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H. Rept. 119-423 1 (2025-12-30)

handle is hein.congrecreports/crptxahxt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUTHENTICATED r U.S. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION 4 119TH CONGRESS REPORT 1st Session j HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 119-423 FLEXIBILITY FOR WORKERS EDUCATION ACT DECEMBER 30, 2025.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. WALBERG, from the Committee on Education and Workforce, submitted the following REPORT together with MINORITY VIEWS [To accompany H.R. 2262] [Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office] The Committee on Education and Workforce, to whom was re- ferred the bill (H.R. 2262) to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to exclude certain activities from hours worked, and for other purposes, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon with an amendment and recommends that the bill as amended do pass. The amendment is as follows: Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the Flexibility for Workers Education Act. SEC. 2. TREATMENT OF ATTENDANCE OR PARTICIPATION IN CERTAIN ACTIVITIES. (a) IN GENERAL.-Section 3(o) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 203(o)) is amended to read as follows: (0) HOURS WORKED.-In determining for the purposes of sections 6 and 7 the hours for which an employee is employed, there shall be excluded- (1) any time spent in changing clothes or washing at the beginning or end of each workday which was excluded from measured working time during the week involved by the express terms of or by custom or practice under a bona fide collective-bargaining agreement applicable to the particular employee; and (2) any time spent attending or participating in an education or training pro- gram or a similar activity (such as a lecture), regardless of whether the program or activity is offered or facilitated by the employer, provided that- (A) such attendance or participation occurs outside of the employee's reg- ular working hours; 69-006