[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1485 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1485

To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to protect the rights of 
              employees to receive overtime compensation.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                July 29 (legislative day, July 21), 2003

   Mr. Kennedy (for himself, Mr. Harkin, Mr. Schumer, Mr. Leahy, Mr. 
Dayton, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Reid, Mr. Dodd, Mr. Sarbanes, Ms. Stabenow, Ms. 
 Mikulski, and Mrs. Clinton) introduced the following bill; which was 
 read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, 
                              and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to protect the rights of 
              employees to receive overtime compensation.

    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 ``Overtime Compensation Protection Act 
of 2003''.

SEC. 2. PROTECTION OF OVERTIME COMPENSATION.

    Section 13 of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 is amended to 
read as follows:
    ``(k)(1) The Secretary shall not promulgate any regulation that has 
the effect of exempting from the requirements of section 7 any employee 
who is not otherwise exempted pursuant to regulations promulgated under 
this section that are in effect on the date of enactment of this 
subsection.
    ``(2) Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to prohibit the 
Secretary from reducing the number of employees who are exempt from the 
requirements of section 7 by regulations promulgated under this 
section.''.
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