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HR 5813 114th Congress House

Overtime Reform and Enhancement Act

Official title: To direct the Secretary of Labor to revise rules relating to changes to the exemptions from overtime pay requirements for certain employees to provide a gradua… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: To direct the Secretary of Labor to revise rules relating to changes to the exemptions from overtime pay requirements for certain employees to provide a gradual schedule for such changes, and for other purposes.

Introduced: July 14, 2016 See on congress.gov
Labor and Employment Administrative law and regulatory proceduresDepartment of LaborLabor standardsWages and earnings
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Jul 14, 2016
Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
Jul 14, 2016
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Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Overtime Reform and Enhancement Act

This bill directs the Department of Labor, by December 1, 2016, to revise the rule published in the Federal Register on May 23, 2016, relating to exemptions (from the minimum wage and overtime pay requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act) regarding the rates of pay for executive, administrative, professional, outside sales, and computer employees.

Labor shall revise specified regulations to increase the defining rates of pay of exempted employees from $455 per week to:

  • $692 per week for executive employees effective December 1, 2016;
  • $765 per week for administrative employees effective December 1, 2017;
  • $839 per week for professional employees effective December 1, 2018; and
  • $913 per week for computer employees effective December 1, 2019; and

Such revisions shall also nullify the automatic updates to the amounts of salary and compensation required for such exemptions.

Labor may only update any rate of pay related to these exemptions in accordance with federal rulemaking requirements.

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 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 6
All 6 Democratic 4 Republican 2
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Bera, Ami
California · Sep 28, 2016
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Sewell, Terri A.
Alabama · Sep 28, 2016
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Peters, Scott H.
California · Sep 20, 2016
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Rouzer, David
North Carolina · Sep 20, 2016
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Emmer, Tom
Minnesota · Sep 12, 2016
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Cuellar, Henry
Texas · Jul 14, 2016
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 5813: Overtime Reform and Enhancement Act. 114th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-5813/
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"H.R. 5813: Overtime Reform and Enhancement Act." 114th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-5813/.
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