[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5742 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5742

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


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 27, 2023

Mr. Moolenaar introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide that tasks and 
 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 tasks and 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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