18. Department of Labor and Related Agencies · Notable · Needs Congress
Enact the Save Local Business Act
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“Congress should enact the Save Local Business Act, which would codify the long-standing definition that has existed outside the Obama-era and Biden-proposed rules.”
What has happened
- Not started
The Save Local Business Act (H.R. 4366) would codify the direct-and-immediate-control joint employer standard under the NLRA and the FLSA. It was ordered reported 20-16 on 2025-07-23, reported as H. Rept. 119-422 and calendared on 2025-12-30, and made in order under a closed rule by H. Res. 988, which the House adopted on 2026-01-13. The House then passed one of the five bills in that rule and never took up H.R. 4366; the bill's latest action is still the adoption of the rule. It 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 worth naming: adopting a special rule that makes a bill in order is a floor vote, but it is a vote on the rule, not on the bill. §3b’s rung is “passed by one chamber”, which H.R. 4366 has not done. Called not started; flagged to the spot-check register.
- Actions read from
api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/4366/actions(complete list, latest action 2026-01-13). No Senate companion appears inbills.ndjson. - The regulatory half of the same object is #1627, which is partial.
- Action
- create
- Object
- Save Local Business Act
- ID
- 1628