HR 2826 · 118th Congress 2023–2025, ended

Save Local Business Act

Introduced Apr 25, 2023 Originated House Sponsor James Comer R-KY

Latest action · Apr 25, 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.

IntroducedApr 25, 2023
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Save Local Business Act

This bill provides that a person may be considered a joint employer in relation to an employee under federal labor law 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 control may by demonstrated by hiring and discharging employees, determining individual employee rates of pay and benefits, day-to-day supervision of employees, assigning individual work schedules, positions, and tasks, and administering employee discipline.

Cosponsors 92

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Apr 25, 2023 to May 2, 2024; 61 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
R-KY	Andy Barr	Original	Apr 25, 2023
R-IA	Ashley Hinson	Original	Apr 25, 2023
R-GA	Austin Scott	Original	Apr 25, 2023
R-OH	Bill Johnson	Original	Apr 25, 2023
R-VA	Bob Good	Original	Apr 25, 2023
R-KY	Brett Guthrie	Original	Apr 25, 2023
R-TX	Brian Babin	Original	Apr 25, 2023
R-UT	Burgess Owens	Original	Apr 25, 2023
R-FL	Byron Donalds	Original	Apr 25, 2023
R-NC	Chuck Edwards	Original	Apr 25, 2023
R-NY	Claudia Tenney	Original	Apr 25, 2023
R-LA	Clay Higgins	Original	Apr 25, 2023
R-TX	Dan Crenshaw	Original	Apr 25, 2023
R-TN	David Kustoff	Original	Apr 25, 2023
R-OH	David P. Joyce	Original	Apr 25, 2023
R-GA	Earl L. "Buddy" Carter	Original	Apr 25, 2023
R-NY	Elise M. Stefanik	Original	Apr 25, 2023
R-AR	Eric A. "Rick" Crawford	Original	Apr 25, 2023
R-MO	Eric Burlison	Original	Apr 25, 2023
R-IN	Erin Houchin	Original	Apr 25, 2023
R-PA	Glenn Thompson	Original	Apr 25, 2023
R-TX	Jake Ellzey	Original	Apr 25, 2023
R-KS	Jake LaTurner	Original	Apr 25, 2023
R-SC	Jeff Duncan	Original	Apr 25, 2023
R-IN	Jim Banks	Original	Apr 25, 2023
R-SC	Joe Wilson	Original	Apr 25, 2023
R-MI	John R. Moolenaar	Original	Apr 25, 2023
R-TN	John W. Rose	Original	Apr 25, 2023
R-LA	Julia Letlow	Original	Apr 25, 2023
R-FL	Kat Cammack	Original	Apr 25, 2023
R-OK	Kevin Hern	Original	Apr 25, 2023
R-TX	Lance Gooden	Original	Apr 25, 2023
R-FL	Laurel M. Lee	Original	Apr 25, 2023
R-CO	Lauren Boebert	Original	Apr 25, 2023
R-PA	Lloyd Smucker	Original	Apr 25, 2023
R-IA	Mariannette Miller-Meeks	Original	Apr 25, 2023
R-GA	Marjorie Taylor Greene	Original	Apr 25, 2023
R-IL	Mary E. Miller	Original	Apr 25, 2023
R-TX	Michael C. Burgess	Original	Apr 25, 2023
R-MS	Michael Guest	Original	Apr 25, 2023
R-CA	Michelle Steel	Original	Apr 25, 2023
R-IL	Mike Bost	Original	Apr 25, 2023
R-GA	Mike Collins	Original	Apr 25, 2023
R-MS	Mike Ezell	Original	Apr 25, 2023
R-SC	Nancy Mace	Original	Apr 25, 2023
R-TX	Nathaniel Moran	Original	Apr 25, 2023
R-FL	Neal P. Dunn	Original	Apr 25, 2023
R-NY	Nicholas A. Langworthy	Original	Apr 25, 2023
R-SC	Ralph Norman	Original	Apr 25, 2023
R-TX	Randy K. Weber, Sr.	Original	Apr 25, 2023
R-GA	Rick W. Allen	Original	Apr 25, 2023
R-ID	Russ Fulcher	Original	Apr 25, 2023
R-WI	Scott Fitzgerald	Original	Apr 25, 2023
R-FL	Scott Franklin	Original	Apr 25, 2023
R-PA	Scott Perry	Original	Apr 25, 2023
R-TN	Tim Burchett	Original	Apr 25, 2023
R-MI	Tim Walberg	Original	Apr 25, 2023
R-KS	Tracey Mann	Original	Apr 25, 2023
R-MS	Trent Kelly	Original	Apr 25, 2023
R-NC	Virginia Foxx	Original	Apr 25, 2023
R-SC	William R. Timmons IV	Original	Apr 25, 2023
R-MO	Blaine Luetkemeyer		Apr 26, 2023
R-AL	Jerry L. Carl		Apr 26, 2023
R-FL	Mario Diaz-Balart		Apr 26, 2023
R-AR	Steve Womack		Apr 26, 2023
R-FL	Cory Mills		Apr 27, 2023
R-WY	Harriet M. Hageman		Apr 27, 2023
R-MN	Michelle Fischbach		Apr 27, 2023
R-NY	Brandon Williams		Apr 28, 2023
R-TX	Pete Sessions		Apr 28, 2023
R-FL	Carlos A. Gimenez		May 9, 2023
R-WA	Cathy McMorris Rodgers		May 9, 2023
R-IN	Larry Bucshon		May 9, 2023
R-TN	Mark E. Green		May 9, 2023
R-TX	Pat Fallon		May 9, 2023
R-NY	Andrew R. Garbarino		May 11, 2023
R-IN	Rudy Yakym III		May 23, 2023
R-NC	Richard Hudson		Jun 5, 2023
R-FL	John H. Rutherford		Jun 12, 2023
R-TX	Ronny Jackson		Jun 12, 2023
R-AZ	Debbie Lesko		Jun 22, 2023
R-PA	Daniel Meuser		Jun 30, 2023
R-FL	W. Gregory Steube		Jul 6, 2023
R-NC	David Rouzer		Jul 17, 2023
R-CO	Ken Buck		Jul 26, 2023
R-TX	Roger Williams		Aug 1, 2023
R-OK	Stephanie I. Bice		Sep 8, 2023
R-MN	Brad Finstad		Jan 11, 2024
R-TN	Andrew Ogles		Jan 30, 2024
R-WI	Glenn Grothman		Apr 11, 2024
R-NV	Mark E. Amodei		Apr 11, 2024
R-TN	Diana Harshbarger		May 2, 2024

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 Apr 25, 2023

Actions 2

Everything that happened, newest first.

Apr 25, 2023Introduced in House
Apr 25, 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

Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: clause 3 of section 8 of article 1 of the Constitution The single subject of this legislation is: the definition of a joint employer relationship

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 169, no. 69, April 25, 2023, page H1948.

Related bills 4

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
S 1201	Employee Rights Act	Related bill	Apr 19, 2023
S 1261	Save Local Business Act	Identical bill	Apr 25, 2023
HR 2700	Employee Rights Act	Related bill	Apr 28, 2023
HR 3185	Save Local Business Act	Reintroduction of	May 13, 2021

Titles 2

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: To clarify the treatment of 2 or more employers as joint employers under the National Labor Relations Act and the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.
Short Title(s) as Introduced: Save Local Business Act

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Labor and Employment.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Apr 25, 2023Introduced in House

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