[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2515 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2515

  To direct the Secretary of Labor to remove travel agencies from the 
    partial list of establishments having no retail concept for the 
 purposes of certain exemptions under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 
                                 1938.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 18, 2017

Mr. Francis Rooney of Florida introduced the following bill; which was 
        referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To direct the Secretary of Labor to remove travel agencies from the 
    partial list of establishments having no retail concept for the 
 purposes of certain exemptions under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 
                                 1938.

    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 ``Travel Agent Retail Fairness Act''.

SEC. 2. REMOVAL OF TRAVEL AGENCIES.

    (a) Change of Regulations.--Not later than 90 days after the date 
of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Labor shall revise the 
regulations set forth in section 779.317 of title 29, Code of Federal 
Regulations, to remove travel agencies from the partial list of 
establishments having no retail concept.
    (b) Interim Effect.--Until the Secretary completes the revisions 
required by subsection (a) and not withstanding section 779 of title 
29, Code of Federal Regulations, a travel agency shall not be 
considered an establishment having no retail concept for the purposes 
of certain exemptions under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.
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