[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 530 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 530

To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to permit State and local 
  government workers to perform volunteer services for their employer 
 without requiring the employer to pay overtime compensation, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

               March 10 (legislative day, March 6), 1995

   Mr. Gregg introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
         referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to permit State and local 
  government workers to perform volunteer services for their employer 
 without requiring the employer to pay overtime compensation, 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 ``State and Local Volunteer 
Preservation Act''.

SEC. 2. WAIVER OF OVERTIME COMPENSATION.

    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 which is a State, political 
        subdivision of a State, or an interstate governmental 
        organization shall not be required to pay an employee overtime 
        compensation or provide compensatory time under this section 
        for any period during which the employee--
                    ``(A) volunteered to perform services for the 
                public agency; and
                    ``(B) signed a legally binding waiver of such 
                compensation or compensatory time.''.
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