Bill Details
S.893 - 119th Congress
Status
Latest action
2025-03-06 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S1606-1607)
Introduced Date
2025-03-06
Policy Area
Labor and Employment
Committees
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Sponsors
Cosponsors
6
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This bill would change federal wage law so that certain employees who are now exempt from overtime pay would no longer be left out. In simple terms, it aims to make sure more truck drivers and similar workers can receive overtime pay when they work more than 40 hours in a week. The bill does this by removing a part of the Fair Labor Standards Act that currently allows an overtime exemption for some workers.
- It repeals a section of the Fair Labor Standards Act that now blocks overtime pay for certain employees.
- The main goal is to extend overtime protections to truck drivers and others who are covered by that exemption today.
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Current Full Text
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 893 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 893
To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to remove the overtime
wages exemption for certain employees, and for other purposes.
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
March 6, 2025
Mr. Padilla (for himself, Mr. Markey, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Blumenthal, Ms.
Warren, and Mr. Wyden) introduced the following bill; which was read
twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and
Pensions
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A BILL
To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to remove the overtime
wages exemption for certain employees, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Guaranteeing Overtime for Truckers
Act''.
SEC. 2. AMENDMENT TO THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT OF 1938.
Section 13(b)(1) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C.
213(b)(1)) is repealed.
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