Small Business Flexibility Act

Bill: 119-hr-85
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Biggs, Andy [R-AZ-5]
Introduced: 2025-01-03
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Wages and earnings
Latest action: action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.

Summaries:
action_date: 2025-01-03
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Small Business Flexibility Act</strong></p><p>This bill provides&nbsp;statutory authority for the pooling of tips among&nbsp;two pools of employees. The first pool consists of employees who&nbsp;customarily and regularly receive tips&nbsp;(as is permitted under the current statute). The second pool consists of&nbsp;(1) employees who&nbsp;customarily and regularly receive tips and are paid at least minimum wage, and (2) employees who&nbsp;do not customarily and regularly receive tips.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

tv_txt: I 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 85 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 3, 2025 Mr. Biggs of Arizona introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Workforce A BILL To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to allow the pooling of tips among all employees, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Small Business Flexibility Act . 2. Tip pooling Section 3(m)(2) of the Fair Labor Standards Act ( 29 U.S.C. 203(m)(2) ) is amended— (1) in subparagraph (A)(ii), by striking employees who customarily and regularly receive tips and inserting pools of employees described in subparagraph (C) ; and (2) by adding at the end the following: (C) The pools of employees described in this subparagraph are as follows: (i) Employees who customarily and regularly receive tips. (ii) Employees who— (I) customarily and regularly receive tips and receive a cash wage paid by the employer that is not less than the wage in effect under section 6(a)(1); and (II) do not customarily and regularly receive tips. .