[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 50 (Wednesday, March 25, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S1928]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 789. Mr. BROWN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 11, setting forth the 
congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 
2016 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal 
years 2017 through 2025; which was ordered to lie on the table; as 
follows:

       At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. ___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO PREVENTING 
                   MISCLASSIFICATION OF WORKERS AS INDEPENDENT 
                   CONTRACTORS.

       The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate 
     may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, 
     aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution 
     for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, 
     amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports 
     relating to protecting workers from being misclassified as 
     independent contractors to ensure that such workers have 
     access to safeguards provided to employees, including fair 
     labor standards under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 
     (29 U.S.C. 201 et seq.), health and safety protections under 
     the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (29 U.S.C. 651 
     et seq.), and unemployment and workers' compensation benefits 
     under applicable Federal law, and preventing employers from 
     misclassifying workers as independent contractors to avoid 
     paying their fair share of taxes under the Internal Revenue 
     Code of 1986 by the amounts provided in such legislation for 
     those purposes, provided that such legislation would not 
     increase the deficit over either the period of the total of 
     fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of 
     fiscal years 2016 through 2025.
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