Companionship Exemption Protection Act

Companionship Exemption Protection Act - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, with respect to the exemption from minimum wage and maximum hour requirements of domestic service employment to provide companionship services for individuals who because of age or infirmity are unable to care for themselves, to specify that such companionship services include third party non-medical in-home care companionship, light housekeeping, meal preparation, errands, assistance to appointments, laundry, medication reminders, bathing, and assistance with incontinence and grooming.

[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3066 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3066

 To preserve the companionship services exemption for minimum wage and 
        overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 23, 2011

  Mr. Terry introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To preserve the companionship services exemption for minimum wage and 
        overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Companionship Exemption Protection 
Act''.

SEC. 2. PRESERVATION OF THE COMPANIONSHIP SERVICES EXEMPTION.

    Paragraph (15) of section 13(a) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 
1938 (29 U.S.C. 213(a)(15)) is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``(including third party non-medical in-
        home care such as companionship, light housekeeping, meal 
        preparation, errands, assistance to appointments, laundry, 
        medication reminders, bathing, and assistance with incontinence 
        and grooming)'' after ``companionship services''; and
            (2) by striking ``(as such terms are defined and delimited 
        by regulations of the Secretary)''.
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