House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Committee action
Direct Seller and Real Estate Agent Harmonization Act
Official title: To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to clarify the definition of employee as it relates to direct sellers and real estate agents, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Kevin Kiley R-CAWhere it went
- IntroducedMay 19, 2025
- Committee actionSep 17, 2025
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 8, 2026 — Supplemental report filed by the Committee on Education and Workforce, H. Rept. 119-494, Part II.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3495.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 3495, Direct Seller and Real Estate Agent Harmonization Act” on February 3, 2026. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Education and Workforce on September 17, 2025”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, February 3, 2026 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/62060
- CBO publication date
- February 3, 2026
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3495, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/3495
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- October 15, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- October 19, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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- Committee reportsCongress.gov lists 2 committee reports for this bill: H. Rept. 119-494,Part 2 ↗; H. Rept. 119-494 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Education and Workforce Committee on September 8, 2026.Source: Congress.gov, reported September 8, 2026 ↗
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- committeeReports
- Report API records
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/119/HRPT/494
https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/119/HRPT/494 - Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3495, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/3495
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- October 15, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- October 19, 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. KILEY of California, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 84, May 19, 2025, Page H2147):Article I Section 8Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 19, 2025 ↗
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- Statement length
- 19 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3495, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/3495
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- October 15, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- October 19, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
31 cosponsors — 20 Republicans, 11 Democrats
11 of 31 cosponsors (35%) are from the other party.
Mark Alford (R-MO), Michael Baumgartner (R-WA), Jack Bergman (R-MI), Ken Calvert (R-CA), Salud Carbajal (D-CA), Tom Cole (R-OK), Jim Costa (D-CA), Jeff Crank (R-CO), Henry Cuellar (D-TX), Brad Finstad (R-MN), Vince Fong (R-CA), Robert Garcia (D-CA), Josh Harder (D-CA), Richard Hudson (R-NC), Young Kim (R-CA), Tracey Mann (R-KS), Lisa McClain (R-MI), John McGuire (R-VA), Mark Messmer (R-IN), John Moolenaar (R-MI), Blake Moore (R-UT), Nathaniel Moran (R-TX), Burgess Owens (R-UT), Hillary Scholten (D-MI), Brad Sherman (D-CA), Darren Soto (D-FL), Thomas Suozzi (D-NY), Eric Swalwell (D-CA), Mike Thompson (D-CA), David Valadao (R-CA) and 1 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Kevin Kiley.
- H.R. 1319 (119th) Modern Worker Empowerment Act
- H.R. 1320 (119th) Modern Worker Security Act
- H.R. 584 (119th) No Medicaid for Illegal Immigrants Act of 2025
- H.R. 863 (119th) National Human Trafficking Database Act
- H.R. 4889 (119th) To prohibit States from carrying out more than one Congressional redistricting after a decennial census and apportionment.
- H.R. 5194 (119th) Beautifying Federal Civic Architecture Act of 2025
Related bills
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Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Oct 19, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.