[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3715 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3715

  To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to prohibit employers 
from keeping employees' tips to cover the cost of financial transaction 
                                 fees.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 11, 2019

 Ms. Garcia of Texas 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 prohibit employers 
from keeping employees' tips to cover the cost of financial transaction 
                                 fees.

    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 ``Protecting Employees Tips Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON KEEPING TIPS TO COVER FINANCIAL TRANSACTION 
              FEES.

    Section 3(m)(2)(B) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 
U.S.C. 203(m)(2)(B)) is amended by inserting ``, or keeping any portion 
of employees' tips to cover the cost of any fee established, charged, 
or received by a payment card network for the purpose of compensating 
an issuer for its involvement in a transaction in which a person uses a 
debit card or credit card (as the terms `debit card', `credit card', 
`issuer', and `payment card network' are defined in section 921(c) of 
the Electronic Fund Transfer Act (15 U.S.C. 1693o-2(c)))'' after 
``employees' tips''.
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