# 119-hr-2299: Ensuring Workers Get PAID Act of 2025

119-hr-2299, Ensuring Workers Get PAID Act of 2025, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Grothman, Glenn [R-WI-6] (R-WI); status in_committee; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-09-30).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-hr-2299
- Congress: 119
- Title: Ensuring Workers Get PAID Act of 2025
- Status: in_committee
- Introduced: 2025-03-24
- Sponsor: Rep. Grothman, Glenn [R-WI-6] (R-WI)
- Cosponsors: 5
- Policy area: Labor and Employment
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2026-09-30

## Summary

This bill would create a **voluntary payroll remediation program** called the Payroll Audit Independent Determination (PAID) to help employers identify and fix inadvertent Fair Labor Standards Act wage and overtime violations. It relies on employer self-audits and structured settlement offers and adds protections for employees who accept or decline PAID offers. - Employers can submit self-audits to the Wage and Hour Division that list affected employees, describe potential violations, and promise corrective action. The Department of Labor must review applications and act on a submission or amended submission within 30 days. - Affected employees receive settlement offers and release forms with proof of payment requirements. If employees accept and receive full payment they release claims limited to the identified violations, and employees who decline may still pursue private lawsuits. - PAID is housed in the Wage and Hour Division and includes confidentiality protections for materials submitted, limits on expanding approved scopes, and new anti-retaliation language added to the Fair Labor Standards Act. The Administrator must provide online and printed compliance assistance within 30 days of enactment.

## Cosponsors (5)

- Rep. Hamadeh, Abraham J. [R-AZ-8] (R-AZ), 2025-03-26T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Stefanik, Elise M. [R-NY-21] (R-NY), 2025-04-07T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Messmer, Mark B. [R-IN-8] (R-IN), 2025-11-17T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Tenney, Claudia [R-NY-24] (R-NY), 2025-11-19T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Fine, Randy [R-FL-6] (R-FL), 2025-11-19T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- Worker protection for PAID choices: benefit, low. If enacted, the bill would add protection to the FLSA so employers could not retaliate against employees for accepting or declining a PAID settlement offer. This would make it illegal for an employer to punish a worker for making that choice under the PAID program.
- New route to collect unpaid wages: mixed, medium. If enacted, the bill would create a new Payroll Audit Independent Determination program to let employees recover unpaid minimum wages or overtime within the Portal-to-Portal statute of limitations (29 U.S.C. 255(a)). The agency would run the program and use employer self-audits to approve settlemen…
- Employer application and review rules: mixed, medium. If enacted, employers would need to submit a detailed self-audit to join the PAID program. Applications must list each affected worker, payroll records, calculations, and assurances that the practice was fixed and not already in litigation. The agency must decide within 30 days of the original or a…

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- 119-hr-404: Hearing Protection Act
- 119-hr-1422: Enhanced Iran Sanctions Act of 2025
- 119-hr-4398: Veteran Burial Timeliness and Death Certificate Accountability Act
- 119-hr-979: AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act of 2025
- 119-hr-425: Repealing Big Brother Overreach Act

## Sources
- [119-hr-2299 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/2299)

## Related
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- [119-hr-404: Hearing Protection Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-404)
- [119-hr-1422: Enhanced Iran Sanctions Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-1422)
- [119-hr-4398: Veteran Burial Timeliness and Death Certificate Accountability Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-4398)
- [119-hr-979: AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-979)
- [119-hr-425: Repealing Big Brother Overreach Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-425)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-2299 (as of 2026-09-30).