S 516
118th Congress
Senate
Labor and Employment
Fair Wages for Incarcerated Workers Act of 2023
Introduced: February 16, 2023
Introduced by:
Booker, Cory A.
Democratic
· New Jersey
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Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Feb 16, 2023
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Feb 16, 2023
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Fair Wages for Incarcerated Workers Act of 2023
This bill extends the protections under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, including minimum wage requirements, to incarcerated workers.
Incarcerated workers include individuals detained in a correctional facility who perform work offered or required by or through the correctional facility, including work associated with prison work programs, work release programs, federal prison industries (i.e., UNICOR program), state prison industries, public works programs, restitution centers, correctional facility operations and maintenance, and private entities.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Committees of jurisdiction
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