Title: Small Businesses before Bureaucrats Act
Policy area: Labor and Employment

Summary:
Small Businesses before Bureaucrats Act
This bill increases by a factor of 10 the revenue thresholds for businesses subject to the jurisdiction of the National Labor Relations Board.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7743 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7743

    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 12, 2022

Mr. Good of Virginia (for himself, Mrs. Miller of Illinois, Mr. Harris, 
 Mr. Weber of Texas, Mr. Tiffany, Mr. Gohmert, Mr. Norman, Mr. Higgins 
of Louisiana, Mr. Moolenaar, Mr. Duncan, and Mr. Perry) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and 
                                 Labor

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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 2022, 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 2022, equal to 
                the product of--
                            ``(i) the dollar threshold applicable to 
                        such class or category for calendar year 2022 
                        (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 
                                2022; by
                                    ``(II) the Personal Consumption 
                                Expenditure Per Capita Index for 
                                calendar year 2022.''.
    (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 
2023, 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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