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| 105-s-2635 | 105 | s | 2635 | 21st Century Retirement Savings Act | Labor and Employment | 1998-10-14 | 1998-10-14 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. | Senate | Sen. Gregg, Judd [R-NH] | NH | R | G000445 | 1 | TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: New Employer Pension Plans Must Be 401(k) Plans and Not 403(b) or 457 Plans Title II: Safe Annuities and Trusts Title III: Enhanced Portability of Retirement Plans Title IV: Credit for Pension Plan Startup Costs of Small Employers Title V: Miscellaneous Improvements to Pension Plans 21st Century Retirement Savings Act - Title I: New Employer Pension Plans Must Be 401(k) Plans and Not 403(b) or 457 Plans - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require new State and local government and tax-exempt organization pension plans to be 401(k) plans. Title II: Safe Annuities and Trusts - Requires employers to establish SAFE annuities (a defined individual retirement annuity). Title III: Enhanced Portability of Retirement Plans - Permits specified rollovers. Makes other revisions concerning portability. Title IV: Credit for Pension Plan Startup Costs of Small Employers - Establishes a small employer pension plan cost startup credit. Title V: Miscellaneous Improvements to Pension Plans - Permits IRA "catch-up" contributions. Repeals the 25 percent limitation on defined contribution plans. Provides for faster vesting of employer matching contributions. Revises provisions concerning: (1) pension benefit statements; and (2) assignment and alienation. Sets penalties for pension plans failing to meet requirements. | 2025-08-21T16:14:47Z | |
| 105-hr-4823 | 105 | hr | 4823 | 21st Century Retirement Savings Act | Labor and Employment | 1998-10-13 | 1998-10-13 | Referred to House Education and the Workforce | House | Rep. Kolbe, Jim [R-AZ-5] | AZ | R | K000306 | 1 | TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: New Employer Pension Plans Must Be 401(k) Plans and Not 403(b) or 457 Plans Title II: Safe Annuities and Trusts Title III: Enhanced Portability of Retirement Plans Title IV: Credit for Pension Plan Startup Costs of Small Employers Title V: Miscellaneous Improvements to Pension Plans 21st Century Retirement Savings Act - Title I: New Employer Pension Plans Must Be 401(k) Plans and Not 403(b) or 457 Plans - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require new State and local government and tax-exempt organization pension plans to be 401(k) plans. Title II: Safe Annuities and Trusts - Requires employers to establish SAFE annuities (a defined individual retirement annuity). Title III: Enhanced Portability of Retirement Plans - Permits specified rollovers. Makes other revisions concerning portability. Title IV: Credit for Pension Plan Startup Costs of Small Employers - Establishes a small employer pension plan cost startup credit. Title V: Miscellaneous Improvements to Pension Plans - Permits IRA "catch-up" contributions. Repeals the 25 percent limitation on defined contribution plans. Provides for faster vesting of employer matching contributions. Revises provisions concerning: (1) pension benefit statements; and (2) assignment and alienation. Sets penalties for pension plans failing to meet requirements. | 2025-08-21T16:11:29Z | |
| 105-s-2624 | 105 | s | 2624 | Rural Employment in Telecommunications Industry Act of 1998 | Labor and Employment | 1998-10-10 | 1998-10-10 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. | Senate | Sen. Domenici, Pete V. [R-NM] | NM | R | D000407 | 0 | Rural Employment in Telecommunications Industry Act of 1998 - Directs the Secretary of Labor to establish a program to promote rural employment in the telecommunications industry through grants to States for telecommunications employment and training projects. Requires such projects to train eligible individuals for new telecommunications industry jobs in low-income rural areas pursuant to arrangements with employers participating in the project. Includes as eligible individuals: (1) a resident of a low-income rural area; (2) a low-income individual; (3) a dislocated worker from the oil and natural gas exploration and development industry; (4) an out-of-school youth; (5) a disabled individual; (6) an individual receiving assistance under the State temporary assistance for needy families program (part A of title IV (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) of the Social Security Act); (7) a veteran; (8) a displaced homemaker; (9) an older individual; (10) a homeless individual; (11) an individual eligible to participate in certain activities carried out under the Workforce Investment Act of 1998; (12) a long-term unemployed individual or individual with multiple barriers to employment; and (13) an individual who has been assessed and determined to need intensive services. Allows the Secretary to make grants to no more than three States. Outlines application requirements, including submission of a State plan containing certain information and assurances. Provides a priority for the determination of grant awards. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1999 through 2003. | 2025-08-21T16:13:08Z | |
| 105-hr-4770 | 105 | hr | 4770 | Democratic Rights for Union Members Act of 1998 | Labor and Employment | 1998-10-09 | 1998-10-13 | Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2107-2109) | House | Rep. Fawell, Harris W. [R-IL-13] | IL | R | F000049 | 0 | Democratic Rights for Union Members Act of 1998 - Amends the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 to allow a trusteeship (for authorization control of a union) to be authorized only after a fair hearing either before the executive board or another body provided by the constitution and bylaws of the labor organization. Requires a labor organization to show by clear and convincing proof that the continuation of the trusteeship is necessary for an allowable purpose in order to prevent it from being presumed invalid in specified proceedings under the Act and having its discontinuance decreed, automatically 18 months after its authorization. Authorizes the court, if the labor organization makes such a successful showing for continuation, to dismiss the complaint or retain jurisdiction of the cause on such conditions and for such period as it deems appropriate. Requires, upon dissolution of a trusteeship, the previously elected officers of the local union to be reinstated or a new election promptly held. Directs a court to supervise such an election if it has ordered an election after it has dissolved a trusteeship. Requires elections at least once every four years, by secret ballot among members in good standing, of officers of intermediate bodies, such as general committees, system boards, joint boards or joint councils who engage in negotiation, administration or enforcement of collective agreements, or exercise control over the finances or other major functions of local unions. Allows officers of other intermediate bodies to be elected by representatives of such members who have been elected by secret ballot. | 2025-08-21T16:13:06Z | |
| 105-hr-4778 | 105 | hr | 4778 | To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to clarify the exemption for houseparents from the minimum wage and maximum hours requirements of that Act, and for other purposes. | Labor and Employment | 1998-10-09 | 1998-10-10 | Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2039) | House | Rep. Pitts, Joseph R. [R-PA-16] | PA | R | P000373 | 13 | Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to exempt from minimum wage and overtime compensation requirements any employees of private nonprofit institutions who are employed to serve as houseparents for individuals who are: (1) abused, neglected, delinquent, orphaned, homeless, drug dependent, emotionally impaired children, or children who suffer from family dysfunction; (2) single, pregnant women ages 14 to 35; (3) single individuals ages 14 to 35 with children under the age of five; or (4) mentally handicapped or mentally ill. Allows such exemption only if the individuals served have their primary residence at facilities of such institutions, and only if the houseparents: (1) reside with such individuals at such facilities for at least 72 hours a week; (2) receive free board and lodging from such enterprises; and (3) are compensated at an annual rate of at least $8,000. | 2025-07-21T19:44:15Z | |
| 105-hr-4741 | 105 | hr | 4741 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permit 401(k) contributions which would otherwise be limited by employer contributions to employee stock ownership plans. | Labor and Employment | 1998-10-08 | 1998-10-08 | Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. | House | Rep. Crane, Philip M. [R-IL-8] | IL | R | C000873 | 1 | Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit employers to make contributions to employees' 401(k) plans regardless of employer contributions to employee stock ownership plans. | 2025-01-02T17:51:37Z | |
| 105-s-2579 | 105 | s | 2579 | A bill to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to permit certain youth to perform certain work with wood products. | Labor and Employment | 1998-10-08 | 1998-10-08 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. | Senate | Sen. Specter, Arlen [R-PA] | PA | R | S000709 | 0 | Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to exempt from certain child labor restrictions the employment, inside or outside of businesses where machinery is used to process wood products, of youth between ages 14 and 18 who are exempt, by statute or judicial order, from compulsory school attendance beyond the eighth grade. Permits employment of such a youth if: (1) there is an adult present in a supervisory capacity; and (2) the youth does not operate or assist in the operation of power-driven woodworking machines. | 2025-04-21T12:24:17Z | |
| 105-s-2556 | 105 | s | 2556 | Employment Security Financing Act of 1998 | Labor and Employment | 1998-10-06 | 1998-10-06 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. | Senate | Sen. DeWine, Mike [R-OH] | OH | R | D000294 | 0 | TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Amendments to the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 Title II: Unemployment Trust Fund Accounts Title III: Grants to States for Employment Security Administration Title IV: Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1998 Title V: Federal Employment Security Service Title VI: Advances to State Unemployment Compensation Benefit Accounts Title VII: Conforming Amendments Employment Security Financing Act of 1998 - Title I: Amendment to the Internal Revenue Code of 1996 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) Chapter 23 to revise Federal Unemployment Tax Act (FUTA) employer excise tax rate requirements. (Sec. 101) Repeals the 0.2 surtax for calendar years 2004 through 2007. (Ends the current FUTA employer tax rate of 6.2 percent of total employee wages after 2003, and begins a 6.0 rate in 2004.) Requires, for calendar year 2000 and thereafter, such FUTA tax, including accounts receivable from prior years, to be collected by the State agencies responsible for administration of the State unemployment compensation law as agents for the Secretary of the Treasury. Requires amounts collected by such State agencies to be deposited in: (1) the Employment Security Administration Account (the ESAA) within the Unemployment Trust Fund (the Fund), for years prior to calendar year 2003; and (2) the State's Employment Security Administration Account (State ESAA) within the Fund, for calendar year 2003 and thereafter. Requires amounts collected after January 1, 2000, by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to be deposited in the Employment Security Transition Account (Transition ESA) within the Fund. (Sec. 103) Sets forth additional requirements for approval of State laws. (Sec. 105) Revises the definition of State unemployment funds. (Sec. 106) Defines a State Employment Security Administration Account (State ESAA) as a special account within the Unemployment Trust Fund (the Fund) to provide administrative funds to pay the cost of services … | 2025-08-21T16:12:27Z | |
| 105-hr-4701 | 105 | hr | 4701 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that an individual who leaves employment because of sexual harassment will, for purposes of determining such individual's eligibility for unemployment compensation, be treated as having left such employment for good cause. | Labor and Employment | 1998-10-05 | 1998-10-05 | Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. | House | Rep. Mink, Patsy T. [D-HI-2] | HI | D | M000797 | 0 | Amends Internal Revenue Code provisions concerning approval of State unemployment compensation laws to provide that an individual who leaves employment because of sexual harassment will, for purposes of determining such individual's eligibility for unemployment compensation, be treated as having left such employment for good cause, if the individual meets the State law requirements relating to availability for work and active search for work. | 2025-01-02T17:51:36Z | |
| 105-hr-4702 | 105 | hr | 4702 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that an individual who leaves employment because of loss of child care will, for purposes of determining such individual's eligibility for unemployment compensation, be treated as having left such employment for good cause. | Labor and Employment | 1998-10-05 | 1998-10-05 | Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. | House | Rep. Mink, Patsy T. [D-HI-2] | HI | D | M000797 | 0 | Amends Internal Revenue Code provisions concerning approval of State unemployment compensation laws to provide that an individual who leaves employment because of loss of child care will, for purposes of determining such individual's eligibility for unemployment compensation, be treated as having left such employment for good cause, if the individual meets the State law requirements relating to availability for work and active search for work. | 2025-01-02T17:51:37Z | |
| 105-s-2479 | 105 | s | 2479 | Commission on the Advancement of Women and Minorities in Science, Engineering, and Technology Development Act | Labor and Employment | 1998-09-16 | 1998-09-16 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. | Senate | Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME] | ME | R | S000663 | 0 | Commission on the Advancement of Women and Minorities in Science, Engineering, and Technology Development Act - Establishes the Commission on the Advancement of Women and Minorities in Science, Engineering, and Technology Development. Directs the Commission to review available research and conduct additional necessary research to: (1) identify the number of women, minorities, and individuals with disabilities in the United States in specific types of occupations in science, engineering, and technology development; (2) examine the preparedness of such persons to pursue careers in such fields and to advance to positions of greater responsibility within academia, industry, and government; (3) describe the practices and policies of employers and labor unions relating to the recruitment, retention, and advancement of such persons in the such fields; (4) identify the opportunities for, and artificial barriers to, the recruitment, retention, and advancement of such persons in such fields; (5) compile a synthesis of available research on lawful practices, policies, and programs that have successfully led to the recruitment, retention, and advancement of such persons in such fields and issue recommendations with respect to lawful policies that Government (including the Congress and appropriate Federal agencies), academia, and private industry can follow; (6) identify the disincentives for such persons to continue graduate education in such fields and the disincentives that lead to a disproportionate number of such persons leaving such fields; (7) identify university undergraduate programs that are successful in retaining such persons in such fields; (8) assess the extent to which the recommendations of the Task Force on Women, Minorities, and the Handicapped in Science and Technology have been implemented; (9) compile a list of all federally funded reports on the subjects of encouraging such persons to enter the fields of science and engineering and retaining such persons in the science and engineering workforce that hav… | 2025-08-21T16:12:32Z | |
| 105-s-2475 | 105 | s | 2475 | Pension Plan Participant Protection Act of 1998 | Labor and Employment | 1998-09-15 | 1998-09-15 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. | Senate | Sen. D'Amato, Alfonse [R-NY] | NY | R | D000018 | 0 | Pension Plan Participant Protection Act of 1998 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to set forth certain protections for participants and beneficiaries of terminated pension plans. (Sec. 2) Subjects the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) to specified fiduciary duties and to reporting, disclosure, and other requirements while it serves as trustee of a terminated pension plan. Provides for assessment of civil penalties against the PBGC for violation of such requirements and duties. Allows any affected party to bring a civil action for relief against the PBGC as fiduciary. Requires the court, in any such action in which the PBGC is removed as trustee, to select the replacement trustee from a list of qualified candidates provided by the affected party. Requires the PBGC to issue its final determination regarding any benefit payable under a terminated pension plan within one year after the date of its appointment as plan trustee. Requires any review of such a PBGC benefit determination by a Federal district court to be de novo. (Sec. 3) Requires the plan trustee to appoint a committee of participants. Authorizes the court, on request of an affected party, to order: (1) the trustee to appoint additional participants' committees if necessary to assure adequate representation; and (2) that a committee of participants not be appointed in a case in which the plan sponsor is a small business. (Sec. 4) Authorizes the appropriate Federal district court to appoint as the trustee of a terminated pension plan the PBGC, a participants' committee, or any other person. Requires the court, if two or more entities apply to serve as trustee, to base the appointment on its determination of which applicant is most qualified to carry out the fiduciary duties of the trustee without conflicts of interest. Requires payment or reimbursement of reasonable fees or expenses of any trustee other than the PBGC. (Sec. 5) Directs the Secretary of Labor to establish in the Department of Labor an Office of Part… | 2025-08-21T16:12:50Z | |
| 105-hr-4540 | 105 | hr | 4540 | To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to exempt licensed funeral directors from the minimum wage and overtime compensation requirements of that Act. | Labor and Employment | 1998-09-10 | 1998-09-10 | Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. | House | Rep. Graham, Lindsey [R-SC-3] | SC | R | G000359 | 5 | Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to exempt licensed funeral directors from the minimum wage and overtime compensation requirements of such Act. | 2025-07-21T19:44:15Z | |
| 105-hr-4546 | 105 | hr | 4546 | Helpers Job Opportunity Act | Labor and Employment | 1998-09-10 | 1998-09-10 | Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. | House | Rep. Norwood, Charles W. [R-GA-10] | GA | R | N000159 | 13 | Helpers Job Opportunity Act - Provides for the creation of an additional category of laborers or mechanics known as helpers under the Davis-Bacon Act. Requires a helper of a laborer or mechanic to be paid the prevailing wage of helpers of laborers or mechanics employed on similar projects in the same subdivision of the State. | 2025-08-21T16:11:33Z | |
| 105-s-2455 | 105 | s | 2455 | Railroad Retirement Amendment Act of 1998 | Labor and Employment | 1998-09-10 | 1998-09-10 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. | Senate | Sen. Daschle, Thomas A. [D-SD] | SD | D | D000064 | 0 | Railroad Retirement Amendment Act of 1998 - Amends the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974 to preclude the canceling of annuities to certain divorced wives of workers if, through an administrative error, they received such benefits otherwise precluded by the making of a lump sum payment to a widow. Requires payment of such survivor benefits to such a divorced wife who elects to repay the lump sum payment to the Railroad Retirement Board. Authorizes the Board to: (1) withhold up to ten percent of each benefit amount paid after the date of the enactment of this Act toward such reimbursement; and (2) waive such repayment to the extent it would cause an unjust financial hardship for the beneficiary. Makes such amendment applicable to such benefits paid in the past, present, or future. | 2025-08-21T16:11:34Z | |
| 105-sres-270 | 105 | sres | 270 | A resolution to express the sense of the Senate concerning actions that the President of the United States should take to resolve the dispute between the Air Line Pilots Association and Northwest Airlines. | Labor and Employment | 1998-09-02 | 1998-09-02 | Referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. | Senate | Sen. Frist, William H. [R-TN] | TN | R | F000439 | 3 | Expresses the sense of the Senate regarding actions that the President should take to resolve the dispute between the Air Line Pilots Association and Northwest Airlines. | 2025-04-21T12:24:17Z | |
| 105-hr-4450 | 105 | hr | 4450 | CARE Act | Labor and Employment | 1998-08-06 | 1998-08-06 | Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. | House | Rep. Gephardt, Richard A. [D-MO-3] | MO | D | G000132 | 12 | Children's Act for Responsible Employment - CARE Act - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLRA) to revise child labor prohibitions. (Sec. 2) Repeals certain exemptions from child labor prohibitions for agricultural employment. Applies the same age restrictions to agricultural employment as to other forms of employment. Limits exemptions to agricultural labor outside of school hours, if the individual is employed by his or her parent or legal guardian, on a farm owned or operated by such parent or legal guardian. Raises from 16 to 18 years old the minimum age for engaging in hazardous agricultural employment. (Sec. 3) Prohibits employment of individuals under age 16 in youth peddling. Excludes from the definition of youth peddling volunteer selling of goods or services on behalf of not-for-profit organizations. (Sec. 4) Increases civil and criminal penalties for child labor violations. (Sec. 5) Directs the Secretary of Labor to determine the circumstances under which goods tainted by oppressive child labor may be allowed to be shipped or delivered for shipment in interstate commerce. (Sec. 6) Directs the Secretary to establish closer working relationships with non-governmental organizations and with State and local government agencies with responsibility for administering and enforcing labor and safety and health laws. Requires State and local government agencies to submit information regarding injuries and deaths of employees to the Secretary, upon request, for specified use in enforcement and other uses under FLRA. Authorizes the Secretary to reimburse such agencies for such services. (Sec. 7) Directs the Secretaries of Labor and of Agriculture to enter into a memorandum or understanding to coordinate the development and enforcement of standards to minimize child labor. | 2025-08-21T16:14:07Z | |
| 105-hr-4406 | 105 | hr | 4406 | To amend title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to provide that any participant or beneficiary under an employee benefit plan shall be entitled to de novo review in court of benefit determinations under such plan. | Labor and Employment | 1998-08-05 | 1998-08-05 | Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. | House | Rep. Filner, Bob [D-CA-50] | CA | D | F000116 | 0 | Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to entitle any participant or beneficiary under an employee benefit plan to de novo review in court of benefit determinations under such plan. | 2025-07-21T19:44:15Z | |
| 105-hr-4396 | 105 | hr | 4396 | Pension Plan Participant Protection Act of 1998 | Labor and Employment | 1998-08-04 | 1998-08-04 | Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. | House | Rep. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY-9] | NY | D | S000148 | 0 | Pension Plan Participant Protection Act of 1998 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to set forth certain protections for participants and beneficiaries of terminated pension plans. (Sec. 2) Subjects the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) to specified fiduciary duties and to reporting, disclosure, and other requirements while it serves as trustee of a terminated pension plan. Provides for assessment of civil penalties against the PBGC for violation of such requirements and duties. Allows any affected party to bring a civil action for relief against the PBGC as fiduciary. Requires the court, in any such action in which the PBGC is removed as trustee, to select the replacement trustee from a list of qualified candidates provided by the affected party. Requires the PBGC to issue its final determination regarding any benefit payable under a terminated pension plan within one year after the date of its appointment as plan trustee. Requires any review of such a PBGC benefit determination by a Federal district court to be de novo. (Sec. 3) Requires the plan trustee to appoint a committee of participants. Authorizes the court, on request of an affected party, to order: (1) the trustee to appoint additional participants' committees if necessary to assure adequate representation; and (2) that a committee of participants not be appointed in a case in which the plan sponsor is a small business. (Sec. 4) Authorizes the appropriate Federal district court to appoint as the trustee of a terminated pension plan the PBGC, a participants' committee, or any other person. Requires the court, if two or more entities apply to serve as trustee, to base the appointment on its determination of which applicant is most qualified to carry out the fiduciary duties of the trustee without conflicts of interest. Requires payment or reimbursement of reasonable fees or expenses of any trustee other than the PBGC. (Sec. 5) Directs the Secretary of Labor to establish in the Department of Labor an Office of Part… | 2025-08-21T16:15:03Z | |
| 105-s-2405 | 105 | s | 2405 | A bill to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to exempt licensed funeral directors from the minimum wage and overtime compensation requirements of that Act. | Labor and Employment | 1998-07-31 | 1998-07-31 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. | Senate | Sen. Faircloth, Lauch [R-NC] | NC | R | F000437 | 1 | Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to exempt licensed funeral directors from the minimum wage and overtime compensation requirements of such Act. | 2025-04-21T12:24:17Z | |
| 105-s-2383 | 105 | s | 2383 | CARE Act | Labor and Employment | 1998-07-30 | 1998-07-30 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. | Senate | Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA] | IA | D | H000206 | 4 | Children's Act for Responsible Employment - CARE Act - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLRA) to revise child labor prohibitions. (Sec. 2) Repeals certain exemptions from child labor prohibitions for agricultural employment. Applies the same age restrictions to agricultural employment as to other forms of employment. Limits exemptions to agricultural labor outside of school hours, if the individual is employed by his or her parent or legal guardian, on a farm owned or operated by such parent or legal guardian. Raises from 16 to 18 years old the minimum age for engaging in hazardous agricultural employment. (Sec. 3) Prohibits employment of individuals under age 16 in youth peddling. Excludes from the definition of youth peddling volunteer selling of goods or services on behalf of not-for-profit organizations. (Sec. 4) Increases civil and criminal penalties for child labor violations. (Sec. 5) Directs the Secretary of Labor (the Secretary) to determine the circumstances under which goods tainted by oppressive child labor may be allowed to be shipped or delivered for shipment in interstate commerce. (Sec. 6) Directs the Secretary to establish closer working relationships with non-governmental organizations and with State and local government agencies having responsibility for administering and enforcing labor and safety and health laws. Requires State and local government agencies to submit information regarding injuries and deaths of employees to the Secretary, upon request, for specified use in enforcement and other uses under FLRA. Authorizes the Secretary to reimburse such agencies for such services. (Sec. 7) Directs the Secretaries of Labor and of Agriculture to enter into a memorandum of understanding to coordinate the development and enforcement of standards to minimize child labor. (Sec. 8) Authorizes appropriations. | 2025-08-21T16:12:20Z | |
| 105-s-2389 | 105 | s | 2389 | Fair Labor Organizing Act | Labor and Employment | 1998-07-30 | 1998-07-30 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. | Senate | Sen. Wellstone, Paul D. [D-MN] | MN | D | W000288 | 0 | Fair Labor Organizing Act - Amends the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) to revise requirements relating to employer and labor organization (union) presentations to employees on issues relating to union representation. (Sec. 2) Requires that, if an employer (or employer representative) addresses employees on the employer's premises or during work hours on such issues, the employees be assured, without loss of time or pay, an equal opportunity to obtain, in an equivalent manner, information concerning issues from a union. Requires that unions, subject to reasonable regulation by the National Labor Relations Board, have: (1) access to areas in which employees work; (2) the right to use the employer's bulletin boards, mailboxes, and other communication media; and (3) the right to use the employer's facilities for the purpose of meetings with respect to the exercise of the rights guaranteed by NLRA. (Sec. 3) Requires the Board to: (1) award back pay equal to three times the employee's wages upon finding that an employee was discharged as a result of an unfair labor practice; and (2) notify the employee of the right to sue for punitive damages and (compensatory) damages with respect to wrongful discharge under the Labor Management Relations Act, 1947 (LMRA). Amends LMRA to: (1) prohibit employers from discharging employees for exercising rights protected under NLRA; and (2) allow employees to file civil actions in U.S. district courts to recover punitive damages when they have been discharged as a result of an unfair labor practice, or if actionable, in any State court to recover damages based on wrongful discharge. (Sec. 4) Amends NLRA to establish mediation and arbitration procedures for initial contract collective bargaining agreements. Requires mediation if the employer and union cannot reach agreement on their own within 60 days after certification of a new union. Allows either party to transfer matters remaining in controversy to the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service for binding arbitration if the… | 2025-08-21T16:13:22Z | |
| 105-s-2339 | 105 | s | 2339 | Pension Coverage and Portability Act | Labor and Employment | 1998-07-21 | 1998-07-21 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. | Senate | Sen. Graham, Bob [D-FL] | FL | D | G000352 | 7 | TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Expanding Coverage for Small Business Title II: Increasing Pension Access and Fairness for Women and Children Title III: Increasing Portability of Pension Plans Title IV: Strengthening Pension Security and Enforcement Title V: Encouraging Retirement Education Title VI: Reducing Red Tape Title VII: Plan Amendments Pension Coverage and Portability Act - Title I: Expanding Coverage for Small Business - Amends the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to revise requirements relating to pension plan loans for Subchapter S owners, partners, and sole proprietors. (Sec. 102) Allows an employer to establish payroll deductions for contributions to employee individual retirement plans without incurring ERISA liability. (Sec. 103) Amends the IRC to allow an eligible employer to establish and maintain a SAFE annuity (an individual retirement annuity) or a SAFE trust (a trust forming part of a defined benefit plan), both to be funded by the employer. Makes the employer contributions deductible without limitation and otherwise provides for the treatment of contributions and distributions. Mandates a penalty for early withdrawals. Requires simplified employer reports for SAFE annuities and simplified actuarial reports for SAFE trusts. Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to exempt SAFE trusts from coverage requirements and SAFE annuities from certain employer reporting requirements. (Sec. 104) Amends the IRC to modify definitions applicable to special rules for top-heavy plans. Requires consideration of employer matching contributions in determining whether a defined contribution plan meets minimum contribution requirements. (Sec. 105) Allows employers to elect salary reduction only arrangements under Code requirements for simple plans. (Sec. 106) Establishes a small employer pension plan credit. (Sec. 107) Increases (from $6,000 to $8,000) limits for deferrals to simple … | 2025-08-21T16:12:24Z | |
| 105-hr-4238 | 105 | hr | 4238 | Small Business Employee Retirement Protection Act of 1998 | Labor and Employment | 1998-07-16 | 1998-07-17 | Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1330) | House | Rep. Gejdenson, Sam [D-CT-2] | CT | D | G000120 | 12 | Small Business Employee Retirement Protection Act of 1998 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to establish requirements, for pension plans covering less than 100 participants, relating to holders of plan assets and to annual asset statements. | 2025-08-21T16:13:53Z | |
| 105-hr-4257 | 105 | hr | 4257 | To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to permit certain youth to perform certain work with wood products. | Labor and Employment | 1998-07-16 | 1998-10-05 | Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time. | House | Rep. Pitts, Joseph R. [R-PA-16] | PA | R | P000373 | 14 | Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to exempt from certain child labor restrictions the employment, inside or outside of businesses where machinery is used to process wood products, of individuals between ages 14 and 18 who are members of religious sects that do not permit formal education beyond the eighth grade. Permits such youth employment if the individual: (1) is supervised by an adult relative or by an adult member of the same religious sect or division; (2) does not operate or assist in the operation of power-driven woodworking machines; (3) is protected from wood particles or other flying debris within the workplace by a barrier appropriate to such potential hazard or by maintaining a sufficient distance from machinery in operation; and (4) is required to use personal protective equipment to prevent exposure to excessive levels of noise and sawdust. | 2025-07-21T19:44:15Z | |
| 105-s-2320 | 105 | s | 2320 | A bill to amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act 0f 1974 to clarify that an individual account plan shall not be treated as requiring investment in employer securities if an employee can withdraw an equivalent amount from the plan. | Labor and Employment | 1998-07-16 | 1998-07-16 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. | Senate | Sen. Hollings, Ernest F. [D-SC] | SC | D | H000725 | 1 | Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to provide that an individual account plan shall not be treated as requiring investment in employer securities if an employee can withdraw an equivalent amount from the plan. | 2025-01-14T18:59:41Z | |
| 105-hr-4231 | 105 | hr | 4231 | Industrial Emergency Notification Act | Labor and Employment | 1998-07-15 | 1998-07-15 | Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. | House | Rep. Rothman, Steven R. [D-NJ-9] | NJ | D | R000462 | 1 | Industrial Emergency Notification Act - Directs the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to issue a regulation that requires employers to: (1) notify outside emergency responders when conditions and circumstances occur which require outside emergency response, including workplace evacuations and other conditions specified in such regulation; (2) describe in their emergency response plans or emergency action plans additional conditions and circumstances that require outside emergency response; and (3) obtain the written agreement of the outside responders as to such additional conditions and circumstances. | 2025-08-21T16:11:25Z | |
| 105-s-2267 | 105 | s | 2267 | A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to grant relief to participants in multiemployer plans from certain section 415 limits on defined benefit pension plans. | Labor and Employment | 1998-07-07 | 1998-07-07 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. | Senate | Sen. D'Amato, Alfonse [R-NY] | NY | R | D000018 | 2 | Amends the Internal Revenue Code with respect to limitations on benefits and contributions under qualified plans to apply to multiemployer plans the same treatment in the adjustment to the $90,000 limit on benefits, where the benefit begins before the social security retirement age, as is accorded to plans maintained by governments and tax-exempt organizations. Exempts multiemployer plans from the alternative benefit limit of 100 percent of the participant's average compensation for his or her high three years. Prohibits a multiemployer plan from being combined or aggregated with any other plan for the purpose of applying limitations. | 2025-01-14T18:59:41Z | |
| 105-s-2245 | 105 | s | 2245 | Industrial Emergency Notification Act of 1998 | Labor and Employment | 1998-06-26 | 1998-06-26 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. | Senate | Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ] | NJ | D | L000123 | 4 | Industrial Emergency Notification Act of 1998 - Directs the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to issue a regulation that requires employers to: (1) notify outside emergency responders when conditions and circumstances occur which require outside emergency response, including workplace evacuations and other conditions specified in such regulation; (2) describe in their emergency response plans or emergency action plans additional conditions and circumstances that require outside emergency response; and (3) obtain the written agreement of the outside responders as to such additional conditions and circumstances. | 2025-08-21T16:11:45Z | |
| 105-s-2249 | 105 | s | 2249 | Retirement Accessibility, Security, and Portability Act of 1998 | Labor and Employment | 1998-06-26 | 1998-06-26 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. | Senate | Sen. Daschle, Thomas A. [D-SD] | SD | D | D000064 | 10 | TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Pension Access and Coverage Subtitle A: Improved Access to Individual Retirement Savings Subtitle B: Secure Money Annuity or Retirement (SMART) Trusts Subtitle C: Improved Fairness in Retirement Plan Benefits Title II: Security Subtitle A: General Provisions Subtitle B: ERISA Enforcement Subtitle C: Increase in Excise Tax on Employer Reversions Title III: Portability Title IV: Comprehensive Women's Pension Protection Subtitle A: Pension Reform Subtitle B: Protection of Rights of Former Spouses to Pension Benefits Under Certain Government and Government-Sponsored Retirement Programs Subtitle C: Modifications of Joint and Survivor Annuity Requirements Title V: Date for Adoption of Plan Amendments Retirement Accessibility, Security, and Portability Act of 1998 - Title I: Pension Access and Coverage - Subtitle A: Improved Access to Individual Retirement Savings - Amends the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) to allow a tax credit for up to a maximum $500 of the qualified start-up costs of eligible small employers in establishing a qualified pension plan or qualified employer payroll deduction system. (Sec. 102) Provides for an exclusion from an employee's gross income of payroll deduction contributions to individual retirement accounts (IRAs). (Sec. 103) Provides for a nonrefundable tax credit for contributions to individual retirement plans. (Sec. 104) Allows the use without penalty of distributions from certain plans during periods of unemployment. Subtitle B: Secure Money Annuity or Retirement (SMART) Trusts - Establishes a defined benefit plan option for small businesses, to be known as secure money annuity or retirement (SMART) trusts. Subtitle C: Improved Fairness in Retirement Plan Benefits - Amends the IRC to require a specified minimum employer contributi… | 2025-08-21T16:14:45Z | |
| 105-hr-4152 | 105 | hr | 4152 | Retirement Accessibility, Security, and Portability Act of 1998 | Labor and Employment | 1998-06-25 | 1998-07-09 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads. | House | Rep. Gejdenson, Sam [D-CT-2] | CT | D | G000120 | 52 | TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Pension Access and Coverage Subtitle A: Improved Access to Individual Retirement Savings Subtitle B: Secure Money Annuity or Retirement (SMART) Trusts Subtitle C: Improved Fairness in Retirement Plan Benefits Title II: Security Subtitle A: General Provisions Subtitle B: ERISA Enforcement Subtitle C: Increase in Excise Tax on Employer Reversions Title III: Portability Title IV: Comprehensive Women's Pension Protection Subtitle A: Pension Reform Subtitle B: Protection of Rights of Former Spouses to Pension Benefits Under Certain Government and Government-Sponsored Retirement Programs Subtitle C: Modifications of Joint and Survivor Annuity Requirements Title V: Date for Adoption of Plan Amendments Retirement Accessibility, Security, and Portability Act of 1998 - Title I: Pension Access and Coverage - Subtitle A: Improved Access to Individual Retirement Savings - Amends the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) to allow a tax credit for up to a maximum $500 of the qualified start-up costs of eligible small employers in establishing a qualified pension plan or qualified employer payroll deduction system. (Sec. 102) Provides for an exclusion from an employee's gross income of payroll deduction contributions to individual retirement accounts (IRAs). (Sec. 103) Provides for a nonrefundable tax credit for contributions to individual retirement plans. (Sec. 104) Allows the use without penalty of distributions from certain plans during periods of unemployment. Subtitle B: Secure Money Annuity or Retirement (SMART) Trusts - Establishes a defined benefit plan option for small businesses, to be known as secure money annuity or retirement (SMART) trusts. Subtitle C: Improved Fairness in Retirement Plan Benefits - Amends the IRC to require a specified minimum employer contribution to SIMPLE retirement accounts. Provides … | 2025-08-21T16:11:13Z | |
| 105-hr-4178 | 105 | hr | 4178 | Family Leave Pension Relief Act of 1998 | Labor and Employment | 1998-06-25 | 1998-06-25 | Referred to House Education and the Workforce | House | Rep. Price, David E. [D-NC-4] | NC | D | P000523 | 0 | Family Leave Pension Relief Act of 1998 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to count periods of leave permitted by the Family Medical Leave Act of 1993 towards hours of service needed for the fulfillment of pension participation and vesting rules. | 2025-08-21T16:11:48Z | |
| 105-s-2215 | 105 | s | 2215 | Strategic Transitional Employment Program Act | Labor and Employment | 1998-06-25 | 1998-06-25 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. | Senate | Sen. Wellstone, Paul D. [D-MN] | MN | D | W000288 | 0 | TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Grants to States for Development of Employment Programs Title II: Grants to States for Implementation of Employment Programs Subtitle A: State Activities Subtitle B: Local Activities Subtitle C: Activities in Outlying Areas Subtitle D: General Provisions Title III: Federal Grants to Local Areas for Implementation of Employment Programs Title IV: Grants to Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian Organizations for Employment Programs Title V: Community Development Venture Capital Title VI: Revenue Provisions Strategic Transitional Employment Program Act - Title I: Grants to States for Development of Employment Programs - Directs the Secretary of Labor to make grants to assist eligible States and outlying areas in developing strategic transitional employment programs that provide community employment, in local areas with identified communities. (Sec. 101) Defines outlying areas as the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of Palau. Sets the Federal share at two-thirds of such program development costs. (Sec. 104) Authorizes appropriations. Title II: Grants to States for Implementation of Employment Programs - Subtitle A: State Activities - Directs the Secretary to make allotments to assist eligible States in making grants to local areas, in order to implement employment programs in the States. (Sec. 201) Bases such State allotments on numbers of unemployed individuals and individuals in poverty. Sets the Federal share at two-thirds of such program implementation costs. (Sec. 202) Sets forth requirements for: (1) State plans, including priorities for selection of local areas with identifiable communities; and (2) State administration and reports. Subtitle B: Local Activities - Requires States receiving such allotments to use the… | 2025-08-21T16:12:52Z | |
| 105-hr-4123 | 105 | hr | 4123 | Retirement Savings Assistance Act | Labor and Employment | 1998-06-24 | 1998-06-24 | Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. | House | Rep. Weller, Jerry [R-IL-11] | IL | R | W000273 | 0 | Retirement Savings Assistance Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) permit specified additional pension contributions for an individual who has attained the age of 35 (but not the age of 50), and who was not a plan participant during the previous five years, until such individual attains the age of 50; and (2) increase the dollar and repeal the 25 percent defined contribution plan limits. | 2025-08-21T16:13:32Z | |
| 105-hr-4097 | 105 | hr | 4097 | Strategic Transitional Employment Program Act | Labor and Employment | 1998-06-19 | 1998-06-23 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources. | House | Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large] | DC | D | N000147 | 0 | TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Grants to States for Development of Employment Programs Title II: Grants to States for Implementation of Employment Programs Subtitle A: State Activities Subtitle B: Local Activities Subtitle C: Activities in Outlying Areas Subtitle D: General Provisions Title III: Federal Grants to Local Areas for Implementation of Employment Programs Title IV: Grants to Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian Organizations for Employment Programs Title V: Community Development Venture Capital Title VI: Revenue Provisions Strategic Transitional Employment Program Act - Title I: Grants to States for Development of Employment Programs - Directs the Secretary of Labor to make grants to assist eligible States and outlying areas in developing strategic transitional employment programs that provide community employment, in local areas with identified communities. (Sec. 101) Defines outlying areas as the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of Palau. Sets the Federal share at two-thirds of such program development costs. (Sec. 104) Authorizes appropriations. Title II: Grants to States for Implementation of Employment Programs - Subtitle A: State Activities - Directs the Secretary to make allotments to assist eligible States in making grants to local areas, in order to implement employment programs in the States. (Sec. 201) Bases such State allotments on numbers of unemployed individuals and individuals in poverty. Sets the Federal share at two-thirds of such program implementation costs. (Sec. 202) Sets forth requirements for: (1) State plans, including priorities for selection of local areas with identifiable communities; and (2) State administration and reports. Subtitle B: Local Activities - Requires States receiving such allotments to use the… | 2025-08-21T16:13:34Z | |
| 105-s-2174 | 105 | s | 2174 | A bill to amend the Wagner-Peyser Act to clarify that nothing in that Act shall prohibit a State from using individuals other than merit-staffed of civil service employees of the State (or any political subdivision thereof) in providing employment services under that Act. | Labor and Employment | 1998-06-16 | 1998-06-16 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. | Senate | Sen. Abraham, Spencer [R-MI] | MI | R | A000355 | 0 | Amends the Wagner-Peyser Act to declare that nothing in such Act shall prohibit a State from using individuals other than merit-staffed or civil service employees of the State (or any of its local governments) in providing employment services under such Act. | 2025-04-21T12:24:17Z | |
| 105-hr-4037 | 105 | hr | 4037 | To require the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to recognize that electronic forms of providing Material Safety Data Sheets provide the same level of access to information as paper copies and to improve the presentation of safety and emergency information on such Data Sheets. | Labor and Employment | 1998-06-11 | 1998-08-31 | Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. | House | Rep. Granger, Kay [R-TX-12] | TX | R | G000377 | 11 | Directs the Secretary of Labor to revise certain regulations under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (OSHA) to: (1) provide that an employer complies with a specified standard if the employer makes information on each hazardous chemical used in the workplace readily accessible to employees through electronic access to Material Standard Data Sheets (MSDSs) under specified conditions; and (2) require prominent display of specified safety information for workers. Directs the Secretary to: (1) study the comprehensibility of specified OSHA required hazard warnings to industrial workers; and (2) make the resulting report available to chemical manufacturers and importers that prepare MSDSs. Directs the Secretary to report to specified congressional committees upon U.S. entry into any international agreement regarding the format or contents of MSDSs or labeling of hazardous chemicals with recommendations for changes to the requirements of this Act. | 2026-03-23T12:47:58Z | |
| 105-s-2144 | 105 | s | 2144 | Sales Incentive Compensation Act | Labor and Employment | 1998-06-09 | 1998-06-09 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. | Senate | Sen. Coverdell, Paul [R-GA] | GA | R | C000813 | 1 | Sales Incentive Compensation Act - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to exempt from minimum wage recordkeeping and overtime compensation requirements any employee in a sales position, if: (1) such position requires specialized or technical knowledge related to products or services being sold; (2) the employee's sales are predominantly to persons or entities to whom the employee has made previous sales or the employee's position does not involve initiating sales contacts; (3) the employee's position requires a detailed understanding of customers' needs; (4) the employee receives a base compensation at a specified minimum rate and additional compensation based on sales attributable to the employee; (5) the employee's aggregate compensation based upon sales reaches a specified minimum level; (6) the employee receives a rate of compensation based upon each sale attributable to the employee which is beyond sales required to reach such minimum level; and (7) the rate of annual compensation or base compensation for an employee who did not work for an employer for an entire calendar year is prorated to reflect annual compensation which would have been earned if the employee had been compensated at the same rate for the entire calendar year. | 2025-08-21T16:11:50Z | |
| 105-hr-3994 | 105 | hr | 3994 | To amend the Wagner-Peyser Act to clarify that nothing in that Act shall prohibit a State from using individuals other than merit-staffed or civil service employees of the State (or any political subdivision thereof) in providing employment services under that Act. | Labor and Employment | 1998-06-04 | 1998-06-04 | Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. | House | Rep. Knollenberg, Joe [R-MI-11] | MI | R | K000288 | 3 | Amends the Wagner-Peyser Act to declare that nothing in such Act shall prohibit a State from using individuals other than merit-staffed or civil service employees of the State (or any of its local governments) in providing employment services under such Act. | 2025-07-21T19:44:15Z | |
| 105-hr-3958 | 105 | hr | 3958 | To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide an overtime compensation exemption for paramedics, emergency medical technicians, and rescue and ambulance personnel trained to provide emergency medical services and provide transport of persons receiving those services who are also trained in fire suppression services. | Labor and Employment | 1998-05-22 | 1998-06-15 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections. | House | Rep. Ehrlich, Robert L., Jr. [R-MD-2] | MD | R | E000093 | 3 | Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide a limited overtime exemption for employees performing emergency medical services and transport (including paramedics, emergency medical technicians, and rescue and ambulance service personnel), if they: (1) are also trained, and have the legal authority and responsibility to engage, in fire suppression services; and (2) are employed by a municipal, county, or State emergency medical service operated by, and under the direct control and supervision of, that jurisdiction's fire department. | 2026-03-23T12:47:58Z | |
| 105-hr-3923 | 105 | hr | 3923 | Community Empowerment and Employee Protection Act | Labor and Employment | 1998-05-20 | 1998-06-05 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power. | House | Rep. Strickland, Ted [D-OH-6] | OH | D | S001004 | 3 | Community Empowerment and Employee Protection Act - Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary of Energy equivalent to the Federal tax paid by the United States Enrichment Corporation in any fiscal year, in order to provide a fund for the Worker and Community Transition Office of the Department of Energy (DOE). Requires DOE to allocate the funds to communities and workers at uranium enrichment plants in Piketon, Ohio, and Paducah, Kentucky, to help train and assist displaced workers in ascertaining future business opportunities. States that such authorization and the fund shall terminate when local unemployment rates in the counties surrounding both facilities are not greater than the average unemployment rate for the States in which such cities are located. | 2025-08-21T16:14:38Z | |
| 105-s-2085 | 105 | s | 2085 | Fairness for Small Business and Employees Act of 1998 | Labor and Employment | 1998-05-14 | 1998-05-14 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. | Senate | Sen. Hutchinson, Tim [R-AR] | AR | R | H001015 | 1 | TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Truth in Employment Title II: Fair Hearing Title III: Attorneys Fees Fairness for Small Business and Employees Act of 1998 - Title I: Truth in Employment - Amends the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) to provide that nothing in specified prohibitions against unfair labor practices by employers shall be construed as requiring an employer to employ any person who is not a bona fide employee applicant, in that such person seeks or has sought employment with the employer with the primary purpose of furthering another employment or agency status. (Sec. 103) Declares that this title shall not affect the rights and responsibilities under NLRA of any employee who is or was a bona fide employee applicant, including the right to: (1) self-organization; (2) form, join, or assist labor organizations; (3) bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing; and (4) engage in other concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection. Title II: Fair Hearing - Directs the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to provide for a hearing upon due notice to determine the appropriateness of the bargaining unit, if a petition for an election requests to certify a unit which includes the employees employed at one or more facilities of a multi-facility employer, and in the absence of an agreement by the parties regarding the appropriateness of the bargaining unit at issue. Requires the NLRB, in making such determination, to consider functional integration, centralized control, common skills, functions and working conditions, permanent and temporary employee interchange, geographical separation, local autonomy, the number of employees, bargaining history, and other factors it considers appropriate. Title III: Attorneys Fees - Provides for awards of attorney's fees and costs in administrative or court proceedings involving the NLRB, without regard to whether the NLRB's position was substantially justified or special circumstan… | 2025-08-21T16:14:42Z | |
| 105-hr-3825 | 105 | hr | 3825 | To amend the National Labor Relations Act to ensure that the National Labor Relations Board does not decline to assert jurisdiction over the horseracing and dogracing industries. | Labor and Employment | 1998-05-11 | 1998-05-29 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations. | House | Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1] | NJ | D | A000210 | 0 | Amends the National Labor Relations Act to prohibit the National Labor Relations Board from declining to assert jurisdiction over any labor dispute involving the horseracing and dogracing industries. | 2026-03-23T12:41:21Z | |
| 105-hr-3826 | 105 | hr | 3826 | To amend the Davis-Bacon Act to provide that a contractor under that Act who has repeated violations of the Act shall have its contract with the United States canceled. | Labor and Employment | 1998-05-11 | 1998-05-29 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections. | House | Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1] | NJ | D | A000210 | 0 | Amends the Davis-Bacon Act to direct the Secretary of Labor, upon determining that a Federal contractor has established a pattern of violations of such Act, to cancel the contract and make such contractor ineligible to receive a Federal contract for a ten-year period, unless the contractor is able to show that such violations were not intentional but were the result of simple and unsystematic error. | 2026-03-23T12:47:58Z | |
| 105-hr-3827 | 105 | hr | 3827 | To require the disclosure under freedom of information provisions of Federal law of certain payroll information under contracts subject to the Davis-Bacon Act. | Labor and Employment | 1998-05-11 | 1998-05-14 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Management, Information and Technology. | House | Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1] | NJ | D | A000210 | 0 | Amends Federal law relating to freedom of information to require the disclosure of certain payroll information under contracts subject to the Davis-Bacon Act. | 2026-03-23T12:17:56Z | |
| 105-hr-3788 | 105 | hr | 3788 | Retirement Security for the 21st Century Act | Labor and Employment | 1998-05-04 | 1998-05-29 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations. | House | Rep. Portman, Rob [R-OH-2] | OH | R | P000449 | 7 | TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Expanding Coverage Title II: Enhancing Fairness for Women and Children Title III: Increasing Portability for Participants Title IV: Strengthening Pension Security and Enforcement Title V: Reducing Regulatory Burdens Retirement Security for the 21st Century Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code (the Code) with respect to pensions. Title I: Expanding Coverage - Restores the amounts of certain limitations formerly in effect under the Code for: (1) defined benefit plans; (2) defined contribution plans; (3) qualified trusts; (4) elective deferrals; (5) deferred compensation plans of State and local governments and tax-exempt organizations; (6) simple retirement accounts; and (7) cost-of-living adjustments. (Sec. 102) Amends the Code and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to revise requirements relating to plan loans for subchapter S owners, partners, and sole proprietors. (Sec. 103) Allows employers to elect salary reduction only arrangements under Code requirements for simple plans. (Sec. 104) Revises specified top-heavy rules. Repeals family aggregation rules. Revises the definition of key employee. Provides that, at the election of the employer, any employee elective contribution to a plan shall not be taken into account for purposes of determining: (1) whether a plan is a top-heavy plan (or whether any aggregation group which includes such plan is a top-heavy group); or (2) compensation. Requires that employer matching contributions be taken into account for purposes of minimum contribution requirements. Revises requirements for qualifications. Provides for distributions during the last year before a determination date is taken into account. Excludes from the definition of top-heavy plan: (1) cash or deferred arrangements using alternative methods of meeting nondiscrimination requirements; and (2) defined contribution plans using alternative methods of meeting nondiscrimination requirements. Provides that elective deferra… | 2026-03-23T12:41:21Z | |
| 105-hr-3769 | 105 | hr | 3769 | Fairness for Working Families Act | Labor and Employment | 1998-04-30 | 1998-04-30 | Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. | House | Rep. Baesler, Scotty [D-KY-6] | KY | D | B000028 | 1 | Fairness for Working Families Act - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA) to provide for enhanced enforcement of equal pay requirements (also known as the Equal Pay Act of 1963). Increases penalties for violations of such requirements. Provides for the Secretary of Labor to seek additional compensatory or punitive damages in such cases. Directs the Secretary to conduct studies and provide information to employers, labor organizations, and the general public concerning the means available to eliminate pay disparities between men and women, including convening a national summit and carrying out other specified activities. Authorizes appropriations. | 2025-08-21T16:11:42Z | |
| 105-hr-3773 | 105 | hr | 3773 | To make permanent certain authority relating to self-employment assistance programs. | Labor and Employment | 1998-04-30 | 1998-05-06 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade. | House | Rep. English, Phil [R-PA-21] | PA | R | E000187 | 3 | Amends the North American Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act to repeal the sunset date for (and thus permanently extend) certain authority relating to self-employment assistance programs. | 2025-01-02T17:50:09Z | |
| 105-s-2021 | 105 | s | 2021 | Technology Skills Partnership Act of 1998 | Labor and Employment | 1998-04-30 | 1998-04-30 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. | Senate | Sen. Sarbanes, Paul S. [D-MD] | MD | D | S000064 | 2 | TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Skill Grants Title II: Planning Grants Technology Skills Partnership Act of 1998 - Title I: Skill Grants - Directs the Secretary of Commerce to make grants to improve the job skills necessary for employment in specific industries. Requires the Secretary to do so acting through the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and in coordination with the Secretary of Labor. Makes eligible for such grants regional consortia that: (1) must have a majority of representatives from not less than ten businesses (or nonprofit organizations that represent businesses) in a common industry; and (2) may have representatives from labor organizations, State and local governments, and educational institutions. Gives priority for such grants to eligible entities that consist of a majority of representatives from small businesses. Sets requirements relating to maximum amount of grants, applications, use of program funds, and matching funds. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: Planning Grants - Directs the Secretary of Commerce to make grants to States to assist businesses, organizations, and agencies in conducting planning to form consortia under title I. Requires the Secretary to do so acting through the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Sets requirements relating to applications and matching funds. Authorizes appropriations. | 2025-08-21T16:11:55Z | |
| 105-hr-3751 | 105 | hr | 3751 | Family and Medical Leave Clarification Act | Labor and Employment | 1998-04-29 | 1998-05-15 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations. | House | Rep. Fawell, Harris W. [R-IL-13] | IL | R | F000049 | 6 | Family and Medical Leave Clarification Act - Amends the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA) to provide that the term serious health condition does not cover short-term conditions for which treatment and recovery are very brief. Lists examples of conditions which are covered by such term. (Sec. 3) Voids specified regulations and opinion letters of the Secretary of Labor under FMLA on the effective date of new final regulations. Directs the Secretary to revise such regulations and issue new proposed and final regulations by certain deadlines. (Sec. 4) Revises requirements for FMLA leave taken intermittently or on a reduced leave scheduleor. Requires certification by the health care provider of the medical necessity of such leave. Authorizes employers to require: (1) an employee to take intermittent leave in increments of up to one-half of a work day; and (2) employees who travel as part of their normal day-to-day work or duty assignments to take leave for the duration of that work or assignment if the employer cannot reasonably accommodate the employee's request to take leave intermittently or on a reduced leave schedule. (Sec. 5) Authorizes an employer who does not exercise the right to substitute other employer-provided leave for FMLA leave to require an employee to request such leave in a timely manner. (Sec. 6) Authorizes an employer to require the employee to choose between FMLA unpaid leave and employer-provided paid absence. (Sec. 7) Requires documentation by objective medical findings of the appropriate medical facts for purposes of certification of a request for leave under FMLA. | 2026-03-23T12:41:21Z | |
| 105-hr-3755 | 105 | hr | 3755 | To express the Sense of Congress that American universities and colleges should adopt rigorous educational merchandise licensing codes of conduct against sweatshop and child labor for merchandise licensed under their names or insignias. | Labor and Employment | 1998-04-29 | 1998-04-29 | Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. | House | Rep. Miller, George [D-CA-7] | CA | D | M000725 | 8 | Expresses the sense of the Congress that all colleges and universities in the United States should adopt rigorous educational merchandise licensing codes of conduct, including specified elements, to assure that university and college licensed merchandise is not made by sweatshop and exploited adult or child labor either domestically or abroad. | 2025-07-21T19:44:15Z | |
| 105-s-1981 | 105 | s | 1981 | Truth in Employment Act | Labor and Employment | 1998-04-23 | 1998-09-14 | Cloture motion to proceed not invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 52-42. Record Vote No: 266. (consideration: CR S10309) | Senate | Sen. Hutchinson, Tim [R-AR] | AR | R | H001015 | 25 | Truth in Employment Act - Amends the National Labor Relations Act to provide that nothing in specified prohibitions against unfair labor practices by employers shall be construed as requiring an employer to employ any person who is not a bona fide employee applicant, in that such person seeks or has sought employment with the employer with the primary purpose of furthering another employment or agency status. | 2025-08-21T16:13:30Z | |
| 105-hr-3697 | 105 | hr | 3697 | Unemployment Compensation Amendment of 1998 | Labor and Employment | 1998-04-21 | 1998-04-21 | Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. | House | Rep. Levin, Sander M. [D-MI-12] | MI | D | L000263 | 7 | Unemployment Compensation Amendment of 1998 - Amends the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970 to: (1) repeal certain State law requirements under the extended unemployment compensation benefit program; (2) establish certain mandatory triggers based on total unemployment; (3) revise requirements for supplemental benefits during high unemployment periods; and (4) modify provisions for alternative triggers that States may establish. Amends title IX (Employment Security Administrative Financing) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to modify the ceiling on the Federal Unemployment Account. Provides for special distributions of funds to the States under SSA title IX. Directs the Secretary of Labor to reserve specified amounts for grants to States to assist in implementing alternative base periods for determining the eligibility of claimants for unemployment compensation. Requires States to achieve or make substantial progress toward achieving certain solvency targets for their unemployment compensation accounts. Directs the Secretary to transfer to other States' accounts the amount that would otherwise be transferred to the account of a State that violates such requirement under SSA title IX. Revises SSA title IX requirements for distribution to States of certain excess amounts in the Employment Security Administration Account as of the close of FY 2002. Amends the North American Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act to extend the self-employment assistance program. Amends the Federal Unemployment Tax Act (FUTA) under the Internal Revenue Code to set forth requirements for treatment of short-time compensation programs. | 2025-08-21T16:12:38Z | |
| 105-hr-3632 | 105 | hr | 3632 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to grant relief to participants in multiemployer plans from certain section 415 limits on defined benefit pensions. | Labor and Employment | 1998-04-01 | 1998-04-01 | Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. | House | Rep. Weller, Jerry [R-IL-11] | IL | R | W000273 | 44 | Amends the Internal Revenue Code with respect to limitations on benefits and contributions under qualified plans to apply to multiemployer plans the same treatment in the adjustment to the $90,000 limit on benefits, where the benefit begins before the Social Security retirement age, as is accorded to plans maintained by governments and tax-exempt organizations. Exempts multiemployer plans from the alternative benefit limit of 100 percent of the participant's average compensation for his or her high three years. | 2025-01-02T17:50:11Z | |
| 105-hr-3683 | 105 | hr | 3683 | Savings Account for Every American Act of 1998 | Labor and Employment | 1998-04-01 | 1998-04-09 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Civil Service. | House | Rep. Sessions, Pete [R-TX-5] | TX | R | S000250 | 0 | TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Personal Retirement Program Title II: Tax-Exempt S.A.F.E. Accounts Title III: Conforming Amendments to the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 Savings Account for Every American Act of 1998 - Title I: Personal Retirement Program - Requires each covered employer to: (1) have in effect throughout each calendar year a S.A.F.E. account payroll deduction program for eligible employees; (2) deduct from the wages of each eligible employee and pay the prescribed employee contribution (6.2 percent of wages) on the employee's behalf to the employee's designated S.A.F.E. account; and (3) after the employee has maintained a S.A.F.E. account for 15 calendar years, pay into it the prescribed employer contribution (6.2 percent of wages). Prohibits the employer from receiving compensation for administering the S.A.F.E. account program. Allows amounts otherwise payable to be accumulated by the employer in certain cases. (Sec. 103) Sets forth guidelines for the designation of S.A.F.E accounts. (Sec. 104) Provides rules for the participation of self-employed individuals in the program (including contributions of 12.4 percent of wages). (Sec. 105) Allows any individual who has been assigned a social security account number, and has been paid wages or has derived self-employment income, to elect to be eligible for the S.A.F.E. account program on or after January 1, 1999. Makes an election ineffective if the individual is entitled to an old age or a disability insurance benefit under title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act. (Sec. 106) Sets forth penalties for failure to establish S.A.F.E. account payroll deduction programs, failure to make required deductions, and other specified program violations. (Sec. 107) Directs the Office of Personnel Management to study and report to the President and the Congress on how to provide for the application of this Act to Federal civilian and military personnel. Title II… | 2025-08-21T16:11:59Z | |
| 105-hr-3684 | 105 | hr | 3684 | Employment Security Financing Act of 1998 | Labor and Employment | 1998-04-01 | 1998-06-23 | Subcommittee Hearings Held. | House | Rep. Shaw, E. Clay, Jr. [R-FL-22] | FL | R | S000303 | 13 | TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Amendments to the Internal Revenue Code of 1996 Title II: Unemployment Trust Fund Accounts Title III: Grants to States for Employment Security Administration Title IV: Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1998 Title V: Federal Employment Security Service Title VI: Advances to State Unemployment Compensation Benefit Accounts Title VII: Conforming Amendments Employment Security Financing Act of 1998 - Title I: Amendments to the Internal Revenue Code of 1996 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) Chapter 23 to revise Federal Unemployment Tax Act (FUTA) employer excise tax rate requirements. (Sec. 101) Repeals the 0.2 surtax for calendar years 2004 through 2007. (Ends the current FUTA employer tax rate of 6.2 percent of total employee wages after 2003, and begins a 6.0 rate in 2004.) Requires, for calendar year 2000 and thereafter, such FUTA tax, including accounts receivable from prior years, to be collected by the State agencies responsible for administration of the State unemployment compensation law as agents for the Secretary of the Treasury. Requires amounts collected by such State agencies to be deposited in: (1) the Employment Security Administration Account (the ESAA) within the Unemployment Trust Fund (the Fund), for years prior to calendar year 2003; and (2) the State's Employment Security Administration Account (State ESAA) within the Fund, for calendar year 2003 and thereafter. Requires amounts collected after January 1, 2000, by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to be deposited in the Employment Security Transition Account (Transition ESA) within the Fund. (Sec. 103) Sets forth additional requirements for approval of State laws. (Sec. 105) Revises the definition of State unemployment funds. (Sec. 106) Defines a State Employment Security Administration Account (State ESAA) as a special account within the Unemployment Trust Fund (the Fund) to provide administrative funds to pay the cost of services perfo… | 2026-03-23T12:47:58Z | |
| 105-s-1858 | 105 | s | 1858 | Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1998 | Labor and Employment | 1998-03-25 | 1998-07-29 | Subcommittee on Social Security and Family Policy. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 105-978. | Senate | Sen. Jeffords, James M. [R-VT] | VT | R | J000072 | 10 | TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Establishment of Options Program Title II: Expanded Availability of Health Care Services Title III: Demonstration Projects and Outreach Title IV: Miscellaneous Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1998 - Title I: Establishment of Options Program - Amends title XI of the Social Security Act (SSA) to add a new part D (OPTIONS Program for Working Individuals with Disabilities). Directs the Commissioner of Social Security to establish the OPTIONS program under which an eligible working individual with a disability and an SSDI (Social Security Disability Insurance) Options program participant shall receive, without being subjected to a waiting period, work incentive services under SSA title XIX (Medicaid) to the extent the State in which the individual or participant resides makes such services available in accordance with title II of this Act, as well as work counseling and assistance. (Sec. 101) Requires an SSDI OPTIONS program participant to be provided, after having been entitled to receive cash benefits under the Disability Insurance Benefits (DIB) program under SSA title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) for at least 24 months (or having participated in the OPTIONS program for at least such period), with the opportunity to purchase Medicare hospital insurance benefits and supplementary medical insurance benefits for as long as the individual participates in the OPTIONS program. Requires such SSDI OPTIONS program participant to choose: (1) to waive DIB cash benefits and acquire average monthly earnings from substantial gainful activity in excess of the amount designated to represent such activity by the Commissioner; or (2) if at the time the individual first elects to participate in the OPTIONS program, he or she has received DIB cash benefits for at least 24 months, to not waive such benefits, and to continue to be subject to the limitation imposed by the Commission for other disability beneficiaries under DIB with respect to average m… | 2025-08-21T16:11:47Z | |
| 105-hr-3531 | 105 | hr | 3531 | New Mothers' Breastfeeding Promotion and Protection Act of 1998 | Labor and Employment | 1998-03-24 | 1998-04-17 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Youth and Families. | House | Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14] | NY | D | M000087 | 41 | New Mothers' Breastfeeding Promotion and Protection Act of 1998 - Amends the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to include breastfeeding or expression of milk from the breast to feed a child among those activities for which a woman may not be discriminated against in employment. (Sec. 4) Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for 50 percent of employer expenses for providing an appropriate environment on business premises for employed mothers to breastfeed or express milk for their children. (Sec. 5) Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to put into effect a performance standard for breast pumps irrespective of the class to which the device has been classified under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, identifying those pumps appropriate for use on a regular basis in a place of employment based on the efficiency and effectiveness of the pump and on sanitation factors related to communal use. Requires the Secretary, acting through the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, to issue a compliance policy guide which will assure that women who want to breastfeed a child are given full and complete information about breast pumps. (Sec. 6) Amends the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA), and Federal civil service law, to require family and medical leave for nursing mothers' breaks, if the lactating mothers are entitled to specified leave as private or public employees under such law. Directs the Secretary of Labor to promulgate regulations to implement such FMLA requirement. (Sec. 7) Directs the Secretary of HHS, acting through the Maternal and Child Health Bureau of the Health Resources and Services Administration and in cooperation with the Secretary of Agriculture and other appropriate Federal agency heads, to undertake a campaign aimed at health professionals and the general public to promote the benefits of breastfeeding for infants, mothers, and families, especially public and private health professionals providing health services under Federal programs (including those for Federal … | 2026-03-23T12:41:21Z | |
| 105-s-1855 | 105 | s | 1855 | Workplace Information Readability and Electronic Dissemination Act | Labor and Employment | 1998-03-24 | 1998-03-24 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. | Senate | Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR] | OR | D | W000779 | 6 | Workplace Information Readability and Electronic Dissemination Act - Amends the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 to direct the Secretary of Labor to revise certain regulations to: (1) provide that an employer complies with a specified standard if the employer makes information on each hazardous chemical used in the workplace readily accessible (available for retrieval within 24 hours, or immediately in the case of an emergency) to employees through electronic access or other alternatives to paper copies of Material Standard Data Sheets (MSDSs); and (2) require a standard format for MSDSs. | 2025-08-21T16:11:39Z | |
| 105-hr-3510 | 105 | hr | 3510 | Fair Minimum Wage Act of 1998 | Labor and Employment | 1998-03-19 | 1998-04-17 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections. | House | Rep. Bonior, David E. [D-MI-10] | MI | D | B000619 | 124 | Fair Minimum Wage Act of 1998 - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to increase the Federal minimum wage (currently $5.15 per hour) to: (1) $5.65 an hour during the year 1999; and (2) $6.15 an hour during the year 2000. | 2026-03-23T12:47:58Z | |
| 105-hr-3519 | 105 | hr | 3519 | To require the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to recognize that electronic forms of providing MSDSs provide the same level of access to information as paper copies. | Labor and Employment | 1998-03-19 | 1998-04-29 | Subcommittee Hearings Held. | House | Rep. Granger, Kay [R-TX-12] | TX | R | G000377 | 1 | Amends the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 to direct the Secretary of Labor to revise certain regulations to: (1) provide that an employer complies with a specified standard if the employer makes information on each hazardous chemical used in the workplace readily accessible (available for retrieval within 24 hours, or immediately in the case of an emergency) to employees through electronic access or other alternatives to paper copies of Material Standard Data Sheets (MSDSs); and (2) require a standard format for MSDSs. | 2026-03-23T12:47:58Z | |
| 105-s-1805 | 105 | s | 1805 | Fair Minimum Wage Act of 1998 | Labor and Employment | 1998-03-19 | 1998-09-03 | Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9922-9923) | Senate | Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA] | MA | D | K000105 | 22 | Fair Minimum Wage Act of 1998 - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to increase the Federal minimum wage (currently $5.15 per hour) to: (1) $5.65 an hour during the year 1999; and (2) $6.15 an hour during the year 2000. | 2025-08-21T16:13:40Z | |
| 105-hr-3473 | 105 | hr | 3473 | To amend the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 to allow institutions of higher education to offer faculty members who are serving under a contract or arrangement providing for unlimited tenure, benefits on voluntary retirement that are reduced or eliminated on the basis of age, and for other purposes. | Labor and Employment | 1998-03-17 | 1998-03-17 | Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. | House | Rep. Fawell, Harris W. [R-IL-13] | IL | R | F000049 | 5 | Amends the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 to declare that the retirement plan of an institution of higher education shall not violate certain age discrimination prohibitions solely because it offers employees with unlimited tenure additional benefits upon voluntary retirement that are reduced or eliminated on the basis of age, if specified conditions are met. | 2025-07-21T19:44:15Z | |
| 105-hr-3481 | 105 | hr | 3481 | To require the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to recognize that electronic forms of providing MSDSs provide the same level of access to information as paper copies. | Labor and Employment | 1998-03-17 | 1998-04-17 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections. | House | Rep. Roemer, Tim [D-IN-3] | IN | D | R000385 | 0 | Amends the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 to direct the Secretary of Labor to revise certain regulations to: (1) provide that an employer complies with a specified standard if the employer makes information on each hazardous chemical used in the workplace readily accessible (available for retrieval within 24 hours, or immediately in the case of an emergency) to employees through electronic access or other alternatives to paper copies of Material Standard Data Sheets (MSDSs); and (2) require a standard format for MSDSs. | 2026-03-23T12:47:58Z | |
| 105-hr-3450 | 105 | hr | 3450 | Retirement Protection Act of 1998 | Labor and Employment | 1998-03-12 | 1998-03-27 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations. | House | Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1] | NJ | D | A000210 | 0 | TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Public Employee Pension Plans Title II: Women's Pension Equity Title III: Employer Reversions Title IV: Alternative Dispute Resolution Title V: Allowable Relief Title VI: Annual Reports Retirement Protection Act of 1998 - Title I: Public Employee Pension Plans - Sets forth annual reporting and disclosure requirements for public employee pension plans. (Sec. 102) Permits a participant or beneficiary under a public employee pension plan to bring a civil action against the plan to: (1) recover benefits due under the plan's terms, to enforce his or her rights, or to clarify rights to future benefits; (2) enjoin any act or practice which violates the plan's terms; or (3) obtain other appropriate equitable relief to enforce such terms or redress violations of them. Allows a plaintiff, in most instances, to prevail in such an action by proving the case by a preponderance of the evidence. Requires proof by clear and convincing evidence, however, if the action involves a plan under which changes in employer contributions are subject to review by a qualified review board. (Sec. 103) Prescribes the general requirements for a qualified review board to review changes in employer contributions to a public employee pension plan. (Sec. 104) Provides that this Act applies to any public employee pension plan, with specified exceptions. Title II: Women's Pension Equity - Amends the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to provide for the development of a model: (1) spousal consent form for electing to waive a qualified joint and survivor annuity or a qualified preretirement survivor annuity; and (2) qualified domestic relations order. (Sec. 202) Amends the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974 to extend beyond the pensioner's death the payment of any portion of Tier II Railroad Retirement benefits to surviving former spouses pursuant to divorce, annulment, separation, or property settlement agreements, unless payment… | 2026-03-23T12:41:21Z | |
| 105-hr-3433 | 105 | hr | 3433 | Ticket to Work and Self-Sufficiency Act of 1998 | Labor and Employment | 1998-03-11 | 1998-06-09 | Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 403. | House | Rep. Bunning, Jim [R-KY-4] | KY | R | B001066 | 26 | Ticket to Work and Self-Sufficiency Act of 1998 - Amends part A of title XI of the Social Security Act (SSA) to direct the Commissioner of Social Security to establish a Ticket to Work and Self-Sufficiency Program (TWSSP) under which an SSA title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) (SSI) or an SSA title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) program disabled beneficiary may use a ticket to work and self-sufficiency issued by the Commissioner to obtain employment services, vocational rehabilitation services, or other support services from an employment network of the beneficiary's choice which is willing to provide such services pursuant to an appropriate individual work plan. (Sec. 2) Authorizes certain State agencies to elect to participate in the program as employment networks coordinating and delivering services to individuals with tickets to work and self-sufficiency. Permits private entities to be employment networks. Requires a written agreement stipulating how an employment network will reimburse a State agency before it or an approved State plan may accept any referral of a disabled beneficiary from the employment network to which the beneficiary has assigned his or her ticket to work and self-sufficiency. Requires the Commissioner to enter into agreements with private or public organizations to serve as program managers which shall: (1) recruit and recommend employment networks for the Commissioner's selection; as well as (2) ensure that employment services, vocational rehabilitation services, and other support services are provided to beneficiaries throughout the geographic area covered under the program manager's agreement, including rural areas. Requires an employment network to: (1) develop and implement an individual work plan for each beneficiary in a manner affording the beneficiary an opportunity to exercise informed choice in selecting an employment goal and specific services needed to achieve it; and (2) undertake a vocational evaluation with respect to the beneficiary, unles… | 2025-04-07T15:33:13Z | |
| 105-hr-3397 | 105 | hr | 3397 | Corporate Good Citizenship Contract Act of 1998 | Labor and Employment | 1998-03-05 | 1998-03-16 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations. | House | Rep. Obey, David R. [D-WI-7] | WI | D | O000007 | 0 | Corporate Good Citizenship Contract Act of 1998 - Requires certain employers subject to the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act which intend to shut down an employment site permanently, and give (or are required to give) notice of a plant closing, to negotiate in good faith regarding possible means of using the plant and equipment for continued employment in the area of the plant's location. Requires such an employer to negotiate with: (1) any employees' union (or their representative committee if there is no union); and (2) a committee of public officials, plant employee representatives, and community residents designated by the local government (or, if no such committee is designated, the chief elected officer of such government). Requires the employer, if so requested by the union (or other employee representative) or the designated local committee (or chief elected local officer), to engage in good faith negotiations to sell all or part of the building and equipment of the plant to be closed to a buyer able and willing to use it to provide employment either at the plant site or at another location within the affected county or metropolitan statistical area. Permits any employee of an employer to complain to the Secretary of Labor that the employer is not negotiating in good faith as required by this Act. Prohibits any employer determined not to be negotiating in good faith, and any affiliate of the employer, from taking a Federal tax deduction for depreciation or amortization for any plant and equipment placed in service during the ten-year period after the notice is required to be made. | 2026-03-23T12:41:21Z | |
| 105-sconres-80 | 105 | sconres | 80 | A concurrent resolution urging that the railroad industry, including rail labor, management and retiree organization, open discussions for adequately funding an amendment to the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974 to modify the guaranteed minimum benefit for widows and widowers whose annuities are converted from a spouse to a widow or widower annuity. | Labor and Employment | 1998-03-05 | 1998-03-05 | Referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. | Senate | Sen. Moseley-Braun, Carol [D-IL] | IL | D | M001025 | 4 | Expresses the sense of the Congress that it recognizes: (1) the concern of the railroad industry that the widow's and widower's annuity under the current system is inadequate; and (2) that a process of dialogue must take place among all parties of the railroad community, including rail labor, management, and retiree organizations, before railroad annuity legislation can be enacted. Urges all parties to find a way to fund an amendment that would improve the survivor benefits component to the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974. | 2025-04-21T12:24:17Z | |
| 105-hr-3317 | 105 | hr | 3317 | Voluntary State Pilot Mediation Program for MSWPA Lawsuits Act of 1998 | Labor and Employment | 1998-03-04 | 1998-03-16 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections. | House | Rep. Smith, Robert [R-OR-2] | OR | R | S000607 | 0 | Voluntary State Pilot Mediation Program for MSWPA Lawsuits Act of 1998 - Authorizes States to establish a pilot program for mediation of private rights of action under the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act. | 2026-03-23T12:47:58Z | |
| 105-s-1709 | 105 | s | 1709 | Job Preparation and Retention Training Act of 1998 | Labor and Employment | 1998-03-04 | 1998-03-04 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. | Senate | Sen. Specter, Arlen [R-PA] | PA | R | S000709 | 0 | Job Preparation and Retention Training Act of 1998 - Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to make grants to States to assist community-based organizations in implementing enhanced pre-vocational training programs for eligible individuals. Makes individuals eligible for such training programs if they are: (1) welfare recipients who are enrolled in welfare transition programs, or who are eligible to be so enrolled but have not participated in such programs; or (2) Federal, State, or local prisoners who will be released within a reasonable period. Limits the duration of an individual's pre-vocational training to between two weeks and three months. Limits the maximum monetary value of such services provided to any eligible individual. Sets forth program requirements relating to State plans, grant award considerations, assistance to and use of funds by community organizations, and monitoring. Authorizes appropriations. | 2025-08-21T16:13:16Z | |
| 105-s-1684 | 105 | s | 1684 | Fair Access to Indemnity and Reimbursement Act | Labor and Employment | 1998-02-26 | 1998-02-26 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. | Senate | Sen. Hutchinson, Tim [R-AR] | AR | R | H001015 | 2 | Fair Access to Indemnity and Reimbursement Act - Amends the National Labor Relations Act to allow the recovery of attorney's fees and costs by certain employers and labor organizations who are prevailing parties in proceedings brought against them by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Requires that such employers or labor organizations have not more than 100 employees and a net worth of not more than $1.4 million at the time of such proceedings. Provides for such recovery without regard to whether the position of the NLRB or a court was substantially justified or special circumstances make an award unjust. | 2025-08-21T16:11:58Z | |
| 105-s-1685 | 105 | s | 1685 | Justice on Time Act of 1998 | Labor and Employment | 1998-02-26 | 1998-02-26 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. | Senate | Sen. Hutchinson, Tim [R-AR] | AR | R | H001015 | 0 | Justice on Time Act of 1998 - Amends the National Labor Relations Act to require the National Labor Relations Board to resolve unfair labor practice complaints within 365 days after filing. | 2025-08-21T16:13:37Z | |
| 105-s-1686 | 105 | s | 1686 | Fair Hearing Act | Labor and Employment | 1998-02-26 | 1998-02-26 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. | Senate | Sen. Hutchinson, Tim [R-AR] | AR | R | H001015 | 3 | Fair Hearing Act - Amends the National Labor Relations Act to direct the National Labor Relations Board to provide for a hearing to determine the unit's appropriateness, if a petition for an election requests the Board to certify a bargaining unit which includes the employees employed at one or more facilities of a multi-facility employer, and there is an absence of agreement by the parties (in the form of a stipulation for certification upon consent election or agreement for consent election). Specifies factors for the Board to consider in making such determination. | 2025-08-21T16:12:07Z | |
| 105-hr-3270 | 105 | hr | 3270 | Regional Skills Training Alliances Act of 1998 | Labor and Employment | 1998-02-25 | 1998-03-16 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education, Training and Life-Long Learning. | House | Rep. Moran, James P. [D-VA-8] | VA | D | M000933 | 14 | Regional Skills Training Alliances Act of 1998 - Directs the Secretary of Commerce to make grants to improve the job skills necessary for employment in specific industries. Requires the Secretary to do so acting through the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Makes eligible for such grants regional consortia that: (1) must have representatives from not less than ten businesses (or a nonprofit organization that represents at least ten businesses); and (2) may have representatives from labor organizations, State and local governments, educational institutions, and nonprofit organizations that represent businesses. Gives priority for such grants to eligible entities that consist of a majority of representatives from small businesses. Sets requirements relating to maximum amount of grants, applications, use of program funds, and matching funds. Authorizes appropriations. | 2025-08-21T16:11:55Z | |
| 105-hr-3271 | 105 | hr | 3271 | To amend the Job Training Partnership Act to establish regional private industry councils for labor market areas that are located in more than one State, and for other purposes. | Labor and Employment | 1998-02-25 | 1998-03-16 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education, Training and Life-Long Learning. | House | Rep. Moran, James P. [D-VA-8] | VA | D | M000933 | 2 | Amends the Job Training Partnership Act to direct the Secretary of Labor to establish regional private industry councils for labor market areas located in more than one State, upon request of the Governors of such States. Provides that such a regional private industry council shall be in addition to the private industry council established for each service delivery area in which the labor market area is located. Sets forth requirements for such regional private industry councils' membership, certification, functions, funding, and job training plans. | 2025-07-21T19:44:15Z | |
| 105-hr-3272 | 105 | hr | 3272 | To amend the Job Training Partnership Act to allow certain funds under that Act to be used for payment of incentive bonuses to certain job training providers that place large percentages of individuals in occupations for which a high demand exists. | Labor and Employment | 1998-02-25 | 1998-03-16 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education, Training and Life-Long Learning. | House | Rep. Moran, James P. [D-VA-8] | VA | D | M000933 | 0 | Amends the Job Training Partnership Act to allow the use of a specified portion of direct training services funds to pay incentive bonuses to certain job training providers that place large percentages of individuals in occupations for which a high demand exists. | 2025-07-21T19:44:15Z | |
| 105-hr-3246 | 105 | hr | 3246 | Fairness for Small Business and Employees Act of 1998 | Labor and Employment | 1998-02-24 | 1998-03-30 | Received in the Senate. | House | Rep. Goodling, William F. [R-PA-19] | PA | R | G000291 | 29 | TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Truth in Employment Title II: Fair Hearing Title III: Justice on Time Title IV: Attorneys Fees Fairness for Small Business and Employees Act of 1998 - Title I: Truth in Employment - Amends the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) to provide that nothing in specified prohibitions against unfair labor practices by employers shall be construed as requiring an employer to employ any person who is not a bona fide employee applicant, in that such person seeks or has sought employment with the employer with the primary purpose of furthering another employment or agency status. (Sec. 103) Declares that this title shall not affect the rights and responsibilities under NLRA of any employee who is or was a bona fide employee applicant, including the right to: (1) self-organization; (2) form, join, or assist labor organizations; (3) bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing; and (4) engage in other concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection. Title II: Fair Hearing - Directs the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to provide for a hearing upon due notice to determine the appropriateness of the bargaining unit, if a petition for an election requests to certify a unit which includes the employees employed at one or more facilities of a multi-facility employer, and in the absence of an agreement by the parties regarding the appropriateness of the bargaining unit at issue. Requires the NLRB, in making such determination, to consider functional integration, centralized control, common skills, functions and working conditions, permanent and temporary employee interchange, geographical separation, local autonomy, the number of employees, bargaining history, and other factors it considers appropriate. Title III: Justice on Time - Requires the NLRB to state its findings of fact and to issue and serve corrective orders, including reinstatement of an employee with or without backpay, or issue an order di… | 2026-03-23T12:41:21Z | |
| 105-hr-3169 | 105 | hr | 3169 | To amend the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 to include State and local law enforcement agencies under the protection of such Act. | Labor and Employment | 1998-02-05 | 1998-02-27 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections. | House | Rep. Kennedy, Patrick J. [D-RI-1] | RI | D | K000113 | 1 | Amends the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (OSHA) to include State and local law enforcement agencies among those entities covered by OSHA requirements. | 2026-03-23T12:47:58Z | |
| 105-hr-3152 | 105 | hr | 3152 | Amy Somers Volunteers at Food Banks Act | Labor and Employment | 1998-02-04 | 1998-08-07 | Became Public Law No: 105-221. | House | Rep. Campbell, Tom [R-CA-15] | CA | R | C000100 | 26 | Amy Somers Volunteers at Food Banks Act - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA) to provide that individuals who volunteer their services solely for humanitarian purposes to private nonprofit food banks, and who receive groceries from the food banks, are not considered employees for FLSA purposes. | 2026-03-23T12:47:58Z | |
| 105-s-1600 | 105 | s | 1600 | A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to waive in the case of multiemployer plans the section 415 limit on benefits to the participant's average compensation for his high 3 years. | Labor and Employment | 1998-02-03 | 1998-02-03 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. | Senate | Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA] | CA | D | B000711 | 3 | Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt multiemployer pension plans from provisions which limit pension benefits to a participant's average compensation for the participant's three highest consecutive years of compensation. | 2025-01-14T18:59:41Z | |
| 105-s-1579 | 105 | s | 1579 | Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1998 | Labor and Employment | 1998-01-28 | 1998-03-02 | Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 318. | Senate | Sen. DeWine, Mike [R-OH] | OH | R | D000294 | 11 | Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1998 - Revises and extends the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (RA). (Sec. 2) Provides for establishment of: (1) linkages between State vocational rehabilitation programs and workforce investment activities carried out under the Workforce Investment Partnership Act of 1998 (WIPA); and (2) special responsibilities for the Secretary of Education for coordination of all activities with respect to individuals with disabilities within and across programs administered by the Federal Government. (Sec. 3) Requires the Commissioner of the Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA, which is in the Office of the Secretary of Education) and the Director of the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research to reserve specified funds to carry out certain activities for outreach to minorities. (Sec. 4) Extends through FY 2004 the authorization of appropriations for Basic Vocational Rehabilitation Services programs. Revises requirements for State Vocational Rehabilitation Services plans, individual eligibility, individualized rehabilitation employment plans, vocational rehabilitation services scope, group services, non-Federal shares for establishment of programs, State Rehabilitation Councils, evaluation standards and performance indicators, and monitoring and review. Maintains formulas for State allotments for Basic Vocational Rehabilitation Services, but eliminates provisions for certain additional allotments and payments to States. Revises reallotment provisions. Revises the formula for reservation of funds for American Indian Vocational Rehabilitation Services. Revises requirements for title I payments to States. Requires a State Governor (or other appropriate officer of the State) to redesignate the agency conducting the client assistance program under certain conditions. Extends through FY 2004 the authorization of appropriations for such program. Eliminates RA title I (current part C) provisions for Innovation and Expansion Grants. Increases to 60 months the maximum effec… | 2025-04-21T12:24:17Z | |
| 105-hr-3100 | 105 | hr | 3100 | American Family Fair Minimum Wage Act of 1998 | Labor and Employment | 1998-01-27 | 1998-02-13 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections. | House | Rep. Bonior, David E. [D-MI-10] | MI | D | B000619 | 107 | American Family Fair Minimum Wage Act of 1998 - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to increase the Federal minimum wage per hour, beginning on September 1 of the years specified, to: (1) $5.65 in 1998; (2) $6.15 in 1999; (3) $6.65 in 2000; and (4) in 2001 and subsequent fiscal years, $6.65 adjusted to reflect increases in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers. | 2026-03-23T12:47:58Z | |
| 105-s-1573 | 105 | s | 1573 | Fair Minimum Wage Act of 1998 | Labor and Employment | 1998-01-27 | 1998-01-27 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. | Senate | Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA] | MA | D | K000105 | 9 | Fair Minimum Wage Act of 1998 - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to increase the Federal minimum wage per hour, beginning on September 1 of the years specified, to: (1) $5.65 in 1998; (2) $6.15 in 1999; (3) $6.65 in 2000; and (4) in 2001 and subsequent fiscal years, $6.65 adjusted to reflect increases in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers. | 2025-08-21T16:11:16Z | |
| 105-hr-2994 | 105 | hr | 2994 | Technology Education Capital Investment Act of 1997 | Labor and Employment | 1997-11-09 | 1997-12-10 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Youth and Families. | House | Rep. Hooley, Darlene [D-OR-5] | OR | D | H000762 | 19 | Technology Education Capital Investment Act of 1997 - Authorizes appropriations to the Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) to conduct informal science and mathematics education programs. Requires the NSF to expand such programs. Sets forth priorities for such programs serving students at pre-kindergarten through secondary education levels. (Sec. 3) Authorizes appropriations to the NSF Director to carry out the national advanced scientific and technical education program under the Scientific and Advanced-Technology Act of 1992. (Sec. 4) Establishes a technology education State stimulus scholarship program. Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make matching grants to States to provide supplementary scholarships to students for study leading to a postsecondary degree in science, mathematics, engineering, or a related field. Allows such scholarships to be awarded by the State higher education system, the State scholarship commission, or an equivalent State entity. Sets forth eligibility requirements. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 5) Establishes a hands-on student training partnership grants program. Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to make start-up grants to institutions of higher learning to develop industry-sponsored internship programs that provide opportunities for undergraduate engineering students to receive hands-on training at local businesses. Sets forth program priorities and restrictions. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 6) Amends the Internal Revenue Code provisions relating to educational assistance programs to provide for: (1) permanent extension of the tax exclusion for employer-provided educational assistance; and (2) restoration of the tax exclusion for graduate level assistance. (Sec. 7) Establishes the Technology Workforce Commission to study and report to the President and the Congress on all matters relating to the shortage of technology workers in the United States. Authorizes appropriations. | 2025-08-21T16:14:28Z | |
| 105-hr-2997 | 105 | hr | 2997 | Fairness in the Workplace Commission Act | Labor and Employment | 1997-11-09 | 1997-12-10 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations. | House | Rep. Kennedy, Joseph P., II [D-MA-8] | MA | D | K000110 | 41 | Fairness in the Workplace Commission Act - Establishes the National Commission on Fairness in the Workplace, which shall examine and report to the Congress on: (1) the growing corporate practice of providing wages and benefit levels for part-time and temporary employees which are lower than the wage and benefit levels provided to full-time employees who perform essentially identical work; (2) how the use of part-time and temporary employees has affected wage and benefit levels, employee job insecurity, and employee productivity; (3) the reasons that workers' wages have not kept pace with corporate profits and economic growth; (4) the reasons for the widening median wage gap between working men and working women; and (5) the reasons for the consistent discrepancy in the average wage of minority populations in comparison to the average wage of white Americans. Requires the Commission to develop policy options for the Congress to address the problems identified in the examination. | 2026-03-23T12:41:21Z | |
| 105-hr-3007 | 105 | hr | 3007 | Commission on the Advancement of Women and Minorities in Science, Engineering, and Technology Development Act | Labor and Employment | 1997-11-09 | 1998-10-14 | Became Public Law No: 105-255. | House | Rep. Morella, Constance A. [R-MD-8] | MD | R | M000941 | 16 | Commission on the Advancement of Women and Minorities in Science, Engineering, and Technology Development Act - Establishes the Commission on the Advancement of Women and Minorities in Science, Engineering, and Technology Development. Directs the Commission to review available research and conduct additional necessary research to: (1) identify the number of women, minorities, and individuals with disabilities in the United States in specific types of occupations in science, engineering, and technology development; (2) examine the preparedness of such persons to pursue careers in such fields and to advance to positions of greater responsibility within academia, industry, and government; (3) describe the practices and policies of employers and labor unions relating to the recruitment, retention, and advancement of such persons in such fields; (4) identify the opportunities for, and artificial barriers to, the recruitment, retention, and advancement of such persons in such fields; (5) compile a synthesis of available research on lawful practices, policies, and programs that have successfully led to the recruitment, retention, and advancement of such persons in such fields and issue recommendations with respect to lawful policies that Government (including the Congress and appropriate Federal agencies), academia, and private industry can follow; (6) identify the disincentives for such persons to continue graduate education in such fields and the disincentives that lead to a disproportionate number of such persons leaving such fields; (7) identify university undergraduate programs that are successful in retaining such persons in such fields; (8) assess the extent to which the recommendations of the Task Force on Women, Minorities, and the Handicapped in Science and Technology have been implemented; (9) compile a list of all federally funded reports on the subjects of encouraging such persons to enter the fields of science and engineering and retaining such persons in the science and engineering workforce that have be… | 2026-03-23T12:41:21Z | |
| 105-s-1501 | 105 | s | 1501 | Workers' Pension Protection Act | Labor and Employment | 1997-11-09 | 1997-11-09 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. | Senate | Sen. Jeffords, James M. [R-VT] | VT | R | J000072 | 0 | TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Minimum Guaranteed Benefits Title II: Treatment of Asset Deficient Multiemployer Pension Plans Title III: Actuarial Assumptions Title IV: Administration and Enforcement Title V: Increase in Multiemployer Plan Insurance Premiums Workers' Pension Protection Act - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to revise protections for workers in multiemployer pension plans. Title I: Minimum Guaranteed Benefits - Revises a formula and increases the amount of multiemployer plan benefits guaranteed by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. Title II: Treatment of Asset Deficient Multiemployer Pension Plans - Prohibits multiemployer pension plan trustees from increasing benefits if the plan is an asset deficient plan with a funded current liability percentage of 95 percent or less. Allows a plan that is not asset deficient to choose to increase benefits if the benefit increase would not reduce the funding levels to below 90 percent. Requires multiemployer plans to use specified interest rate assumptions and mortality tables. Modifies a rule which prohibits decrease of accrued benefits to make an exception for plan amendments which reduce an increase resulting from an increase in benefits prohibited under this title. Requires multiemployer plan administrators to notify plan participants, beneficiaries, and contributing employers of the plan's funding status and the limits of the guarantee by the PBGC if the plan becomes insolvent. Title III: Actuarial Assumptions - Requires multiemployer plans, for purposes of determining withdrawal liability, to adopt the interest rate and mortality tables for determining current liability which are specified under title I of this Act. Title IV: Administration and Enforcement - Grants employers that contribute to multiemployer plans the right to seek an injunction against a plan to prevent an impermissible benefit increase or any other violations of specified provisions, or obtain other appropriate re… | 2025-08-21T16:11:54Z | |
| 105-hr-2948 | 105 | hr | 2948 | Workplace Religious Freedom Act of 1997 | Labor and Employment | 1997-11-08 | 1998-01-27 | Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E4) | House | Rep. Goodling, William F. [R-PA-19] | PA | R | G000291 | 6 | Workplace Religious Freedom Act of 1997 - Amends the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to modify the definition of "religion" to include all aspects of religious observance, practice, and belief unless, after initiating and engaging in an affirmative and bona fide effort, an employer demonstrates that it is unable to reasonably accommodate a religious observance or practice without undue hardship (action requiring significant difficulty or expense) on the conduct of the employer's business. Prohibits deeming an accommodation by the employer reasonable if the accommodation does not remove the conflict between employment requirements and the religious observance or practice. Excludes, in certain circumstances, a defense that the accommodation would be in violation of a seniority system. Prohibits requiring payment of premium wages for work performed during hours to which premium wages would ordinarily be applicable if work is performed during those hours only to accommodate religious requirements of an employee. | 2026-03-23T12:41:21Z | |
| 105-hr-2960 | 105 | hr | 2960 | Responsibility in Managed Care Act of 1997 | Labor and Employment | 1997-11-08 | 1997-12-10 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations. | House | Rep. Norwood, Charles W. [R-GA-10] | GA | R | N000159 | 16 | Responsibility in Managed Care Act of 1997 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to exempt from ERISA preemption of State law certain causes of action for damages for personal or financial injury or wrongful death resulting from failures to provide health care benefits under employee welfare benefit plans providing such benefits. | 2026-03-23T12:41:21Z | |
| 105-hr-2864 | 105 | hr | 2864 | Occupational Safety and Health Administration Compliance Assistance Authorization Act of 1998 | Labor and Employment | 1997-11-07 | 1998-07-16 | Became Public Law No: 105-197. | House | Rep. Ballenger, Cass [R-NC-10] | NC | R | B000104 | 22 | Occupational Safety and Health Administration Compliance Assistance Authorization Act of 1998 - Amends the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (OSHA) to direct the Secretary of Labor to establish a compliance assistance program of cooperative agreements with the States, under which employers may consult with State officials about compliance with occupational safety and health requirements as well as voluntary efforts employers may undertake. Requires States, under such agreements, to: (1) provide on-site consultation upon employer request; and (2) ensure that such on-site consultations provide for employee participation. Authorizes States to provide other education and training programs for employers and employees. Requires such program activities to be conducted independently of enforcement activities. Directs the Secretary to establish rules under which employers may be exempted from certain inspections if they: (1) request and undergo on-site consultative visits and correct identified hazards; (2) agree to request subsequent visits if there are major changes in working conditions or processes which introduce new hazards; and (3) implement procedures for regularly identifying and preventing hazards, and maintain appropriate involvement of and training for managers and non-management employees in achieving safe and healthful working conditions. Requires States to provide such worksite consultations at the employer's request, giving scheduling priority to small businesses in high hazard industries or with the most hazardous conditions at issue. | 2026-03-23T12:47:58Z | |
| 105-hr-2869 | 105 | hr | 2869 | Self-Audit Promotion Act of 1998 | Labor and Employment | 1997-11-07 | 1998-09-18 | Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Education and the Workforce. H. Rept. 105-731. | House | Rep. Ballenger, Cass [R-NC-10] | NC | R | B000104 | 26 | Self-Audit Promotion Act of 1998 - Amends the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 to exempt safety and health assessments, audits, and reviews conducted by or for an employer from disclosure in enforcement actions under such Act, with specified exceptions. Authorizes requiring disclosure of such records, reports, or other information to the extent they are sought: (1) as part of a criminal proceeding; or (2) to establish the cause of, or an employer's actual knowledge of, a particular alleged violation, but only if certain conditions are met. | 2026-03-23T12:47:58Z | |
| 105-hr-2871 | 105 | hr | 2871 | To amend the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 to provide for the establishment of advisory panels for the Secretary of Labor. | Labor and Employment | 1997-11-07 | 1998-04-29 | Subcommittee Hearings Held. | House | Rep. Ballenger, Cass [R-NC-10] | NC | R | B000104 | 20 | Amends the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 to direct the Secretary of Labor, upon determination that a rule should be promulgated or modified in order to serve the objectives of such Act, to appoint an advisory panel to review the scientific and economic data which forms the basis for such standard and the relevance of the data to industries and workers which would be affected by the standard. Requires reports of the panel, including any individual and minority reports, to be published together with any proposed or final rule on the standard. Directs the Secretary to provide a written response to all significant comments of the panel and include such responses with the proposed or final rule to which the reports of the panel members are attached. Makes such requirements inapplicable when the rule is completed through negotiated rulemaking. | 2026-03-23T12:47:58Z | |
| 105-hr-2873 | 105 | hr | 2873 | To amend the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970. | Labor and Employment | 1997-11-07 | 1998-09-18 | Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Education and the Workforce. H. Rept. 105-732. | House | Rep. Ballenger, Cass [R-NC-10] | NC | R | B000104 | 23 | Amends the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (OSHA) to require certain notices in the Federal Register to include identification of the specific industry or industries to which the OSHA standard, to be promulgated under the OSHA rule, will apply. Directs the Secretary of Labor to ensure that the OSHA standard, as applicable to each such industry, is based upon: (1) an assessment of the risks to workers in such industry from the hazard which is the subject of the standard; (2) the range of estimates and the best estimate of the quantifiable and nonquantifiable benefits of the standard in each such industry; and (3) an analysis of the costs likely to occur in each such industry as a result of compliance with the standard. Authorizes the Secretary to determine such risks and benefits on information from similar industries, operations, or processes, to the extent that information is not available on the specific risks to workers in any such industry. | 2026-03-23T12:47:58Z | |
| 105-hr-2875 | 105 | hr | 2875 | To amend the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970. | Labor and Employment | 1997-11-07 | 1997-11-25 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections. | House | Rep. Ballenger, Cass [R-NC-10] | NC | R | B000104 | 20 | Amends the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 to revise requirements for issuance of citations to employers for violations of certain standards, rules, orders, or regulations. Allows an employer to provide methods of protection alternative to federally required methods if they are equally or more protective of the safety and health of the employees in the factual circumstances at issue than those required by such standard, rule, order, or regulation. Requires issuance of a citation for a violation if the employer has not complied with Federal rules and standards or has not provided such an alternative method of protection. | 2026-03-23T12:47:58Z | |
| 105-hr-2877 | 105 | hr | 2877 | To amend the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970. | Labor and Employment | 1997-11-07 | 1998-07-16 | Became Public Law No: 105-198. | House | Rep. Ballenger, Cass [R-NC-10] | NC | R | B000104 | 23 | Amends the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (OSHA) to prohibit the Secretary of Labor from using the results of enforcement activities, such as the number of citations issued or penalties assessed, to: (1) evaluate employees directly involved in OSHA enforcement activities; or (2) impose quotas or goals with regard to the results of such activities. | 2026-03-23T12:47:58Z | |
| 105-hr-2879 | 105 | hr | 2879 | To amend the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970. | Labor and Employment | 1997-11-07 | 1998-04-29 | Subcommittee Hearings Held. | House | Rep. Ballenger, Cass [R-NC-10] | NC | R | B000104 | 24 | Amends the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 to revise requirements for issuance of citations to employers for violations of certain standards, rules, orders, or regulations. Exempts from citation for such a violation any employer who: (1) has no employees exposed to the violation; and (2) has not created the condition that caused the violation or assumed responsibility for ensuring compliance by other employers on the work site. | 2026-03-23T12:47:58Z | |
| 105-hr-2881 | 105 | hr | 2881 | To amend the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970. | Labor and Employment | 1997-11-07 | 1997-11-25 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections. | House | Rep. Ballenger, Cass [R-NC-10] | NC | R | B000104 | 21 | Amends the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (OSHA) to direct the Secretary of Labor to waive penalties for certain OSHA violations by small business concern employers. Provides for waiver of up to 100 percent of the penalty otherwise proposed for such a violation if an employer corrects the violation within the time set for abatement. Provides, if the employer does not correct the violation within such time, for waiver of up to 100 percent of such penalty to the extent that such employer uses the amount which would have been paid as the penalty for correction of the violation. Makes such waivers applicable where: (1) the employer has made a good faith effort to comply with applicable regulations; and (2) the violation does not constitute a significant threat to an employee's health or safety. | 2026-03-23T12:47:58Z | |
| 105-hr-2888 | 105 | hr | 2888 | Sales Incentive Compensation Act | Labor and Employment | 1997-11-07 | 1998-06-16 | Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. | House | Rep. Fawell, Harris W. [R-IL-13] | IL | R | F000049 | 52 | Sales Incentive Compensation Act - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to exempt from minimum wage recordkeeping and overtime compensation requirements any employee in a sales position, if: (1) the employee has specialized or technical knowledge related to products or services being sold; (2) the employee's sales are predominantly to persons who are entities to whom the employee has made previous sales or the employee's position does not involve initiating sales contacts; (3) the employee's position requires a detailed understanding of customers' needs and discretion in offering a variety of products and services; (4) the employee receives a base compensation at a specified minimum rate and additional compensation based on sales attributable to the employee; (5) the employee's aggregate compensation based upon sales reaches a specified minimum level; and (6) the rate of annual compensation or base compensation for an employee who did not work for an employer for an entire calendar year is prorated to reflect annual compensation which would have been earned if the employee had been compensated at the same rate for the entire calendar year. Makes this Act inapplicable to individuals employed as route sales drivers. | 2026-03-23T12:47:58Z | |
| 105-hr-2891 | 105 | hr | 2891 | To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide a limited overtime exemption for employees performing emergency medical services. | Labor and Employment | 1997-11-07 | 1997-11-25 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections. | House | Rep. Graham, Lindsey [R-SC-3] | SC | R | G000359 | 3 | Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide a limited overtime exemption for employees performing emergency medical services and transport (including paramedics, emergency medical technicians, and rescue and ambulance service personnel). | 2026-03-23T12:47:58Z | |
| 105-s-1453 | 105 | s | 1453 | National Commission on Fairness in the Workplace Act | Labor and Employment | 1997-11-07 | 1997-11-07 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. | Senate | Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT] | CT | D | D000388 | 0 | National Commission on Fairness in the Workplace Act - Establishes the National Commission on Fairness in the Workplace, which shall conduct a comprehensive study of the impact of part-time employment in the United States, including: (1) a review of the trend toward creation of more part-time than full-time jobs; (2) an assessment of the relationship between part-time work and wage levels, benefits, earning potential, and productivity; and (3) a review of the practice of providing different wage and benefit levels to part-time and full-time workers. Authorizes appropriations. | 2025-08-21T16:13:53Z |
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