First Responder Fair RETIRE Act

What it does

The Office of Personnel Management proposes regulations to carry out provisions of the First Responder Fair Return for Employees on Their Initial Retirement Earned Act. The Act allows covered Federal first responders who experience a qualifying duty-related illness or injury to continue receiving Federal retirement benefits in the same manner as though they had not experienced the disability. The proposed regulations would carry out the amendments the Act made to statutory provisions relating to the Civil Service Retirement System and the Federal Employees' Retirement System.

The Personnel Management Office's summary, as published in the Federal Register.

What it would change

3 parts of Title 5 of the Code of Federal Regulations:

5 CFR 353, 5 CFR 831, 5 CFR 842

Before this

No earlier Federal Register document under regulation identifier 3206-AO54 since Jan. 1, 2025.

What happens next and when

Comments must be received on or before September 21, 2026.

The agency's dates, word for word.

Check it yourself

• The document in the Federal Register
• Docket OPM-2024-0014 on Regulations.gov
• Title 5 on eCFR

The record as published

Source: the Federal Register (public domain). The document in the Federal Register