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H.R. 1377: Transitioning to Integrated and Meaningful Employment Act of 2017

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H.R. 1377: Transitioning to Integrated and Meaningful Employment Act of 2017

115th Congress · introduced 2017-03-07 · Labor and Employment · Latest: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2017-03-07 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Harper, Gregg [R-MS-3] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title

Transitioning to Integrated and Meaningful Employment Act of 2017

Plain summary

Transitioning to Integrated and Meaningful Employment Act of 2017 This bill amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to: (1) prohibit the Department of Labor from issuing new special wage certificates for individuals whose earning or productive capacity is impaired by age, physical or mental deficiency, or injury, and (2) repeal the authority for issuing such certificates six years after the enactment of this bill, at which time any outstanding special wage certificates shall be revoked. Labor shall not renew any special certificate previously provided to an employer unless the employer provides, on an annual basis: (1) individualized assessments of each employee paid subminimum wages under any such special certificate; (2) individualized assessments of each employee that identify how obstacles related to disability prevent each employee paid subminimum wages from transitioning into available job opportunities that pay at or above the minimum wage and the resources provided to each such employee in order to mitigate those disability-related obstacles; and (3) a transition plan for each such employee.

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Official text

Transitioning to Integrated and Meaningful Employment Act of 2017

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Harper, Gregg [R-MS-3] · 52 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL), Chellie Pingree (D-ME), Ken Calvert (R-CA), Seth Moulton (D-MA), Don Bacon (R-NE), Danny K. Davis (D-IL), Paul Tonko (D-NY), Robert J. Wittman (R-VA), Darren Soto (D-FL), Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Tom Cole (R-OK), James P. McGovern (D-MA), Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen (R-AS), Gus M. Bilirakis (R-FL), James E. Clyburn (D-SC), Yvette D. Clarke (D-NY), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Bill Foster (D-IL), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Judy Chu (D-CA)

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong115-hr1377 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong115 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong115