[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3966 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3966

     To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to clarify that 
individuals with impaired vision or blindness are not to be covered by 
  special certificates for employment under section 14(c) of such Act.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 7, 1994

Mr. Traficant introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Education and Labor

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                                 A BILL


 
     To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to clarify that 
individuals with impaired vision or blindness are not to be covered by 
  special certificates for employment under section 14(c) of such Act.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Blind Workers' Wage Equity Act''.

SEC. 2. IMPAIRED VISION OR BLINDNESS.

    Section 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 
214(c)) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating paragraphs (2), (3), (4), and (5) as 
        paragraphs (3), (4), (5), and (6), respectively, and
            (2) by adding after paragraph (1) the following:
    ``(2)(A) The Secretary shall not issue a certificate under 
paragraph (1) to authorize the payment of wages under a special 
certificate by reason of such individual's impaired vision or 
blindness.
    ``(B) For purposes of subparagraph (A), the term `impaired vision 
or blindness' means--
            ``(i) any limitation in visual acuity or visual field, 
        including blindness, or
            ``(ii) blindness as determined by visual acuity which is no 
        better than 20/200 in the better eye with correcting lenses or 
        visual acuity which, if better than 20/200, is accompanied by a 
        limit to the field of vision in the better eye to such a degree 
        that its widest diameter subtends an angle of no greater than 
        20 degrees.''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendments made by section 2 shall take effect 90 days after 
the date of the enactment of this Act.

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