S.Amdt. 1443

SA 1443. Mrs. MURRAY (for herself, Mr. Brown, Mr. Booker, Ms. Warren,
and Mr. Blumenthal) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 1116 proposed by Mr. Enzi to the concurrent resolution H.
Con. Res. 71, establishing the congressional budget for the United
States Government for fiscal year 2018 and setting forth the
appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2019 through 2027; which
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of title III, add the following:

SEC. 3___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO
PROTECTING WORKERS FROM WAGE THEFT.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate
may revise the allocations of a committee or committees,
aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution,
and make adjustments to the pay-as-you-go ledger, for one or
more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between
the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to
protecting workers from wage theft, which may include (1)
creating new civil penalties for employers who engage in wage
theft; (2) giving workers the right to receive full
compensation for all of the work that they perform; (3)
giving workers the right to receive their final paychecks in
a timely manner; (4) requiring employers to provide regular
paystubs to workers; (5) increasing the amount of damages
workers receive when they experience wage theft or experience
retaliation for filing a complaint about wage theft; (6)
increasing the number of years that workers have to bring a
wage theft claim in court and suspending that time limit
while the Department of Labor is conducting an investigation;
or (7) directing the Department of Labor to refer employers
responsible for egregious and comprehensive violations to the
Department of Justice for criminal prosecution, by the
amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes,
provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit
over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2018
through 2022 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2018
through 2027.
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