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Small Businesses before Bureaucrats Act
To amend the National Labor Relations Act to adjust the dollar thresholds for National Labor Relations Board jurisdiction over certain labor disputes, and for other purposes.
Summary
This bill amends the National Labor Relations Act to increase the dollar thresholds used by the National Labor Relations Board to determine which labor disputes fall under its jurisdiction. The thresholds would be increased by a factor of ten for calendar year 2026, and then adjusted annually in subsequent years based on inflation measured by the Personal Consumption Expenditure Per Capita Index. The changes would apply to NLRB decisions made on or after January 1, 2026.
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- Nov 5, 2025 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. · senate
- Nov 5, 2025 Introduced in Senate
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Full text
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
November 5, 2025
Mr. Mullin introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
A BILL
To amend the National Labor Relations Act to adjust the dollar thresholds for National Labor Relations Board jurisdiction over certain labor disputes, and for other purposes.
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 “Small Businesses before Bureaucrats Act”.
SEC. 2. INCREASE OF DOLLAR THRESHOLD FOR NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD JURISDICTION OVER CERTAIN LABOR DISPUTES.
(a) In General.—Section 14(c) of the National Labor Relations Act (29 U.S.C. 164(c)) is amended—
(1) in paragraph (1), by inserting before the period at the end the following: “, except that in the event that such standards used a dollar threshold, such threshold shall be updated in accordance with paragraph (2)”;
(2) by redesignating paragraph (2) as paragraph (3); and
(3) by inserting after paragraph (1) the following:
“(2) In establishing by rule under paragraph (1) any dollar threshold with respect to a class or category of employers for the purposes of declining to assert jurisdiction over certain labor disputes involving such class or category of employers, the Board shall establish such dollar threshold at an amount—
“(A) with respect to calendar year 2026, equal to the product of—
“(i) the dollar threshold applicable to such class or category as of the day prior to the date of enactment of the Small Businesses before Bureaucrats Act, multiplied by
“(ii) ten; and
“(B) with respect to any calendar year after 2026, equal to the product of—
“(i) the dollar threshold applicable to such class or category with respect to calendar year 2026 (after the date of enactment of the Small Businesses before Bureaucrats Act), multiplied by
“(ii) the quotient obtained by dividing—
“(I) the Personal Consumption Expenditure Per Capita Index (as published by the Bureau of Economic Analysis) with respect to the calendar year preceding the applicable calendar year for which the dollar threshold under this subparagraph is determined; by
“(II) the Personal Consumption Expenditure Per Capita Index with respect to calendar year 2026.”.
(b) Personal Consumption Expenditure Per Capita Index.—Beginning in calendar year 2027, the Director of the Bureau of Economic Analysis of the Department of Commerce shall annually prepare and publish an index (to be known as the “Personal Consumption Expenditure Per Capita Index”) that reflects expenditures by individuals in the United States on a per capita basis with respect to the calendar year preceding the calendar year in which the Director prepares and publishes the index.
(c) Effective Date.—The amendments made by this section shall apply to any decision of the National Labor Relations Board relating to the assertion of its jurisdiction over a labor dispute made on or after the later of January 1, 2026, and the date of enactment of this section. <all>
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