[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4190 Introduced in House (IH)]







109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4190

To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to prohibit agreements to 
            provide notice of investigations or inspections.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            November 1, 2005

  Ms. DeLauro (for herself, Mr. McGovern, Mr. Lewis of Georgia, Mrs. 
 McCarthy, Mr. Evans, Mr. Nadler, Mr. Brown of Ohio, Mr. George Miller 
of California, Ms. Solis, Mr. Owens, Ms. Matsui, Mr. Wexler, Mr. Allen, 
and Mr. Honda) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to prohibit agreements to 
            provide notice of investigations or inspections.

    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 ``Safe at Work Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON NOTICE OF INVESTIGATIONS OF CHILD LABOR 
              VIOLATIONS.

    Section 11 of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 211) 
is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(e) Notice of Investigations.--The Secretary shall not enter into 
any agreement to provide any person with notice prior to commencing an 
investigation or inspection pursuant to this Act.''.

SEC. 3. STUDY AND REPORT ON CHILD LABOR VIOLATIONS.

    The Comptroller General shall conduct a study of violations of 
child labor laws, including the number and type of allegations of child 
labor violations, when and whether inspections or investigations 
commenced for each such allegation, what enforcement action or other 
outcome resulted from such inspections or investigations, and a 
comparison of the extent to which such violations occurred in both 
large and small businesses during the 5-year period ending on the date 
of enactment of this Act. Not later than 1 year after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General shall transmit to 
Congress a report on the findings of such study.
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