[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3303 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3303

   To amend the Port-to-Portal Act of 1947 to suspend the statute of 
limitations for certain rights of action under the Fair Labor Standards 
          Act during investigations by the Secretary of Labor.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 23, 2009

  Mr. George Miller of California (for himself, Ms. Woolsey, and Mr. 
    Hare) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
 Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committee on 
   the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
  Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
           within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Port-to-Portal Act of 1947 to suspend the statute of 
limitations for certain rights of action under the Fair Labor Standards 
          Act during investigations by the Secretary of Labor.

    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 ``Wage Theft Prevention Act''.

SEC. 2. TOLLING OF STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS.

    Section 6 of the Portal-to-Portal Act (29 U.S.C. 255) is amended--
            (1) by striking the period at the end inserting ``; and''; 
        and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(e) with respect to any eventual cause of action 
        described in this section, the running of the statutory periods 
        of limitation set forth in this section shall be tolled from 
        the date the Secretary of Labor provides notice to the employer 
        of any investigation related to such cause of action, until the 
        date the Secretary provides notice to the employer that such 
        investigation has concluded.''.
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