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HR 85 · in committee · niche

Small Business Flexibility Act

What this bill does

  • Bill allows tips to be pooled among two groups of employees instead of one.
  • Affects restaurants and businesses where some workers customarily receive tips.
  • Changes how tip-pooling rules work without new funding or implementation timeline specified.

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Community Threads

Started by Cosponsor

  1. 01

    How would allowing tip pools across two employee groups instead of one change wage distribution between kitchen and front-of-house staff?

  2. 02

    What evidence exists that current tip-pooling restrictions create problems that this flexibility would solve for small businesses?

  3. 03

    Which workers might earn less under expanded tip pooling, and how would they be protected from potential wage loss?

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Sponsor · R-AZ-5

Andy Biggs

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Introduced 2025-01-03

Legislative timeline

  1. 2025-01-03 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.

  2. 2025-01-03 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

  3. 2025-01-03 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

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