Project 2025 Tracker / What’s done, what’s next

18. Department of Labor and Related Agencies · Notable · Needs Congress

Enact the Working Families Flexibility Act

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587 18. Department of Labor and Related Agencies

“Congress should enact the Working Families Flexibility Act. The Working Families Flexibility Act would allow employees in the private sector the ability to choose between receiving time-and-a-half pay or accumulating time-and-a-half paid time off (a choice that many public sector workers already have).”

What has happened

  1. Not started

    The Working Families Flexibility Act of 2025 exists in both chambers and has passed neither. H.R. 2870 was ordered reported by the Committee on Education and Workforce 19-15 on 2025-11-20, reported as H. Rept. 119-496 and placed on the Union Calendar on 2026-02-12; S. 1158 was referred to the HELP Committee on 2025-03-26 and has had no action since. Under the Requires-Congress ladder, being reported and calendared is not passage by 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

  • §3b: “Ordered reported, marked up, or placed on a calendar → still not started, with the committee action named in the note.” That is exactly this bill’s position.
  • The Congressional Budget Office scored H.R. 2870 on 2026-08-24 (CREC-2026-08-24), which is a sign of floor intent and still not a vote.
  • Bill actions read from api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/2870/actions; the corresponding Senate bill from bills.ndjson.
Action
create
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Working Families Flexibility Act
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