for training, proficiency, or operational purposes are duties involving unusual physical hardship or hazard for which the applicable pay differential under such subsection s