Outdoor Recreational Outfitting and Guiding Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4838 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4838

    To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to exempt certain 
    employees engaged in outdoor recreational outfitting or guiding 
       services from minimum wage and maximum hours requirements.

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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 18, 2026

  Mr. Daines introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
  referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL

 
    To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to exempt certain 
    employees engaged in outdoor recreational outfitting or guiding 
       services from minimum wage and maximum hours requirements.

    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 ``Outdoor Recreational Outfitting and 
Guiding Act''.

SEC. 2. APPLICATION OF THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT OF 1938 TO CERTAIN 
              EMPLOYEES ENGAGED IN OUTDOOR RECREATIONAL OUTFITTING OR 
              GUIDING SERVICES.

    Section 13(a) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 
213(a)) is amended by inserting after paragraph (1) the following:
            ``(2) any employee primarily engaged in providing outdoor 
        recreational outfitting, including equipment rentals, or 
        guiding services who is employed by an employer primarily 
        engaged in the business of providing such outfitting or guiding 
        services; or''.
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