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Version 17 · Reported to House with amendment(s) · Jul 27, 2017
Save Local Business Act
(Sec. 2) This bill amends the National Labor Relations Act and the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide that a person may be considered a joint employer in relation to an employee only if such person directly, actually, and immediately, and not in a limited and routine manner, exercises significant control over the essential terms and conditions of employment, such as hiring employees, discharging employees, determining individual employee rates of pay and benefits, day-to-day supervision of employees, assigning individual work schedules, positions, and tasks, or administering employee discipline.
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Rep. Byrne, Bradley [R-AL-1] · R–AL
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Received in the Senate.
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
On passage Passed by recorded vote: 242 - 181 (Roll no. 614). (text: CR H8566)
House roll call 614 · Individual votesPassed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by recorded vote: 242 - 181 (Roll no. 614).(text: CR H8566)
House roll call 614 · Individual votesOn motion to recommit with instructions Failed by the Yeas and Nays: 186 - 235 (Roll no. 613).
House roll call 613 · Individual votesThe previous question on the motion to recommit with instructions was ordered without objection.
DEBATE - The House proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Bonamici motion to recommit with instructions. The instructions contained in the motion seek to require the bill to be reported back to the House with an amendment to section 2, Clarification of Joint Employment, to change the applicability when a franchisee takes an action at the direction of a franchisor, and such action by the franchisee violates this Act, in which case the franchisor shall be considered a joint employer for purposes of such violation.
Ms. Bonamici moved to recommit with instructions to the Committee on Education and the Workforce. (text: CR H8579)
The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.
DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on H.R. 3441.
Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 3043 and H.R. 3441. Measure will be considered read. The resolution provides for one hour of debate on H.R. 3043. The resolution makes in order only those further amendments printed in the report and one motion to recommit with or without instructions. Also, the resolution provides for one hour of debate on H.R. 3441 with one motion to recommit with or without instructions.
Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 607. (consideration: CR H8566-8581)
Rule H. Res. 607 passed House.
Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 607 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 3043 and H.R. 3441. Measure will be considered read. The resolution provides for one hour of debate on H.R. 3043. The resolution makes in order only those further amendments printed in the report and one motion to recommit with or without instructions. Also, the resolution provides for one hour of debate on H.R. 3441 with one motion to recommit with or without instructions.
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 278.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Education and the Workforce. H. Rept. 115-379.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Education and the Workforce. H. Rept. 115-379.
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 23 - 17.
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Hearings Held by the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Prior to Referral.
Hearings Held by the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections Prior to Referral.
Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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