[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1543 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1543

 To direct the Secretary of Labor to ensure that the database relating 
    to investigations under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 is 
              language accessible, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 10, 2023

 Ms. Garcia of Texas (for herself, Ms. Lee of California, Mr. Allred, 
  Ms. Schakowsky, Ms. Norton, Mr. Soto, Mr. Veasey, and Mr. Green of 
    Texas) 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 ensure that the database relating 
    to investigations under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 is 
              language accessible, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. LANGUAGE ACCESSIBLITY OF DATABASE OF INVESTIGATIONS UNDER 
              FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT.

    In maintaining the database containing information relating to 
investigations under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 
202 et seq.), as required pursuant to the amendments made by the OPEN 
Government Data Act, the Secretary of Labor shall ensure that the 
information in such database is publicly accessible in at least 8 of 
the most commonly spoken languages in the United States, as determined 
by the Bureau of the Census.
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