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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 567 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To expand labor representation on State and local workforce development |
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| 6 | 6 | | boards, to provide a definition of labor organization, and for other purposes. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 8 | 8 | | JANUARY20, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Ms. S |
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| 10 | 10 | | HERRILL(for herself, Mr. FITZPATRICK, and Mrs. HAYES) introduced |
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| 11 | 11 | | the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and |
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| 12 | 12 | | Workforce |
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| 13 | 13 | | A BILL |
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| 14 | 14 | | To expand labor representation on State and local workforce |
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| 15 | 15 | | development boards, to provide a definition of labor orga- |
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| 16 | 16 | | nization, and for other purposes. |
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| 17 | 17 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 18 | 18 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 19 | 19 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 20 | 20 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Expanding Labor Rep-4 |
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| 21 | 21 | | resentation in the Workforce System Act’’. 5 |
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| 22 | 22 | | SEC. 2. STATE WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARDS. 6 |
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| 23 | 23 | | Section 101(b)(1)(C)(ii) of the Workforce Innovation 7 |
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| 24 | 24 | | and Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3111(b)(1)(C)(ii)) is 8 |
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| 27 | 27 | | •HR 567 IH |
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| 28 | 28 | | amended by striking ‘‘20 percent’’ and inserting ‘‘30 per-1 |
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| 29 | 29 | | cent’’. 2 |
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| 30 | 30 | | SEC. 3. LOCAL WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARDS. 3 |
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| 31 | 31 | | Section 107(b)(2)(B) of the Workforce Innovation 4 |
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| 32 | 32 | | and Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3122(b)(2)(B)) is amend-5 |
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| 33 | 33 | | ed by striking ‘‘20’’ and inserting ‘‘30’’. 6 |
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| 34 | 34 | | SEC. 4. DEFINITION OF LABOR ORGANIZATION. 7 |
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| 35 | 35 | | Section 3 of the Workforce Innovation and Oppor-8 |
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| 36 | 36 | | tunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3102) is amended by adding at the 9 |
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| 37 | 37 | | end the following: 10 |
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| 38 | 38 | | ‘‘(72) L |
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| 39 | 39 | | ABOR ORGANIZATION.—The term ‘labor 11 |
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| 40 | 40 | | organization’ has the meaning given the term in sec-12 |
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| 41 | 41 | | tion 2(5) of the National Labor Relations Act (29 13 |
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| 42 | 42 | | U.S.C. 152(5)), except that such term shall also in-14 |
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| 43 | 43 | | clude— 15 |
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| 44 | 44 | | ‘‘(A) any organization composed of labor 16 |
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| 45 | 45 | | organizations, such as a labor union federation 17 |
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| 46 | 46 | | or a State or municipal labor body; and 18 |
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| 47 | 47 | | ‘‘(B) any organization which would be in-19 |
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| 48 | 48 | | cluded in the definition for such term under 20 |
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| 49 | 49 | | such section 2(5) but for the fact that the orga-21 |
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| 50 | 50 | | nization represents— 22 |
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| 51 | 51 | | ‘‘(i) individuals employed by the 23 |
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| 52 | 52 | | United States, any wholly owned Govern-24 |
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| 53 | 53 | | ment corporation, any Federal Reserve 25 |
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| 56 | 56 | | •HR 567 IH |
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| 57 | 57 | | Bank, or any State or political subdivision 1 |
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| 58 | 58 | | thereof; 2 |
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| 59 | 59 | | ‘‘(ii) individuals employed by persons 3 |
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| 60 | 60 | | subject to the Railway Labor Act (45 4 |
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| 61 | 61 | | U.S.C. 151 et seq.); or 5 |
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| 62 | 62 | | ‘‘(iii) individuals employed as agricul-6 |
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| 63 | 63 | | tural laborers.’’. 7 |
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