[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7749 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7749

To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide that services 
     performed by certain individuals in postsecondary vocational 
               institutions not be treated as employment.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 12, 2022

Mr. Moolenaar 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 services 
     performed by certain individuals in postsecondary vocational 
               institutions not be treated as employment.

    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 ``Training Assignments for Student 
Knowledge Act'' or the ``TASK Act''.

SEC. 2. TREATMENT OF VOCATIONAL STUDENTS.

    Section 3(e) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 
203(e)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
            ``(6) The term `employee' does not include any individual 
        who performs services required by a postsecondary vocational 
        institution (as defined in section 102(c) of the Higher 
        Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1002(c)) to obtain a 
        recognized postsecondary credential (as defined in section 3 of 
        the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 
        3102)).''.
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