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Introduced
06/12/2025
06/12/2025
In Committee
06/12/2025
06/12/2025
Crossed Over
Passed
Dead
Introduced Session
119th Congress
Bill Summary
A BILL To enhance the rights of domestic employees, and for other purposes.
AI Summary
This bill provides comprehensive labor protections and rights for domestic workers, such as home health aides, nannies, housekeepers, and personal care assistants. It establishes a range of workplace protections, including requiring written employment agreements, guaranteeing earned sick days, establishing fair scheduling practices, ensuring meal and rest breaks, protecting privacy, prohibiting unfair wage deductions, and preventing retaliation against workers who assert their rights. The bill creates a Domestic Employee Standards Board to recommend workplace standards, establishes a national hotline for domestic workers, and provides mechanisms for education, outreach, and enforcement of worker rights. It also amends existing labor laws to extend overtime protections, civil rights protections, and other benefits to domestic employees who have historically been excluded from many workplace protections. The legislation aims to address the unique challenges faced by domestic workers, who are predominantly women of color and immigrants, by recognizing the essential nature of their work and providing them with basic labor rights, dignity, and economic security.
Committee Categories
Education
Sponsors (116)
Pramila Jayapal (D)*,
Alma Adams (D),
Gabe Amo (D),
Yassamin Ansari (D),
Becca Balint (D),
Nanette Barragán (D),
Joyce Beatty (D),
Wesley Bell (D),
Don Beyer (D),
Suzanne Bonamici (D),
Brendan Boyle (D),
Shontel Brown (D),
Julia Brownley (D),
Nikki Budzinski (D),
André Carson (D),
Troy Carter (D),
Greg Casar (D),
Sean Casten (D),
Joaquin Castro (D),
Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D),
Judy Chu (D),
Yvette Clarke (D),
Emanuel Cleaver (D),
Steve Cohen (D),
Jasmine Crockett (D),
Danny Davis (D),
Madeleine Dean (D),
Rosa DeLauro (D),
Suzan DelBene (D),
Chris Deluzio (D),
Mark DeSaulnier (D),
Maxine Dexter (D),
Debbie Dingell (D),
Lloyd Doggett (D),
Veronica Escobar (D),
Adriano Espaillat (D),
Dwight Evans (D),
Teresa Fernandez (D),
Cleo Fields (D),
Valerie Foushee (D),
Laura Friedman (D),
Maxwell Frost (D),
John Garamendi (D),
Robert Garcia (D),
Sylvia Garcia (D),
Chuy García (D),
Dan Goldman (D),
Jimmy Gomez (D),
Al Green (D),
Adelita Grijalva (D),
Jahana Hayes (D),
Steven Horsford (D),
Val Hoyle (D),
Jared Huffman (D),
Jonathan Jackson (D),
Sara Jacobs (D),
Hank Johnson (D),
Robin Kelly (D),
Ro Khanna (D),
Raja Krishnamoorthi (D),
Greg Landsman (D),
Summer Lee (D),
Ted Lieu (D),
Stephen Lynch (D),
Seth Magaziner (D),
Doris Matsui (D),
Sarah McBride (D),
Jenn McClellan (D),
Betty McCollum (D),
Jim McGovern (D),
LaMonica McIver (D),
Gregory Meeks (D),
Rob Menendez (D),
Grace Meng (D),
Kweisi Mfume (D),
Gwen Moore (D),
Kevin Mullin (D),
Jerry Nadler (D),
Donald Norcross (D),
Eleanor Holmes Norton (D),
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D),
Ilhan Omar (D),
Chellie Pingree (D),
Mark Pocan (D),
Ayanna Pressley (D),
Mike Quigley (D),
Delia Ramirez (D),
Emily Randall (D),
Deborah Ross (D),
Andrea Salinas (D),
Linda Sánchez (D),
Mary Gay Scanlon (D),
Jan Schakowsky (D),
David Scott (D),
Terri Sewell (D),
Lateefah Simon (D),
Adam Smith (D),
Darren Soto (D),
Melanie Stansbury (D),
Haley Stevens (D),
Marilyn Strickland (D),
Eric Swalwell (D),
Emilia Sykes (D),
Mark Takano (D),
Shri Thanedar (D),
Bennie Thompson (D),
Rashida Tlaib (D),
Jill Tokuda (D),
Ritchie Torres (D),
Lori Trahan (D),
Juan Vargas (D),
Nydia Velázquez (D),
Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D),
Bonnie Watson Coleman (D),
Nikema Williams (D),
Frederica Wilson (D),
Last Action
Referred to the Committee on Education and Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on House Administration, Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, Oversight and Government Reform, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. (on 06/12/2025)
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| Document Type | Source Location |
|---|---|
| State Bill Page | https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3971/all-info |
| BillText | https://www.congress.gov/119/bills/hr3971/BILLS-119hr3971ih.pdf |
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