SALT Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 2952 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 2952 To amend the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 to clarify reporting requirements. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES April 17, 2025 Mr. Owens introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Workforce _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To amend the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 to clarify reporting requirements. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Start Applying Labor Transparency Act'' or ``SALT Act''. SEC. 2. LABOR-MANAGEMENT REPORTING AND DISCLOSURE ACT OF 1959. (a) Filing and Contents of Report of Payments, Loans, Promises, Agreements, or Arrangements.--Section 201 of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 (29 U.S.C. 431) is amended-- (1) by redesignating subsections (c) through (e) as subsections (d) through (f), respectively; and (2) by inserting after subsection (b) the following: ``(c) Every labor organization who in any fiscal year made-- ``(1) any payment or loan, direct or indirect, of money or any other thing of value (including reimbursed expenses), or any promise or agreement therefor, to an employee, or a group or committee of employees, of an employer (other than the labor organization) for the purpose of causing such employee or group or committee to persuade other employees to exercise or not to exercise, or as the manner of exercising, the right to organize and bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing unless such payments were contemporaneously or previously disclosed to such other employees; ``(2) any agreement or arrangement