Protecting Workers' Wages from Medical Debt Act
This bill amends the Fair Labor Standards Act to prohibit wage garnishment for medical debt. It bars courts and states from enforcing any order that would withhold an employee's wages to pay medical b…
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Federal legislation · 119th Congress
This bill amends the Fair Labor Standards Act to prohibit wage garnishment for medical debt. It bars courts and states from enforcing any order that would withhold an employee's wages to pay medical b…
Based on the bill's title, this legislation would amend the Fair Labor Standards Act to reduce the standard federal workweek from 40 hours to 32 hours per week. The bill has been referred to the Senat…
This bill provides statutory authority for federal agencies to expedite the environmental review of certain mining infrastructure projects. Specifically, the bill permanently makes certain mining inf…
This bill establishes a dedicated task force within the Department of Justice's Criminal Division to investigate and prosecute trade-related crimes, including tariff evasion, smuggling, trade-based mo…
This bill expands a requirement for federal agencies to report expenditures on the USAspending.gov website to include other transaction agreement expenditures. (Other transaction agreements, or OTAs,…
Based on the bill's title, this measure would establish requirements on covered financial institutions to protect elderly individuals from wire fraud. The bill appears to focus on anti-fraud safeguard…
Based on the bill's title, this measure would amend the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to require that cost estimates prepared by the Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation…
Based on the bill's title, this measure would amend the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to expand eligibility for Department of Agriculture loans and grants to fishing and mariculture busi…
Based on the bill's title, this measure would amend the Internal Revenue Code to allow the Small Business Administration to access certain tax return information from the IRS for purposes of administe…
Based on the bill's title, this measure would amend the Small Business Act to require federal agencies to provide more detailed debriefing materials to small businesses when their applications for Sma…
Based on the bill's title, this measure would amend the Small Business Act to establish a no-collateral express loan program for qualified career law enforcement officers. The bill appears designed to…
This bill amends the Fair Labor Standards Act to reduce the federal standard workweek from 40 hours to 32 hours, with a three-year phase-in period (38 hours in year one, 36 hours in year two, 34 hours…
The Data Center Fair Share Act amends the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to establish federal standards requiring electric utilities to recover the full, incremental costs of generatio…
Based on the bill's title, this measure would require the President to declare a national housing emergency and use the Defense Production Act to encourage residential housing production. The Defense…
Based on the bill's title, this measure would amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to establish revenue-sharing arrangements for Pacific territories in connection with seabed mining activities.…
Based on the bill's title, this measure would require the Small Business Administration (SBA) to submit a report to Congress describing the Spanish-language resources and services currently available…
This bill amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to exclude direct sellers and qualified real estate agents from the federal definition of 'employee.' The exclusion incorporates the definitions o…
This bill requires the Internal Revenue Service to establish a fellowship program to recruit data scientists from the private sector to work alongside tax law specialists on complex and emerging tax a…
The American Franchise Act amends the National Labor Relations Act and the Fair Labor Standards Act to establish a narrow definition of "joint employer" status for franchise relationships. Under the b…
Based on the bill's title and latest action, this bill would make unspecified improvements to federal securities laws. The title does not detail which provisions of securities law would be amended, wh…
This bill amends the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to eliminate the restaurant meals program under SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program). The program currently allows certain states to ope…
This bill amends federal criminal law to establish a new offense for motor vehicle collision fraud. It prohibits knowingly executing or attempting to execute a scheme to cause, stage, fabricate, or si…
This bill amends veterans' educational assistance programs to increase support for apprenticeships and on-the-job training. It raises housing stipends for veterans pursuing full-time apprenticeships t…
This bill amends the Fair Labor Standards Act to extend overtime protections to agricultural workers. It requires employers to pay time-and-a-half for hours worked beyond specified thresholds (55 hour…
This bill limits states' authority to tax employee income earned while performing work duties in multiple states. Under the bill, employee wages would only be subject to state income tax in the employ…