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House vote: H.R. 3441 // November 7, 2017

Save Local Business Act

Sponsor: Bradley Byrne (R-AL)

(This measure has not been amended since it was reported to the House on November 1, 2017. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Save Local Business Act (Sec. 2) This bill amends the National Labor Relations Act and the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide that a person may be considered a joint employer in relation to an employee only if such person directly, actually, and immediately, and not in a limited and routine manner, exercises significant control over the essential terms and conditions of employment such as hiring employees, discharging employees, determining individual employee rates of pay and benefits, day-to-day supervision of employees, assigning individual work schedules, positions, and tasks, or administering employee discipline.

Labor and Employment Topic assigned by the Congressional Research Service.

Who won, and how much of the country was behind them

Won the vote · Yea

242 votes, representing 139,564,504 people55.5%of U.S. adults

Lost the vote · Nay

181 votes, representing 105,073,162 people41.8%of U.S. adults

The dotted gap is 2.7% of U.S. adults whose member did not vote, voted “present,” or whose seat was vacant.

Share of U.S. adults represented, the House
SideOutcomeVotesShare of U.S. adults
YeaWon24255.5%
NayLost18141.8%
Not represented on this questionNo position taken02.7%