[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 169 (Thursday, October 19, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S6668]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1443. Mrs. MURRAY (for herself, Mr. Brown, Mr. Booker, Ms. Warren, 
and Mr. Blumenthal) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 1116 proposed by Mr. Enzi to the concurrent resolution H. 
Con. Res. 71, establishing the congressional budget for the United 
States Government for fiscal year 2018 and setting forth the 
appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2019 through 2027; which 
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of title III, add the following:

     SEC. 3___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO 
                   PROTECTING WORKERS FROM WAGE THEFT.

       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, 
     and make adjustments to the pay-as-you-go ledger, for one or 
     more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between 
     the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to 
     protecting workers from wage theft, which may include (1) 
     creating new civil penalties for employers who engage in wage 
     theft; (2) giving workers the right to receive full 
     compensation for all of the work that they perform; (3) 
     giving workers the right to receive their final paychecks in 
     a timely manner; (4) requiring employers to provide regular 
     paystubs to workers; (5) increasing the amount of damages 
     workers receive when they experience wage theft or experience 
     retaliation for filing a complaint about wage theft; (6) 
     increasing the number of years that workers have to bring a 
     wage theft claim in court and suspending that time limit 
     while the Department of Labor is conducting an investigation; 
     or (7) directing the Department of Labor to refer employers 
     responsible for egregious and comprehensive violations to the 
     Department of Justice for criminal prosecution, 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 2018 
     through 2022 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2018 
     through 2027.
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