[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3403 Introduced in House (IH)]







109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3403

  To amend the National Labor Relations Act to provide for inflation 
 adjustments to the mandatory jurisdiction thresholds of the National 
                         Labor Relations Board.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 22, 2005

 Mr. Istook (for himself, Mr. Paul, and Mr. Ryun of Kansas) introduced 
 the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education 
                           and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the National Labor Relations Act to provide for inflation 
 adjustments to the mandatory jurisdiction thresholds of the National 
                         Labor Relations Board.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. INFLATION ADJUSTMENTS TO MANDATORY JURISDICTION THRESHOLDS 
              OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD.

    Section 14(c) of the National Labor Relations Act (29 U.S.C. 
164(c)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``(1) The'' and inserting ``(1)(A) The'';
            (2) in paragraph (1), by striking ``Provided,'' and all 
        that follows and inserting ``Provided, That the Board shall not 
        decline to assert jurisdiction over any labor dispute involving 
        any class or category of employers over which it would assert 
        jurisdiction under the standards prevailing on August 1, 1959, 
        after adjusting the financial threshold amounts for inflation 
        pursuant to subparagraph (B).''; and
            (3) by adding at the end of such paragraph the following 
        new subparagraph:
    ``(B) Inflation Adjustments.--Not later than 180 days after the 
date of enactment of this Act, and not less often than every 3 years 
thereafter, the Board shall adjust for inflation each of the financial 
threshold amounts referred to in subparagraph (A) and such other 
financial threshold amounts in any other jurisdictional standard used 
by the Board, using as the base period the later of (i) the most recent 
calendar quarter ending before the financial threshold amount was 
established, or (ii) the calendar quarter ending June 30, 1959. The 
inflation adjustments shall be determined using changes in the Consumer 
Price Index for all urban consumers published by the Department of 
Labor and shall be rounded to the nearest $10,000. The Board shall 
prescribe any regulations necessary for making the inflation 
adjustments.''.
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