Restoring Overtime Pay Act of 2023
Latest action · Mar 29, 2023 Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
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.
- IntroducedMar 29, 2023
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Restoring Overtime Pay Act of 2023
This bill requires the Department of Labor to increase the salary threshold applicable to bona fide executive, administrative, and professional employees for purpose of determining eligibility for overtime pay. The bill phases in the increased threshold over which employees are exempt from overtime pay requirements beginning at an annual salary of $45,000 upon the bill's effective date. (The current threshold is generally $35,568.) Beginning in 2028, Labor must annually update the threshold to the 55th percentile (nationally) of weekly earnings for full-time salaried workers.
Further, the exemption from overtime pay for bona fide executive, administrative, and professional employees does not apply if at least 20% of an employee's duties are not directly or closely related to the performance of executive or administrative activities.
In addition, the Bureau of Labor Statistics shall publish quarterly on its website data about the weekly earnings of full-time salaried workers by census region.
Cosponsors 29
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 29, 2023 to Nov 18, 2024; 1 is an original cosponsor, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-NC | Alma S. Adams | Original | Mar 29, 2023 |
| D-PA | Christopher R. Deluzio | Jul 13, 2023 | |
| D-OR | Andrea Salinas | Aug 11, 2023 | |
| D-CA | Barbara Lee | Nov 1, 2023 | |
| D-CA | Ro Khanna | Nov 1, 2023 | |
| D-IL | Danny K. Davis | Nov 2, 2023 | |
| D-DC | Eleanor Holmes Norton | Nov 2, 2023 | |
| D-MA | James P. McGovern | Nov 2, 2023 | |
| D-MI | Shri Thanedar | Nov 2, 2023 | |
| D-CA | Zoe Lofgren | Nov 2, 2023 | |
| D-WA | Adam Smith | Nov 8, 2023 | |
| D-WA | Pramila Jayapal | Nov 8, 2023 | |
| D-PA | Mary Gay Scanlon | Nov 17, 2023 | |
| D-PA | Matt Cartwright | Dec 7, 2023 | |
| D-MD | Kweisi Mfume | Dec 12, 2023 |
Committees 1
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 Mar 29, 2023 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 29, 2023Introduced in House
- Mar 29, 2023Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
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. 169, no. 57, March 29, 2023, page H1660.
CRS reports 1
Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.
Cite it 1
Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.
| Product | Title | Kind | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| IF12532 | The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) Exemption for Executive, Administrative, and Professional (EAP) Employees: 2023 Proposed Rule | Resource | Nov 13, 2023 |
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 1041 | Restoring Overtime Pay Act of 2023 | Identical bill | Mar 29, 2023 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to establish a minimum salary threshold for bona fide executive, administrative, and professional employees exempt from Federal overtime compensation requirements, and automatically update such threshold each year, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Restoring Overtime Pay Act of 2023
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Labor and Employment.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Mar 29, 2023Introduced 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.
