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Fair Wages for Home Care Workers Act

To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to ensure that certain caregiving employees are no longer exempted from overtime and minimum wage protections.

Introduced Mar 12, 2026

Latest action (Mar 12, 2026) Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.

Referred to
Education and Workforce Committee
Policy area
Labor and Employment
Issues
Labor & Wages

Summary
  • Removes the exemption from minimum wage and overtime protections for home care workers, including home health aides and personal care aides.
  • Narrows the domestic service exemption from minimum wage and overtime protections to apply only to casual babysitting services.
  • Defines babysitting services as custodial care of infants or children in a private home, but excludes services provided by trained personnel such as registered nurses and home care workers.
  • Defines "casual basis" employment as irregular or intermittent work where babysitting is not the worker's primary vocation, with household work not exceeding 20 percent of total babysitting hours.

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)
73 cosponsors

Money behind the sponsor

Top reported contributors to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.

  • GOOGLE $19,315
  • LANCASTER-LEBANON INTERMEDIATE UNIT 13 $7,500
  • MICROSOFT $6,927
  • RSTUDIO PBC $6,600
  • MCARTHURGLEN $6,600

Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez → · Outside spending →

Actions (2)
  1. Mar 12, 2026 Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce. · house
  2. Mar 12, 2026 Introduced in House

Similar bills (6)

Bills with similar text or summary — includes reintroductions across Congresses. Ranked by semantic similarity of the bill text (computed locally); a neutral discovery aid, not a claim the bills are duplicates.

  • S 4081 — Fair Wages for Home Care Workers Act · Introduced Mar 12, 2026 · Cong. 119 87%
  • HR 2270 — Empowering Employer Child and Elder Care Solutions Act · Introduced Jan 13, 2026 · Cong. 119 72%
  • HR 8663 — Fair Pay Act of 2026 · Introduced May 4, 2026 · Cong. 119 70%
  • HR 3438 — Fair Wage Act of 2025 · Introduced May 15, 2025 · Cong. 119 69%
  • S 3396 — Domestic Workers Bill of Rights Act · Introduced Dec 9, 2025 · Cong. 119 69%
  • HR 6066 — CARE Act of 2025 · Introduced Nov 17, 2025 · Cong. 119 68%

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · Mar 12, 2026

Only one text version is on file, so there’s no earlier version to compare against yet.

Full text

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

March 12, 2026

Ms. Ocasio-Cortez (for herself, Ms. Tlaib, Mrs. Watson Coleman, Mr. Cleaver, Ms. Wilson of Florida, Mr. Bell, Mr. Krishnamoorthi, Ms. Norton, Mrs. McIver, Ms. Hoyle of Oregon, Ms. Simon, Ms. Schakowsky, Mr. Torres of New York, Ms. Lee of Pennsylvania, Mr. Carson, Mr. Moulton, Ms. Pettersen, Ms. Jayapal, Ms. Budzinski, Ms. Johnson of Texas, Ms. Bonamici, Mrs. Dingell, Ms. Pingree, Ms. McBride, Mr. Kennedy of New York, Mr. Evans of Pennsylvania, Ms. Lois Frankel of Florida, Mr. Goldman of New York, Mr. Thanedar, Ms. DelBene, Ms. Dexter, Mr. Swalwell, Ms. Salinas, Ms. Chu, Ms. Balint, Mr. Latimer, Ms. Omar, Mr. Lieu, Mr. Mannion, Mr. Lynch, Ms. Barragan, Ms. Strickland, Mr. McGovern, Mr. Tonko, Mr. Pocan, Mr. Norcross, Mr. Nadler, Ms. McClellan, Ms. Pressley, Ms. Adams, Mrs. Grijalva, Ms. Ansari, Mr. Khanna, Mr. Gomez, Mrs. McBath, Mr. Frost, Mr. Davis of Illinois, Mr. Garcia of Illinois, and Mr. Takano) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Workforce

A BILL

To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to ensure that certain caregiving employees are no longer exempted from overtime and minimum wage protections.

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 “Fair Wages for Home Care Workers Act”.

SEC. 2. MINIMUM WAGE AND OVERTIME FOR CERTAIN CAREGIVERS.

(a) Exemption Amendments.—Section 13 of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 213) is amended—

(1) in subsection (a)(15), by striking “casual basis in domestic service employment” and all that follows through “of the Secretary)” and inserting the following: “casual basis to provide babysitting services”; and

(2) by repealing subsection (b)(21).

(b) Definitions.—Section 3 of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 203) is amended by adding at the end the following:

“(z) ‘Babysitting services’—

“(1) means the custodial care and protection of infants or children in or about a private home in which the infants or children reside; and

“(2) does not include services relating to the care and protection of infants or children which are performed by trained personnel, such as registered, vocational, or practical nurses, and home care workers, including home health aides and personal care aides. “(aa) ‘Casual basis’, with respect to the provision of babysitting services—

“(1) means employment which is irregular or intermittent (as defined and delimited by the Secretary), and which is not performed by an individual whose vocation is babysitting; and

“(2) may include the performance of household work not related to the provision of babysitting services, so long as the time performing such work does not exceed 20 percent of the total hours worked while providing babysitting services.”. <all>

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