[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3485 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3485

To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide that over-the-
   road bus drivers are covered under the maximum hours requirements.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 25, 2019

     Ms. Speier (for herself, Ms. Brownley of California, and Ms. 
 Schakowsky) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Education and Labor

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide that over-the-
   road bus drivers are covered under the maximum hours requirements.

    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 ``Driver Fatigue Prevention Act''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENT TO THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT OF 1938.

    Section 13(b)(1) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 
213(b)(1)) is amended by inserting before the semicolon the following: 
``, except an employee employed as a driver of an over-the-road bus, 
which is a bus characterized by an elevated passenger deck located over 
a baggage compartment.''.
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