US Congress Senate Concurrent Resolution 20 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-1)
Status: Introduced on June 29 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-06-29 - Referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3865-3866)
Pending: Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress that the overtime rule published in the Federal Register by the Secretary of Labor on May 23, 2016, would provide millions of workers with greater economic security and was a legally valid exercise of the authority of the Secretary under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. Expresses the sense of Congress that the final rule issued on May 23, 2016, by the Department of Labor titled "Defining and Delimiting the Exemptions for Executive, Administrative, Professional, Outside Sales and Computer Employees": (1) would provide more than 13 million workers with greater economic security, (2) was created through the legally valid exercises of the congressionally delegated authority of the Department of Labor under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, and (3) should be defended and enforced with due haste.

A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress that the overtime rule published in the Federal Register by the Secretary of Labor on May 23, 2016, would provide millions of workers with greater economic security and was a legally valid exercise of the authority of the Secretary under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.

Sen. Sherrod Brown [D-OH]	Sen. Patty Murray [D-WA]	Sen. Cory Booker [D-NJ]	Sen. Robert Casey [D-PA]
Sen. Bernard Sanders [I-VT]	Sen. Al Franken [D-MN]	Sen. Elizabeth Warren [D-MA]	Sen. Edward Markey [D-MA]
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand [D-NY]	Sen. Richard Blumenthal [D-CT]	Sen. Maria Cantwell [D-WA]	Sen. Jeanne Shaheen [D-NH]
Sen. Tammy Baldwin [D-WI]	Sen. Margaret Hassan [D-NH]	Sen. Jeff Merkley [D-OR]	Sen. Ron Wyden [D-OR]
Sen. Robert Menendez [D-NJ]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-06-29	Senate	Referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3865-3866)

HCR68 (Same As) 2017-06-29 - Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-concurrent-resolution/20/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/sconres20/BILLS-115sconres20is.pdf