[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3152 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        H.R.3152

                       One Hundred Fifth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

          Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday,
the twenty-seventh day of January, one thousand nine hundred and ninety-
                                  eight


                                 An Act


 
To provide that certain volunteers at private non-profit food banks are 
   not employees for purposes of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.

    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 ``Amy Somers Volunteers at Food Banks 
Act''.

SEC. 2. FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT OF 1938.

    Section 3(e) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 
203(e)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(5) The term `employee' does not include individuals who 
volunteer their services solely for humanitarian purposes to private 
non-profit food banks and who receive from the food banks groceries.''.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.