H.R. 1505 · 119th Congress

Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act

Introduced on Feb 21, 2025 by Pete Stauber (R-MN-8). 66 cosponsors, 56 of them from another party. Latest action (Feb 21, 2025): Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.

Stage
Introduced
Introduced
Feb 21, 2025
Cosponsors
66
56 from the other party
Policy area
Labor and Employment
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Progress

The furthest stage the measure reached. Simple and concurrent resolutions do not go to the President.

  1. Introduced
  2. 2Reported by committee
  3. 3Passed one chamber
  4. 4Passed both chambers
  5. 5Sent to the President
  6. 6Became law

Official title

To provide collective bargaining rights for public safety officers employed by States or their political subdivisions, and for other purposes.

Subjects

  • Administrative law and regulatory procedures
  • Administrative remedies
  • Alternative dispute resolution, mediation, arbitration
  • Civil actions and liability
  • Emergency medical services and trauma care
  • Employment discrimination and employee rights
  • Federal Labor Relations Authority
  • Federal preemption
  • Fires
  • First responders and emergency personnel
  • Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
  • Health personnel
  • Labor-management relations
  • Law enforcement officers
  • State and local government operations

Summary

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Sponsor and cosponsors

Cosponsors by party as of the day they signed on. Original cosponsors signed on the day of introduction.

Pete StauberR-MN-8Sponsor

Democrats · 56

Republicans · 10

Roll calls

Recorded votes on the measure. Most measures move by voice vote or unanimous consent, which record no individual positions.

No recorded roll call on this measure: it moved by voice vote or unanimous consent, or has not reached the floor.

History

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  1. Feb 21, 2025Introduced in House
  2. Feb 21, 2025Introduced in House
  3. Feb 21, 2025 · HouseReferred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.

Committees

Committees and subcommittees the measure was referred to.

Agencies in its committees' jurisdiction

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Who lobbied on it

Organizations whose lobbying reports (LD-2) name this measure. Spending is what they reported for those quarters on all issues, not on this measure alone.

  1. INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS6 reports
    $1.2M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIREFIGHTERS$5,280 in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  2. National Fraternal Order of Police6 reports
    $600K reported (all issues)
  3. PERNOD RICARD USA LLC6 reports
    $360K reported (all issues)
  4. Peace Officers Research Association of California6 reports
    $300K reported (all issues)
  5. THE NATIONAL RIGHT TO WORK COMMITTEE6 reports
    $1.8M reported (all issues)
  6. INTERNATIONAL UNION OF POLICE ASSOCIATIONS, AFL-CIO4 reports
    $80K reported (all issues)

Reports filed in 2025, 2026.

Sources and method

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  • Bill status: bills and resolutions, sponsors, actions, subjects and CRS summaries (U.S. Government Publishing Office (GovInfo), from Congress.gov (Library of Congress))GovInfo Bill Status bulk data (Congress.gov; summaries by the Congressional Research Service) · data current to Oct 10, 2026 · loaded Oct 10, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Members of Congress, their terms, committees and identifiers (The @unitedstates project (from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress, the House and the Senate))unitedstates/congress-legislators: legislators, committees and current committee membership · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)
  • House roll-call votes (Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives)Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, roll-call vote records · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Senate roll-call votes and DW-NOMINATE scores (Voteview (UCLA Department of Political Science))Lewis, Jeffrey B., Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Adam Boche, Aaron Rudkin, and Luke Sonnet (2026). Voteview: Congressional Roll-Call Votes Database. https://voteview.com/ · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Free to use with the required citation
  • Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives)Clerk of the House, Lobbying Disclosure Act filings (organizations only; lobbyists' names are not loaded) · data current to Oct 10, 2026 · loaded Oct 10, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Positions are shown only where a roll call recorded them; voice votes and unanimous consent record none.
  • Money and votes are shown side by side; neither explains the other.