I 
115TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4972 
To amend the title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimina-
tion in Employment Act of 1967, the Fair Labor Standards Act of 
1938, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the Rehabilitation 
Act of 1973, and the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 
2008 to require that individuals who perform work for employers as 
independent contractors be treated as employees. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 7, 2018 
Ms. NORTON introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Education and the Workforce 
A BILL 
To amend the title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 
the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, 
the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, the Americans 
with Disabilities Act of 1990, the Rehabilitation Act 
of 1973, and the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination 
Act of 2008 to require that individuals who perform 
work for employers as independent contractors be treated 
as employees. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Protecting Inde-
pendent Contractors from Discrimination Act of 2018’’. 
SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS. 
(a) TITLE VII OF
THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT
OF 
1964.—The first sentence of section 701(f) of title VII 
of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. 2000e(f)) is 
amended by inserting ‘‘or an individual who provides work 
for an employer under the terms of an independent con-
tract with such employer,’’ after ‘‘employer,’’. 
(b) AGE DISCRIMINATION IN EMPLOYMENT ACT OF 
1967.—The first sentence of section 11(f) of the Age Dis-
crimination in Employment Act of 1967 (29 U.S.C. 
630(f)) is amended by inserting ‘‘, an individual who pro-
vides work for an employer under the terms of an inde-
pendent contract with such employer,’’ after ‘‘employer’’. 
(c) FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT OF 1938.—Section 
6(d) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 
206(d)) is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(5) For purposes of this subsection, the term 
‘employee’ includes an individual who provides work 
for an employer under the terms of an independent 
contract with such employer.’’. 
(d) AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT OF 1990.— 
The first sentence of section 101(4) of the Americans with 
Disabilities Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12111(4)) is amended 
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by inserting before the period at the end the following: 
‘‘or an individual who provides work for an employer 
under the terms of an independent contract with such em-
ployer’’. 
(e) 
REHABILITATION
ACT
OF
1973.—Section 
505(a)(1) of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. 
794a(a)(1)) is amended by inserting ‘‘or any individual 
who provides work for an employer under the terms of 
an independent contract with such employer’’ after ‘‘appli-
cant for employment’’. 
(f) GENETIC
INFORMATION
NONDISCRIMINATION 
ACT OF 2008.—Section 201(2)(A) of the Genetic Informa-
tion 
Nondiscrimination 
Act 
of 
2008 
(42 
U.S.C. 
2000ff(2)(A)) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘or’’ at the end of clause (iv); 
(2) by striking the period at the end of clause 
(v) and inserting ‘‘; or’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(vi) an individual who provides work 
for an employer under the terms of an 
independent contract with such employer.’’. 
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