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118TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 7784 
To amend the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 
to clarify reporting requirements. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 21, 2024 
Mr. OWENS introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Education and the Workforce 
A BILL 
To amend the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure 
Act of 1959 to clarify reporting requirements. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Start Applying Labor 
Transparency Act’’ or ‘‘SALT Act’’. 
SEC. 2. LABOR-MANAGEMENT REPORTING AND DISCLO-
SURE ACT OF 1959. 
(a) FILING AND CONTENTS OF REPORT OF PAY-
MENTS, LOANS, PROMISES, AGREEMENTS, OR ARRANGE-
MENTS.—Section 201 of the Labor-Management Report-
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ing and Disclosure Act of 1959 (29 U.S.C. 431) is amend-
ed— 
(1) by redesignating subsections (c) through (e) 
as subsections (d) through (f), respectively; and 
(2) by inserting after subsection (b) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(c) Every labor organization who in any fiscal year 
made— 
‘‘(1) any payment or loan, direct or indirect, of 
money or any other thing of value (including reim-
bursed expenses), or any promise or agreement 
therefor, to an employee, or a group or committee of 
employees, of an employer (other than the labor or-
ganization) for the purpose of causing such employee 
or group or committee to persuade other employees 
to exercise or not to exercise, or as the manner of 
exercising, the right to organize and bargain collec-
tively through representatives of their own choosing 
unless such payments were contemporaneously or 
previously disclosed to such other employees; 
‘‘(2) any agreement or arrangement with a 
labor relations consultant or other independent con-
tractor or organization pursuant to which such con-
sultant, independent contractor, or organization un-
dertakes activities where an object thereof, directly 
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or indirectly, is to persuade employees to exercise or 
not to exercise, or persuade employees as to the 
manner of exercising, the right to organize and bar-
gain collectively through representatives of their own 
choosing, or undertakes to supply such labor organi-
zation with information concerning the activities of 
employees or an employer in connection with a labor 
dispute involving such labor organization, except in-
formation for use solely in conjunction with an ad-
ministrative or arbitral proceeding or a criminal or 
civil judicial proceeding; or 
‘‘(3) any payment (including reimbursed ex-
penses) pursuant to an agreement or arrangement 
described in paragraph (2); 
shall file with the Secretary a report, in a form prescribed 
by the Secretary, signed by its treasurer or corresponding 
principal officers showing in detail the date and amount 
of each such payment, loan, promise, agreement, or ar-
rangement and the name, address, and position, if any, 
of any firm or person to whom it was made and a full 
explanation of the circumstances of all such payments, in-
cluding the terms of any agreement or understanding pur-
suant to which they were made. This shall include the 
name of any employer targeted by such individual and the 
location of the employer’s targeted facility.’’. 
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(b) PERSUASIVE ACTIVITIES RELATING
TO
THE 
RIGHT TO ORGANIZE AND BARGAIN COLLECTIVELY; SUP-
PLYING INFORMATION OF ACTIVITIES IN CONNECTION 
WITH LABOR DISPUTES; FILING AND CONTENTS OF RE-
PORT OF AGREEMENT OR ARRANGEMENT.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 202 of the Labor- 
Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 
(29 U.S.C. 432) is amended— 
(A) by redesignating subsection (c) as sub-
section (d); and 
(B) by inserting after subsection (b) the 
following: 
‘‘(c) Every person who receives payment or loan, di-
rect or indirect, of money or any other thing of value (in-
cluding reimbursed expenses), or any promise or agree-
ment therefor from another to seek employment with a 
third party where an object thereof is in whole or in part, 
directly or indirectly— 
‘‘(1) persuade employees of the third party to 
exercise or not to exercise, or as to the manner of 
exercising, the right to organize and bargain collec-
tively through representatives of their own choosing; 
or 
‘‘(2) supply a labor organization with informa-
tion concerning the activities of employees or agents 
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of third party in connection with a labor dispute in-
volving such third part, except information for use 
solely in conjunction with an administrative or arbi-
tral proceeding or a criminal or civil judicial pro-
ceeding; 
shall file within thirty days after entering into such agree-
ment or arrangement a report with the Secretary, signed 
by its treasurer or corresponding principal officers, con-
taining the name under which such person is engaged in 
doing business and the address of its principal office, and 
a detailed statement of the terms and conditions of such 
agreement or arrangement. Every such person shall file 
annually, with respect to each fiscal year during which 
payments were made as a result of such an agreement or 
arrangement, a report with the Secretary, signed by its 
president and treasurer or corresponding principal offi-
cers, containing a statement (A) of its receipts of any kind 
from labor organizations on account of labor relations ad-
vice or services, designating the sources thereof, and (B) 
of its disbursements of any kind, in connection with such 
services and the purposes thereof. In each such case such 
information shall be set forth in such categories as the 
Secretary may prescribe.’’. 
(2) CONFORMING
AMENDMENT.—Section 202 
of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure 
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