[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3152 Referred in Senate (RFS)]

  2d Session
                                H. R. 3152


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 25, 1998

 Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human 
                               Resources

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                                 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.''.

            Passed the House of Representatives June 25, 1998.

            Attest:

                                                ROBIN H. CARLE,

                                                                 Clerk.