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introduced matched: small employers; wage and hour; payroll taxes; Labor & Employment
Wage Theft Prevention and Wage Recovery Act of 2022
If you are an employee or employer, the 2022 bill did not create new federal paystub requirements or a 14-day final-pay deadline because it was not enacted.
final rule matched: food trucks; commercial vehicles; Transportation
Resetting NHTSA's Fuel Economy Program: Commercial Medium- and Heavy-Duty On-Highway Vehicles and Work Trucks
NHTSA says it can set fuel-economy standards only for whole commercial trucks, not for engines by themselves, and will stop enforcing engine-only standards while it rewrites the rules.
final rule matched: food trucks; commercial vehicles; Transportation
The Safer Affordable Fuel-Efficient (SAFE) Vehicles Rule III for Model Years 2022 to 2031 Passenger Cars and Light Trucks
If you buy a new passenger car or light truck between model years 2022 and 2031, the fuel-economy target your vehicle must meet — and how it's classified for that target — is being reset under this rule.
proposed rule matched: small employers; Labor & Employment; Taxation
Determination of Target Normal Cost and Funding Target for Single-Employer Defined Benefit Plans
The IRS is proposing to change how employers calculate the yearly contribution they must make to a traditional single-employer pension plan, updating the rules for target normal cost and funding target to match later statutory amendments.
introduced matched: commercial vehicles; Taxation; Transportation
American Subsidies for American Autos Act of 2024
The bill would restrict federal automobile subsidies and tax incentives to support domestically manufactured vehicles.
proposed rule matched: food trucks; mobile food vendors; food safety
Requirements for Additional Traceability Records for Certain Foods: Enforcement Policy for Certain Retail Food Establishments and Restaurants; Draft Guidance for Industry; Availability
If you run a restaurant or retail food store, FDA is proposing not to enforce the new FSMA 204 traceability recordkeeping requirements against your establishment for now.
introduced matched: food trucks; mobile food vendors; food safety
NO TIME TO Waste Act
A newly introduced House bill would make USDA lead a coordinated federal effort against food loss and waste, including a new Office of Food Loss and Waste, grants for states and tribes, model local policies, and a national public-awareness campaign with a 50% reduction goal by 2030.
introduced matched: food trucks; mobile food vendors; Labor & Employment
Food Secure Strikers Act of 2023
If you are a striking worker, this bill would remove strike-related SNAP eligibility restrictions for you and your household if enacted, but would not guarantee benefits.
introduced matched: food trucks; mobile food vendors; Labor & Employment
Food Secure Strikers Act of 2023
If you participate in a strike, this bill would remove strike-related SNAP eligibility restrictions for your household, but it has not changed current eligibility rules.
introduced matched: small employers; wage and hour; Labor & Employment
Wage Theft Prevention and Wage Recovery Act
If you leave a job covered by the bill, the proposal would require your employer to pay your final wages within 14 days of termination if enacted.
introduced matched: small employers; wage and hour; Labor & Employment
Wage Theft Prevention and Wage Recovery Act
If you are owed unpaid minimum wages or overtime, this bill proposes stronger recovery mechanisms but has not changed your existing legal remedies.
introduced matched: small employers; wage and hour; Labor & Employment
Time Off to Vote Act
If you work for a private employer on a federal election day, this bill — if enacted — would entitle you to request two consecutive paid hours to vote without losing pay or benefits.
introduced matched: small employers; wage and hour; Labor & Employment
Tipped Employee Protection Act
If you work in a job where you sometimes receive tips, this bill would let your employer pay you the subminimum tipped cash wage regardless of what tasks you spend your shift doing, so long as your tips bring you up to the federal minimum.
final rule matched: food trucks; mobile food vendors; food safety
Food Additives Permitted for Direct Addition to Food for Human Consumption; Vitamin D2 Inactive Bakers Yeast
The FDA is allowing vitamin D2 inactive bakers yeast to be added to certain foods as a vitamin D source, following a petition by Lallemand Inc.
final rule matched: food trucks; mobile food vendors; food safety
Food Additives Permitted in Feed and Drinking Water of Animals; Chromium Propionate
The FDA is allowing chromium propionate to be used as a chromium source in feed for laying hens and breeder chickens.
introduced matched: food trucks; mobile food vendors; food safety
NO TIME TO Waste Act
If you operate a food recovery organization, this bill proposes USDA support for recovery infrastructure and partnerships, but its introduced status does not make that support available.
final rule matched: food trucks; mobile food vendors; food safety
Food Additives Permitted in Feed and Drinking Water of Animals; Chromium DL-methionine Chelate
FDA is allowing chromium DL-methionine chelate to be added to cattle feed as a nutritional source of chromium.
proposed rule matched: food trucks; mobile food vendors; food safety
Action Levels for Cadmium in Processed Food Intended for Babies and Young Children; Draft Guidance for Industry; Availability
If you buy processed foods made for a child under 2, FDA is proposing cadmium limits manufacturers would be expected to meet, but those limits are not yet in force.
introduced matched: food trucks; mobile food vendors; food safety
Feed Our Families Act of 2025
If you receive SNAP, WIC, or other USDA nutrition benefits, this bill — if enacted — would guarantee your benefits continue for at least 90 days during a future government shutdown.
final rule matched: food trucks; mobile food vendors; food safety
Medical Devices; Neurological Devices; Classification of the Prognostic Assessment Software of Mild Cognitive Impairment
If you use mild cognitive impairment prognostic assessment software, this FDA final rule places that device category under Class II requirements with special controls.
final rule matched: food trucks; mobile food vendors; food safety
Hematology and Pathology Devices; Reclassification of In Situ Hybridization Test Systems for Use With a Corresponding Approved Oncology Therapeutic Product
FDA is moving certain cancer-related in situ hybridization lab tests used with approved oncology drugs from the strictest premarket approval path to a lighter special-controls/510(k) path.
final rule matched: food trucks; mobile food vendors; food safety
Medical Devices; Radiology Devices; Classification of the Vaginal Hydrogel Packing System
If you are receiving pelvic radiation therapy, this rule sets the FDA path for hydrogel spacer devices used to shield nearby tissue.
final rule matched: food trucks; mobile food vendors; food safety
Medical Devices; General Hospital and Personal Use Devices; Classification of the Whole Room Microbial Reduction Device
If you work in a facility considering whole-room disinfection equipment, more of these devices may reach the market through the 510(k) pathway with FDA-defined special controls.
proposed rule matched: food trucks; mobile food vendors; food safety
Gastroenterology-Urology Devices; Reclassification of Diagnostic Endoscopic Light Source Systems To Be Renamed Cystoscopic Systems Intended as an Aid for Detection of Bladder Cancer
FDA proposes moving certain cystoscopic light-source systems used to help detect bladder cancer from the strictest premarket-approval pathway into class II with special controls and 510(k) notification, and creating a matching device classification regulation.
final rule matched: food trucks; mobile food vendors; food safety
Nonclinical Testing Terminology
If you're a drug sponsor, you can continue current practices unchanged — the rule only relabels 'animal' testing requirements as 'nonclinical' and adds no new obligations.
final rule matched: food trucks; mobile food vendors; food safety
Medical Devices; Cardiovascular Devices; Classification of the Hyperoxia Monitoring Device Adjunct to Pulse Oximetry
If you receive supplemental oxygen monitored by pulse oximetry, hyperoxia-detecting add-on devices now have a defined FDA pathway to reach the market.
final rule matched: food trucks; mobile food vendors; food safety
Medical Devices; Immunology and Microbiology Devices; Classification of the Hematopoietic Cell Enrichment Kit
If you make or rely on hematopoietic cell enrichment kits, new entrants can now reach the market via 510(k) clearance rather than full premarket approval.
introduced matched: Labor & Employment; Taxation
Automatic IRA Act of 2025
A House bill titled the Automatic IRA Act of 2025 has been introduced and sent to the Ways and Means Committee, pointing toward a tax-committee vehicle for automatic workplace individual retirement accounts.
introduced matched: Labor & Employment; Taxation
Unclaimed Retirement Rescue Plan
A House bill called the Unclaimed Retirement Rescue Plan has been introduced and sent to the Education and Workforce and Ways and Means committees to address unclaimed retirement savings.
introduced matched: Labor & Employment; Transportation
A bill to amend title 49, United States Code, to modify bargaining requirements for proposed changes to the personnel management system of the Federal Aviation Administration.
If you are an FAA employee represented by a union, this bill would have removed the 60-day congressional review period before management could implement personnel changes after mediation failed.
introduced matched: Labor & Employment; Transportation
A bill to amend the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 so as to prohibit reprisals against certain officers, employees, or contractors of air carriers.
Airlines would have been barred from punishing officers, employees, or contractors who lawfully report Federal Aviation Act violations to the government, and anyone hit with that kind of retaliation could have sued.
introduced matched: Labor & Employment; Transportation
A bill to provide for the rehiring of certain former air traffic controllers.
If you were a controller fired after the 1981 PATCO strike, this House-passed bill would require the FAA to rehire at least 500 former controllers in each of 1988 and 1989 and bar the strike itself from being used to reject you at the FAA or Defense Department.
introduced matched: Labor & Employment; Taxation
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a credit for increasing wages paid to child care providers.
If you work as a child care provider or run a child care business, this introduced House bill would create a federal tax credit tied to raising provider wages, but it has not advanced beyond committee.
introduced matched: Labor & Employment; Taxation
ACTION for National Service Act
If you participate in national service programs, this bill is at an early introduced stage and does not yet change any tax treatment of your service benefits.
introduced matched: Labor & Employment; Taxation
Fire Service Workforce Stability Act of 2026
If you work in the fire service, a House bill aimed at workforce stability has been introduced but has no reported provisions yet.
introduced matched: Transportation; Taxation
21st Century Vehicle Choice Act
If you follow federal vehicle rules, this bill has only been introduced and referred to committee — no change to emissions standards, fuel economy rules, or EV incentives has taken effect.
final rule matched: food trucks; Transportation
Route Designations-Vehicle Length, Width, and Weight Limitations
If you drive a large commercial truck through Syracuse, your legal through-route is now I-481 (redesignated as I-81), and downtown access must use the new Business Loop 81 surface streets.
final rule matched: food trucks; Transportation
Hazardous Materials: Incorporation of ASME Code Section XII and the National Board Inspection Code
If you build, operate, or inspect DOT-spec cargo tanks, cryogenic portable tanks, or multi-unit tank cars, you can now use the 2015 ASME Section XII and National Board Inspection Code editions to meet PHMSA construction and inspection requirements.
final rule matched: mobile food vendors; Transportation
Safety Zone; Hurricanes, Tropical Storms, and Severe Weather Events in the Sector Mobile Captain of the Port Zone
The Coast Guard is creating a standing safety zone covering waters in the Sector Mobile area that it can activate during hurricanes and other severe storms, requiring vessels and port operators to follow safety restrictions before, during, and after those events.
proposed rule matched: mobile food vendors; Transportation
Drawbridge Operation Regulation; Bay St. Louis, Bay St. Louis, MS; Back Bay of Biloxi, Biloxi, MS; Pascagoula River, Pascagoula, MS; Three Mile Creek, Mobile, AL; Chickasaw Creek, Saraland, AL.
If you navigate the Back Bay of Biloxi, Pascagoula River, Bay St. Louis, Three Mile Creek, or Chickasaw Creek, requests to open these CSX railroad drawbridges would be handled by a remote operator in Mobile rather than a tender on-site.
introduced matched: small employers; Labor & Employment
Job Protection Act
If you work for an employer with fewer than 50 employees or have less than 12 months of service, this proposal would broaden potential access to FMLA job-protected leave, but it has only been introduced.
proposed rule matched: small employers; Taxation
Employer Contributions to Trump Accounts and Nondiscrimination Rules for Dependent Care Assistance Programs
The IRS is proposing tax rules on how employers can contribute to Trump Accounts and how dependent-care assistance programs must meet nondiscrimination requirements.
introduced matched: small employers; Labor & Employment
Small Business Workforce Pipeline Act of 2026
A newly introduced House bill would create a federal effort to help small businesses recruit and train workers, but it has not moved past referral to the Small Business Committee.
introduced matched: small employers; Labor & Employment
Job Protection Act
If you work at a business with fewer than 50 employees or have been employed for 90 days but less than 12 months, this bill would broaden your potential eligibility for FMLA protections, but it has not been enacted.
introduced matched: small employers; Labor & Employment
Child Care Small Business Insight and Improvement Act of 2023
A House bill awaiting a floor vote would focus federal small-business attention on gathering insight about child-care businesses and improving how they are supported.
final rule matched: small employers; Transportation
Charge Complaint Procedures
Shippers can file demurrage and detention charge complaints at the Federal Maritime Commission through the regular ALJ or small-claims process instead of the interim charge-complaint track, and ocean carriers must prove those charges were reasonable.
proposed rule matched: small employers; Labor & Employment
Revisions to the Office of Hearings and Appeals Procedural Regulations for the DOE Contractor Employee Protection Program
If you work for a DOE contractor and might file a retaliation complaint under Part 708, this proposed rule would clarify your filing deadlines and change which DOE office receives your case.
final rule matched: wage and hour; Labor & Employment
Rescission of Coordinated Enforcement Regulations
The Labor Department is dropping old rules that required Wage and Hour, OSHA, and the Employment and Training Administration to follow formal joint procedures when enforcing labor laws covering migrant and seasonal farmworkers, saying those procedures are outdated and no longer needed.
introduced matched: wage and hour; Labor & Employment
Restoration of Employment Choice for Adults with Disabilities Act
If you are a worker with a disability under 24 entering Section 14(c) employment, this introduced bill would remove rehabilitation and transition-service prerequisites before you could be paid a subminimum wage.
introduced matched: wage and hour; Labor & Employment
Restoration of Employment Choice for Adults with Disabilities Act
If you are a worker with a disability aged 24 or younger, the introduced bill would remove pre-employment training prerequisites for taking a subminimum-wage job if enacted as described.

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