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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 2262
To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to exclude certain activities
from hours worked, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH21, 2025
Mrs. H
INSON(for herself, Ms. LETLOW, and Mr. MESSMER) introduced the
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and
Workforce
A BILL
To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to exclude
certain activities from hours worked, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Flexibility for Workers 4
Education Act’’. 5
SEC. 2. TREATMENT OF ATTENDANCE OR PARTICIPATION 6
IN CERTAIN ACTIVITIES. 7
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Section 3(o) of the Fair Labor 8
Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 203(o)) is amended to 9
read as follows: 10
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‘‘(o) HOURSWORKED.—In determining for the pur-1
poses of sections 6 and 7 the hours for which an employee 2
is employed, there shall be excluded— 3
‘‘(1) any time spent in changing clothes or 4
washing at the beginning or end of each workday 5
which was excluded from measured working time 6
during the week involved by the express terms of or 7
by custom or practice under a bona fide collective- 8
bargaining agreement applicable to the particular 9
employee; and 10
‘‘(2) any time spent attending or participating 11
in lectures, education or training programs, and 12
similar activities, regardless of whether the activity 13
is offered or facilitated by the employer, provided 14
that— 15
‘‘(A) such attendance or participation oc-16
curs outside of the employee’s regular working 17
hours; 18
‘‘(B) such attendance or participation is 19
voluntary and the continuation of employment 20
and the working conditions related to such em-21
ployment is not adversely affected by non-at-22
tendance or non-participation; and 23
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‘‘(C) the employee does not perform any 1
productive work for the employer during such 2
attendance or participation.’’. 3
(b) E
FFECTIVEDATE.—The amendment made by 4
subsection (a) shall apply with respect to hours worked 5
on or after the date of enactment of this Act. 6
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