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HR 5577 115th Congress House

Notification of Your Eldercare Rights Act

Official title: To require the Secretary of Labor, in consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, to draft disclosures describing the rights and liabilities … Show full official titleShow less

Official title: To require the Secretary of Labor, in consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, to draft disclosures describing the rights and liabilities of customers of domestic care services and require that such services provide such disclosures to customers in any contract for such services.

Introduced: April 19, 2018 See on congress.gov
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Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
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Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Notification of Your Eldercare Rights Act

This bill directs the Department of Labor to:

  • draft disclosures which describe the rights and liabilities of customers and providers of domestic care services,
  • require that any provider of domestic care services give such disclosures to each customer before entering into a contract with the customer, and
  • disclose to the customer whether the individual or individuals who will provide such services are employees of the provider of domestic care services or independent contractors.

The bill imposes civil penalties on a provider of domestic care services who contracts with a customer without first providing the disclosures required by this bill.

 Related & companion bills 1
  • HR 4170 Reintroduction of Notification of Your Eldercare Rights Act
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 5577: Notification of Your Eldercare Rights Act. 115th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-5577/
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"H.R. 5577: Notification of Your Eldercare Rights Act." 115th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-5577/.
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H.R. 5577, 115th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-5577/.
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