[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1225 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1225

 To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to exempt employees who 
   perform certain court reporting duties from the compensatory time 
   requirements applicable to certain public agencies, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 14, 1995

  Mr. Fawell (for himself, Mr. Barrett of Nebraska, Mr. Andrews, Mr. 
Hoekstra, and Mr. Christensen) introduced the following bill; which was 
  referred to the Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to exempt employees who 
   perform certain court reporting duties from the compensatory time 
   requirements applicable to certain public agencies, and for other 
                               purposes.

    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 ``The Court Reporter Fair Labor 
Amendments of 1995''.

SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON COMPENSATORY TIME FOR COURT REPORTERS.

    Section 7(o) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 
207(o)) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating paragraph (6) as paragraph (7); and
            (2) by inserting after paragraph (5) the following new 
        paragraph:
    ``(6) A public agency may not be considered to be in violation of 
subsection (a) with respect to an employee who performs court reporting 
transcript preparation duties if such public agency and such employee 
have an understanding that the time spent performing such duties 
outside of normal working hours or regular working days is not 
considered as hours worked for the purposes of subsection (a).''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE OF AMENDMENTS.

    The amendments made by section 2 shall take effect as if included 
in the provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to which such 
amendments relate, except that such amendments shall not apply to an 
action--
            (1) that was brought in a court involving the application 
        of section 7(a) of such Act to an employee who performed court 
        reporting transcript preparation duties; and
            (2) in which a final judgment has been entered on or before 
        the date of enactment of this Act.
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