[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2217 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2217

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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 23, 2019

   Mr. Casey 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 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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