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        <text><![CDATA[ <p><b>Transitioning to Integrated and Meaningful Employment Act or the TIME Act</b></p> <p>This bill prohibits the Secretary of Labor, for a three-year period, from issuing any special wage certificate under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to certain entities, allowing them to pay individuals with disabilities subminimum wages, except as a renewal of a special wage certificate previously issued to the entity.</p> <p>Any such special wage certificate issued or renewed shall be void three years after enactment of this Act.</p> <p>Authority for such special wage certificates is repealed as of three years after enactment of this Act.</p>]]></text>
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