House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Schedules That Work Act
Official title: To permit employees to request changes to their work schedules without fear of retaliation and to ensure that employers consider these requests, and to require employers to provide more predictable and stable schedules for employees in certain occupations with evidence of unpredictable and unstable scheduling practices that negatively affect employees, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Rosa DeLauro D-CTWhere it went
- IntroducedDec 17, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Dec 17, 2025 — Referred to the Committee on Education and Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on House Administration, Oversight and Government Reform, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6786.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. DeLAURO, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 213, December 17, 2025, Page H6024):Article I of the United States Constitution and its subsequent amendments, and further clarified and interpreted by the Supreme Court of the United States.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record December 17, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 155 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 6786, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/6786
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- September 19, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 24, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of September 19, 2026). Not every bill gets one.
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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
54 cosponsors — 54 Democrats
0 of 54 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Alma Adams (D-NC), Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ), Joyce Beatty (D-OH), Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Nikki Budzinski (D-IL), André Carson (D-IN), Greg Casar (D-TX), Judy Chu (D-CA), Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO), Danny Davis (D-IL), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), Christopher Deluzio (D-PA), Debbie Dingell (D-MI), Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Dwight Evans (D-PA), Valerie Foushee (D-NC), Maxwell Frost (D-FL), Robert Garcia (D-CA), Jesús García (D-IL), Daniel Goldman (D-NY), Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), John Larson (D-CT), Summer Lee (D-PA), Ted Lieu (D-CA), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Stephen Lynch (D-MA), Seth Magaziner (D-RI), Jennifer McClellan (D-VA) and 24 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Rosa DeLauro.
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 25, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.