House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Committee action
Empowering Employer Child and Elder Care Solutions Act
Official title: To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to exclude child and dependent care services and payments from the rate used to compute overtime compensation.
Sponsor: Rep. Mark Messmer R-INWhere it went
- IntroducedMar 21, 2025
- Committee actionApr 9, 2025
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jan 13, 2026 — POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - Pursuant to clause 1(c) of rule XIX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on H.R. 2270 is postponed.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2270.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 2270, Empowering Employer Child and Elder Care Solutions Act” on July 29, 2025. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Education and the Workforce on April 9, 2025”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, July 29, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61601
- CBO publication date
- July 29, 2025
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2270, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/2270
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- July 18, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- October 23, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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- Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 119-413 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Education and Workforce Committee on December 18, 2025.Source: Congress.gov, reported December 18, 2025 ↗
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- Report API records
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/119/HRPT/413
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2270, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/2270
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- July 18, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- October 23, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. MESSMER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 52, March 21, 2025, Page H1190):Section 8 of Article 1 of the ConstitutionSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 21, 2025 ↗
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- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2270, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/2270
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- July 18, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- October 23, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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Vote results
1 recorded roll-call vote on H.R. 2270, oldest first. None of them was a final passage vote.
Roll-call votes (1) — motions, rulings and amendments (1 House). Tap to show.
Oldest first. Totals are yea–nay.
- Send the bill back to committeeMotion to recommitHouse · Jan 13, 2026 · roll 20R 0–213 D 209–0209–213Failed
Yea–nay by party (R = Republicans, D = Democrats, I = independents). Counts for present and not-voting members are shown where there were any. Showing all 1 of 1 recorded votes. Sorted by date; within a chamber by roll-call number.
Cosponsors
8 cosponsors — 7 Republicans, 1 Democrat
1 of 8 cosponsors (12%) are from the other party.
Randy Fine (R-FL), Josh Harder (D-CA), Mark Harris (R-NC), Ashley Hinson (R-IA), John Moolenaar (R-MI), Robert Onder (R-MO), Elise Stefanik (R-NY), Glenn Thompson (R-PA).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Mark Messmer.
- H.R. 6213 (119th) Heat Workforce Standards Act of 2025
- H.R. 7720 (119th) Child Care Payment Integrity and Fraud Accountability Act of 2026
- H.R. 6466 (119th) Forced Abortion Prevention and Accountability Act
- H.R. 4107 (119th) GOLDEN DOME Act of 2025
- H.R. 3044 (119th) No Vaccine Mandates in Higher Education Act
- H.R. 7547 (119th) DOD and USDA Interagency Research Act
Related bills
Relationships as recorded by Congress.gov.
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Oct 23, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.