18. Department of Labor and Related Agencies · Minor · Needs Congress
Amend the FLSA to exclude on-site childcare costs from the regular rate
Printed page 587 18. Department of Labor and Related Agencies
“Congress should amend the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) to clarify that an employer’s expenses in providing on-site childcare are not part of an employee’s regular rate of pay.”
What has happened
- Not started
H.R. 2270, the Empowering Employer Child and Elder Care Solutions Act — a bill to amend the FLSA to exclude child and dependent care services and payments from the regular rate used to compute overtime — reached the House floor under H. Res. 988 on 2026-01-13, was debated for an hour, survived a motion to recommit 209-213, and then had further proceedings postponed under clause 1(c) of rule XIX. No vote on passage was ever taken and none has been since. The bill has not passed a chamber.
No action found yet. This entry is the starting point, not a finding.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
- Boundary call, flagged to the spot-check register: floor consideration plus a defeated motion to recommit is further along than the “reported or calendared” case §3b addresses, but it is still short of the rung §3b sets, which is “passed by one chamber”. Called not started. A reviewer who reads a scheduled-and-debated bill as an attempt would put it at attempted.
- Four of the five bills made in order by H. Res. 988 met different fates and are tracked on different items: H.R. 2988 passed 213-205 (#1671), H.R. 2262 failed 209-215, H.R. 2270 was postponed (this item), H.R. 2312 was postponed, and H.R. 4366 never came to a vote (#1628).
- Actions read from
api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/2270/actions; the bill’s short title from/v3/bill/119/hr/2270.
- Action
- other
- Object
- Fair Labor Standards Act regular rate of pay
- ID
- 1614