Modern Worker Empowerment Act
Latest action · Dec 4, 2019 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
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.
- IntroducedDec 4, 2019
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Modern Worker Empowerment Act
This bill requires the use of common law rules in defining "employee" under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.
Cosponsors 5
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Dec 4, 2019 to Feb 10, 2020, with 1 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-TN | Marsha Blackburn | Original | Dec 4, 2019 |
| R-OK | James Lankford | Jan 21, 2020 | |
| R-KY | Rand Paul | Jan 28, 2020 | |
| R-IN | Mike Braun | Feb 4, 2020 | |
| R-ND | Kevin Cramer | Feb 10, 2020 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Dec 4, 2019Introduced in Senate
- Dec 4, 2019Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 4069 | Modern Worker Empowerment Act | Identical bill | Jul 25, 2019 |
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Labor and Employment.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Dec 4, 2019Introduced in Senate
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.