To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to exempt certain employees engaged in outdoor recreational outfitting or guiding services from minimum wage and maximum hours requirements.

Bill: 116-hr-5835
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. O'Halleran, Tom [D-AZ-1]
Introduced: 2020-02-10
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Labor standards

Outdoor recreation
Latest action: action_date: 2020-02-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.

Summaries:
action_date: 2020-02-10
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This bill expands the exemption of certain seasonal employees from the federal maximum hour requirements to include employees of outdoor recreational outfitting or guiding services.</p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 5835 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES February 10, 2020 Mr. O'Halleran (for himself and Mr. Stewart ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor A BILL To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to exempt certain employees engaged in outdoor recreational outfitting or guiding services from minimum wage and maximum hours requirements.

1. Exemption with respect to certain employees engaged in outdoor recreational outfitting or guiding services Section 13(b) of the Fair Labor Standards Act ( 29 U.S.C. 213(b) ) is amended by inserting after paragraph (3) the following: (4) any employee principally engaged in outdoor recreational outfitting or guiding services and employed by an employer principally engaged in the business of providing such outfitting or guiding services that— (A) does not operate for more than seven months in any calendar year; or (B) had average receipts for any six months of the preceding calendar year that were not more than 33 1/3 per centum of its average receipts for the other six months of such year; or .