Emergency Limitation Periods Extensions for Workers Act
Latest action · Jul 13, 2020 Referred to the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedMay 12, 2020
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Emergency Limitation Periods Extensions for Workers Act
This bill extends the limitation period for filing specified claims or complaints under federal labor or employment laws that overlap with the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) public health emergency. For such an overlap, the filing limitation period is extended for 90 days beginning on the date after the public health emergency ends plus the number of days of overlap between the initial limitation period and the public health emergency.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Committees 5
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Education and Workforce Committee | Referred May 12, 2020 |
| House | Judiciary Committee | Referred May 12, 2020 |
| House | Veterans' Affairs Committee | Referred May 12, 2020 |
| Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee | Referred Jul 13, 2020 | |
| House | Oversight and Government Reform Committee | Referred May 12, 2020 |
| House | Committee on House Administration | Referred May 12, 2020 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jul 13, 2020Referred to the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.
- May 12, 2020Introduced in House
- May 12, 2020Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Veterans' Affairs, Oversight and Reform, and House Administration, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 166, no. 89, May 12, 2020, page H1993.
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To extend limitation periods for labor and employment laws, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Emergency Limitation Periods Extensions for Workers Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Labor and Employment.
- Administrative remedies
- Age discrimination
- Cardiovascular and respiratory health
- Civil actions and liability
- Congressional officers and employees
- Disability and health-based discrimination
- Emergency medical services and trauma care
- Employee leave
- Employment discrimination and employee rights
- Genetics
- Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
- Infectious and parasitic diseases
- Labor and Employment
- Labor standards
- Labor-management relations
- Migrant, seasonal, agricultural labor
- Public contracts and procurement
- Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
- Wages and earnings
- Worker safety and health
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- May 12, 2020Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
