[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3877 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3877

   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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 29, 2010

 Mr. Casey (for himself and Mr. Harkin) 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 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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