# 119-hr-8868: Restoring Overtime Pay Act of 2026

119-hr-8868, Restoring Overtime Pay Act of 2026, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Takano, Mark [D-CA-39] (D-CA); status introduced; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-10-24).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-hr-8868
- Congress: 119
- Title: Restoring Overtime Pay Act of 2026
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2026-05-15
- Sponsor: Rep. Takano, Mark [D-CA-39] (D-CA)
- Cosponsors: 35
- Policy area: Labor and Employment
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2026-10-24

## Summary

**Restores overtime pay by raising and automatically updating the salary cutoff for white-collar exemptions.** This bill would reset the salary test for executive, administrative, and professional exemptions and create an automatic, data-driven update process tied to Bureau of Labor Statistics data. - Workers: Would raise the salary cutoff over several years, reaching $75,000 by 2029 and then switch to the 55th percentile of full-time salaried weekly earnings in 2030. - Employers and rulemaking: Gives the Labor Secretary authority to set a higher threshold through notice-and-comment rulemaking and requires annual automatic updates that are not subject to notice-and-comment. - Duties and reporting: Alters the duties test for exempt employees by changing numeric limits and narrowing which activities count as nonexempt. It also requires the Bureau of Labor Statistics to publish weekly earnings by region each quarter and requires the Department of Labor to announce revised thresholds at least 60 days before they take effect.

## Cosponsors (35)

- Rep. Min, Dave [D-CA-47] (D-CA), 2026-10-01T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Adams, Alma S. [D-NC-12] (D-NC), 2026-05-15T00:00:00.000Z
- Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large] (D-DC), 2026-05-15T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Tlaib, Rashida [D-MI-12] (D-MI), 2026-05-15T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Scanlon, Mary Gay [D-PA-5] (D-PA), 2026-05-15T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Frost, Maxwell [D-FL-10] (D-FL), 2026-05-15T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Omar, Ilhan [D-MN-5] (D-MN), 2026-05-15T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3] (D-CT), 2026-05-15T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Simon, Lateefah [D-CA-12] (D-CA), 2026-05-15T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Hayes, Jahana [D-CT-5] (D-CT), 2026-05-15T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Mannion, John W. [D-NY-22] (D-NY), 2026-05-15T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Ramirez, Delia C. [D-IL-3] (D-IL), 2026-05-15T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9] (D-IL), 2026-05-15T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Deluzio, Christopher R. [D-PA-17] (D-PA), 2026-05-15T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Lee, Summer L. [D-PA-12] (D-PA), 2026-05-15T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Horsford, Steven [D-NV-4] (D-NV), 2026-05-15T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Dingell, Debbie [D-MI-6] (D-MI), 2026-05-15T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Jayapal, Pramila [D-WA-7] (D-WA), 2026-05-15T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. García, Jesús G. "Chuy" [D-IL-4] (D-IL), 2026-05-15T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Thanedar, Shri [D-MI-13] (D-MI), 2026-05-15T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. McBride, Sarah [D-DE-At Large] (D-DE), 2026-05-15T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Casar, Greg [D-TX-35] (D-TX), 2026-05-15T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Evans, Dwight [D-PA-3] (D-PA), 2026-05-15T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Rivas, Luz M. [D-CA-29] (D-CA), 2026-07-16T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Randall, Emily [D-WA-6] (D-WA), 2026-07-16T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Jackson, Jonathan L. [D-IL-1] (D-IL), 2026-07-16T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Foushee, Valerie P. [D-NC-4] (D-NC), 2026-07-16T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Waters, Maxine [D-CA-43] (D-CA), 2026-07-16T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Mullin, Kevin [D-CA-15] (D-CA), 2026-07-20T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Meng, Grace [D-NY-6] (D-NY), 2026-07-21T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Ansari, Yassamin [D-AZ-3] (D-AZ), 2026-07-22T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Bonamici, Suzanne [D-OR-1] (D-OR), 2026-08-03T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Carter, Troy A. [D-LA-2] (D-LA), 2026-09-02T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Chu, Judy [D-CA-28] (D-CA), 2026-09-10T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Blair, Everton [D-GA-13] (D-GA), 2026-09-14T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- Higher salary test for white-collar workers: benefit, high. If enacted, this bill would raise the minimum yearly salary needed to claim the executive, administrative, and professional overtime exemptions. The salary test would be $45,000 at the law's start, $55,000 on Jan 1, 2027, $65,000 on Jan 1, 2028, and $75,000 on Jan 1, 2029. Starting Jan 1, 2030, the…
- Narrower duties test for salaried workers: benefit, medium. If enacted, the bill would change the legal duties test employers use to claim white-collar exemptions. It would remove language about retail or service establishments, shorten and refocus which nonexempt activities count, and replace the phrase "less than 40" with "not less than 20." The bill woul…

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- 119-hr-7973: Momnibus Act
- 119-hr-51: Washington, D.C. Admission Act
- 119-hr-20: Richard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2025
- 119-hr-15: Equality Act
- 119-hr-1810: Safe Schools Improvement Act
- 119-hr-4611: EACH Act of 2025

## Sources
- [119-hr-8868 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/8868)

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- [119-hr-7973: Momnibus Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7973)
- [119-hr-51: Washington, D.C. Admission Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-51)
- [119-hr-20: Richard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-20)
- [119-hr-15: Equality Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-15)
- [119-hr-1810: Safe Schools Improvement Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-1810)
- [119-hr-4611: EACH Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-4611)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-8868 (as of 2026-10-24).