[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1461 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1461

 To amend the National Labor Relations Act to apply the protections of 
              the Act to teaching and research assistants.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 12, 2009

    Mr. George Miller of California (for himself, Mr. Tierney, Mr. 
Grijalva, Ms. Clarke, Mr. Hare, Mr. Davis of Illinois, Mr. Andrews, and 
 Ms. Woolsey) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Education and Labor

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the National Labor Relations Act to apply the protections of 
              the Act to teaching and research assistants.

    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 ``Teaching and Research Assistant 
Collective Bargaining Rights Act''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITION.

    Section 2(3) of the National Labor Relations Act (29 U.S.C. 152(3)) 
is amended--
            (1) by striking ``(3)'' and inserting ``(3)(A)''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(B) The term `employee' includes a student enrolled at an 
institution of higher education (as defined in section 101 or 102 of 
the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001, 1002), other than an 
institution of a State or political subdivision) who is performing work 
for remuneration at the direction of the institution, whether or not 
the work relates to the student's course of study.''.
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