Small Businesses before Bureaucrats Act

Subjects: Labor and Employment


<html><body><pre>[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3400 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3400

    To amend the National Labor Relations Act to adjust the dollar 
thresholds for National Labor Relations Board jurisdiction over certain 
                labor disputes, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 17, 2023

   Mr. Good of Virginia (for himself, Mr. Perry, Mr. Moolenaar, Mrs. 
Miller of Illinois, Mr. Tiffany, Mr. Duncan, Mr. Burlison, Mr. Weber of 
  Texas, Mr. C. Scott Franklin of Florida, Mrs. Luna, Mr. Clyde, Mr. 
 Norman, Ms. Van Duyne, Mr. Babin, Mr. Cole, Mr. Estes, and Mr. Cline) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                      Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend the National Labor Relations Act to adjust the dollar 
thresholds for National Labor Relations Board jurisdiction over certain 
                labor disputes, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Small Businesses before Bureaucrats 
Act''.

SEC. 2. INCREASE OF DOLLAR THRESHOLD FOR NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD 
              JURISDICTION OVER CERTAIN LABOR DISPUTES.

    (a) In General.--Section 14(c) of the National Labor Relations Act 
(29 U.S.C. 164(c)) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating paragraph (2) as paragraph (3); and
            (2) by inserting after paragraph (1) the following:
    ``(2) In establishing by rule any dollar threshold with respect to 
a class or category of employers for the purposes of declining to 
assert jurisdiction over certain labor disputes involving such class or 
category of employers, the Board shall establish such dollar threshold 
at an amount--
            ``(A) for calendar year 2023, equal to the product of--
                    ``(i) the dollar threshold applicable to such class 
                or category as of the day prior to the date of 
                enactment of this paragraph, multiplied by
                    ``(ii) ten; and
            ``(B) for any calendar year after 2023, equal to the 
        product of--
                    ``(i) the dollar threshold applicable to such class 
                or category for calendar year 2023 (after the date of 
                enactment of this paragraph), multiplied by
                    ``(ii) the quotient obtained by dividing--
                            ``(I) the Personal Consumption Expenditure 
                        Per Capita Index (as published by the Bureau of 
                        Economic Analysis) for such calendar year after 
                        2023; by
                            ``(II) the Personal Consumption Expenditure 
                        Per Capita Index for calendar year 2023.''.
    (b) Personal Consumption Expenditure Per Capita Index.--The Bureau 
of Economic Analysis of the Department of Commerce shall prepare and 
publish an index reflecting expenditures for personal consumption by 
Americans on a per capita basis for each year, beginning calendar year 
2024, and such index shall be known as the ``Personal Consumption 
Expenditure Per Capita Index''.
    (c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall 
apply to any decision of the National Labor Relations Board relating to 
the assertion of its jurisdiction over a labor dispute made after the 
date of enactment of this section.
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