[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7784 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7784

 To amend the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 to 
                    clarify reporting requirements.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 21, 2024

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

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 to 
                    clarify reporting 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 ``Start Applying Labor Transparency 
Act'' or ``SALT Act''.

SEC. 2. LABOR-MANAGEMENT REPORTING AND DISCLOSURE ACT OF 1959.

    (a) Filing and Contents of Report of Payments, Loans, Promises, 
Agreements, or Arrangements.--Section 201 of the Labor-Management 
Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 (29 U.S.C. 431) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsections (c) through (e) as 
        subsections (d) through (f), respectively; and
            (2) by inserting after subsection (b) the following:
    ``(c) Every labor organization who in any fiscal year made--
            ``(1) any payment or loan, direct or indirect, of money or 
        any other thing of value (including reimbursed expenses), or 
        any promise or agreement therefor, to an employee, or a group 
        or committee of employees, of an employer (other than the labor 
        organization) for the purpose of causing such employee or group 
        or committee to persuade other employees to exercise or not to 
        exercise, or as the manner of exercising, the right to organize 
        and bargain collectively through representatives of their own 
        choosing unless such payments were contemporaneously or 
        previously disclosed to such other employees;
            ``(2) any agreement or arrangement with a labor relations 
        consultant or other independent contractor or organization 
        pursuant to which such consultant, independent contractor, or 
        organization undertakes activities where an object thereof, 
        directly or indirectly, is to persuade employees to exercise or 
        not to exercise, or persuade employees as to the manner of 
        exercising, the right to organize and bargain collectively 
        through representatives of their own choosing, or undertakes to 
        supply such labor organization with information concerning the 
        activities of employees or an employer in connection with a 
        labor dispute involving such labor organization, except 
        information for use solely in conjunction with an 
        administrative or arbitral proceeding or a criminal or civil 
        judicial proceeding; or
            ``(3) any payment (including reimbursed expenses) pursuant 
        to an agreement or arrangement described in paragraph (2);
shall file with the Secretary a report, in a form prescribed by the 
Secretary, signed by its treasurer or corresponding principal officers 
showing in detail the date and amount of each such payment, loan, 
promise, agreement, or arrangement and the name, address, and position, 
if any, of any firm or person to whom it was made and a full 
explanation of the circumstances of all such payments, including the 
terms of any agreement or understanding pursuant to which they were 
made. This shall include the name of any employer targeted by such 
individual and the location of the employer's targeted facility.''.
    (b) Persuasive Activities Relating to the Right To Organize and 
Bargain Collectively; Supplying Information of Activities in Connection 
With Labor Disputes; Filing and Contents of Report of Agreement or 
Arrangement.--
            (1) In general.--Section 202 of the Labor-Management 
        Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 (29 U.S.C. 432) is 
        amended--
                    (A) by redesignating subsection (c) as subsection 
                (d); and
                    (B) by inserting after subsection (b) the 
                following:
    ``(c) Every person who receives payment or loan, direct or 
indirect, of money or any other thing of value (including reimbursed 
expenses), or any promise or agreement therefor from another to seek 
employment with a third party where an object thereof is in whole or in 
part, directly or indirectly--
            ``(1) persuade employees of the third party to exercise or 
        not to exercise, or as to the manner of exercising, the right 
        to organize and bargain collectively through representatives of 
        their own choosing; or
            ``(2) supply a labor organization with information 
        concerning the activities of employees or agents of third party 
        in connection with a labor dispute involving such third part, 
        except information for use solely in conjunction with an 
        administrative or arbitral proceeding or a criminal or civil 
        judicial proceeding;
shall file within thirty days after entering into such agreement or 
arrangement a report with the Secretary, signed by its treasurer or 
corresponding principal officers, containing the name under which such 
person is engaged in doing business and the address of its principal 
office, and a detailed statement of the terms and conditions of such 
agreement or arrangement. Every such person shall file annually, with 
respect to each fiscal year during which payments were made as a result 
of such an agreement or arrangement, a report with the Secretary, 
signed by its president and treasurer or corresponding principal 
officers, containing a statement (A) of its receipts of any kind from 
labor organizations on account of labor relations advice or services, 
designating the sources thereof, and (B) of its disbursements of any 
kind, in connection with such services and the purposes thereof. In 
each such case such information shall be set forth in such categories 
as the Secretary may prescribe.''.
            (2) Conforming amendment.--Section 202 of the Labor-
        Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 (29 U.S.C. 432) 
        is amended in subsection (d), as redesignated by paragraph (1), 
        by striking ``under subsection (a)'' and inserting ``under 
        subsection (a) or (c)''.

SEC. 3. REGULATIONS.

    Not later than 6 months after the date of enactment of this Act, 
the Secretary of Labor shall issue such regulations as are necessary to 
carry out the amendments made by this Act.
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