Domestic Workers Bill of Rights Act
Introduced
Moved
Reached a final decision
Introduced 2025-12-09
Derived from the official record below.
Officially: “Domestic Workers Bill of Rights Act” Read the full text
Labor and Employment
What it does
The bill removes live-in domestic workers' exclusion from federal overtime pay and extends Title VII civil rights protections against employment discrimination to domestic employees. It requires written work agreements, paid sick leave, meal and rest breaks, and schedule-change notice for domestic workers, and bans certain wage deductions and retaliation against them. Live-in workers who are fired must get written notice within 48 hours, plus 30 days of lodging or severance pay. It creates a board to recommend workplace standards and temporarily raises Medicaid matching funds for domestic care services.
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Where it is
Introduced · 2025-12-09
In the Senate.
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Official documents
The on-site text is shown verbatim from the GovInfo publication, captured 2026-07-12. The same version at GovInfo.
The numbers
2%
of bills introduced became law in the 118th Congress, 2023 to 2024 (n=16,213)
18
sponsors, out of 51 needed to pass
Who is lobbying on this
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNIONvia AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION
1 filingFrom 1 filing in federal lobbying disclosures (LDA), via lda.gov, naming this bill (2025). Filings are self-reported by lobbying firms and show who is paid to influence this bill. They do not say which side, or whether it worked.
Every fact on this page links to its source, starting with the official bill record. Last action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (2025-12-09).