Restoring Overtime Pay Act of 2019
Official title: To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to establish a minimum salary threshold for bona fide executive, administrative, and professional employees exemp… Show full official titleShow less
Official title: To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to establish a minimum salary threshold for bona fide executive, administrative, and professional employees exempt from Federal overtime compensation requirements, and automatically update such threshold every 3 years.
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Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
Restoring Overtime Pay Act of 2019
This bill requires the Department of Labor to update the salary threshold applicable to bona fide executive, administrative, and professional employees for purposes of determining eligibility for overtime pay. The bill adopts rulemaking promulgated by Labor in 2016 that established the threshold for exempting such employees from overtime requirements at the 40th percentile of earnings for full-time salaried employees in the lowest-wage census region. The bill also requires updates to the threshold amount every three years.
In addition, the Bureau of Labor Statistics shall publish quarterly on its public website data on the weekly earnings of nonhourly, full-time salaried workers by census region.
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 3197: Restoring Overtime Pay Act of 2019. 116th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/116-HR-3197/
"H.R. 3197: Restoring Overtime Pay Act of 2019." 116th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/116-HR-3197/.
H.R. 3197, 116th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/116-HR-3197/.
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