S2267-119

In Committee

Ensuring Workers Get PAID Act of 2025

119th Congress Introduced Jul 14, 2025

Analysis under review: This bill has generated analysis that may be too generic or incomplete. Clause-level evidence remains available below.

Summary

What This Bill Does

This bill, Ensuring Workers Get PAID Act of 2025, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting workers, employers, and labor regulators. The main policy domain is Labor, Government Operations, Transportation.

Who Benefits and How

workers, employers, and labor regulators may benefit from new authority, funding, eligibility, regulatory clarity, or reduced risk created by the bill.

Who Bears the Burden and How

federal implementing agencies, workers, employers, and labor regulators may take on implementation duties, reporting obligations, compliance costs, or oversight responsibilities.

Key Provisions

  • Section S1: 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Ensuring Workers Get PAID Act of 2025.
  • Section id7546439CE14A4CA6AC7791ED6CEF61C0: 2. Findings Congress finds the following: In 2018, the Department of Labor launched the nationwide Payroll Audit Independent Determination pilot program...
  • Section idbadd20415f46496280cf956d407213de: 3. Definitions In this Act: The term affected employee means an employee affected by a violation of a minimum wage or overtime hours requirement of the Fair...
  • Section id024b76ee205a44ffb17774578e4cded8: 4. Payroll Audit Independent Determination program The Administrator shall establish a Payroll Audit Independent Determination program (referred to in this...

Evidence Chain:

This summary is generated from the full bill text using AI analysis. Expand "Detailed Analysis" below for identified beneficiaries/burden bearers with clause-level evidence links.

At a Glance

What This Bill Does

This bill, Ensuring Workers Get PAID Act of 2025, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting workers, employers, and labor regulators.

Key Policy Areas

Labor, Government Operations, Transportation

Primary Purpose

This bill, Ensuring Workers Get PAID Act of 2025, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting workers, employers, and labor regulators.

Policy Domains

Labor Government Operations Transportation

Whole bill

Identified Gains
  • workers, employers, and labor regulators
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Identified Costs
  • federal implementing agencies
  • workers, employers, and labor regulators
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Legislative Progress

In Committee
Introduced Committee Passed
Jul 14, 2025

Mr. Sheehy (for himself, Mrs. Blackburn, and Mr. Budd) introduced …

Jul 14, 2025

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, …

Jul 14, 2025

Introduced in Senate

Impact analysis is available but no clear stakeholder effects identified. View clause-level analysis →

Bill Structure & Actor Mappings

Who is "The Secretary" in each section?

Domains
Labor Government Operations Transportation
Actor Mappings
"the_administrator"
→ The Administrator identified in the operative section
"secretary_of_labor"
→ Secretary of Labor

Key Definitions

Terms defined in this bill

1 term
"Administrator" §idbadd20415f46496280cf956d407213de

the Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division of the Department of Labor. The term employee— has the meaning given such term in section 3 of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 203)

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