To amend the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 to treat employment as a field emergency medical service practitioner in the same manner as employment as a firefighter for purposes of such Act.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1440.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. DesJARLAIS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 161, No. 46, March 18, 2015, Page H1770):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 18, 2015 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  64 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1440, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/1440

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  March 23, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  deec61ef4c743720078b5bf0ebb7b06582e6a2bab5c8e29cef0435f9b95bc077

  PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.

Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of March 23, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

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