S. 3396
Introduced in Senate · December 31, 2025December 9, 2025
Mrs. Gillibrand (for herself, Mr. Luján, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. Fetterman, Mr. Kaine, Mr. Sanders, Ms. Duckworth, Ms. Warren, Mr. Merkley, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Markey, Ms. Klobuchar, Mr. Schiff, Ms. Baldwin, Mr. Padilla, Mr. Booker, and Mrs. Murray) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
A BILL
To enhance the rights of domestic employees, and for other purposes.
1. Short title; table of contents; 2. Findings; 3. Definitions; 4. Rulemaking authority; 5. Rule of construction; TITLE I—DOMESTIC EMPLOYEE RIGHTS AND PROTECTIONS; 101. Overtime protections for live-in domestic employees; 102. Live-in domestic employees termination notices and communications; 103. Enforcement; 110. Written agreements; 111. Earned sick days; 112. Fair scheduling practices; 113. Right to request and receive temporary changes to scheduled work hours due to personal events; 114. Privacy; 115. Breaks for meals and rest; 116. Unfair wage deductions for cash shortages, breakages, loss, or modes of communication; 117. Prohibited acts; 118. Enforcement authority; 119. Effect on existing employment benefits and other laws; 131. Including certain domestic employees in civil rights protections against discrimination in employment; TITLE II—STANDARDS BOARD AND BENEFITS; 201. Domestic Employee Standards Board; 202. Domestic employees’ benefits study; TITLE III—IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DOMESTIC WORKERS BILL OF RIGHTS; 301. Definitions; 302. Notice of domestic employee rights; 303. Interagency Task Force on Domestic Workers Bill of Rights Enforcement; 304. National Domestic Employee Hotline; 305. National grant for community-based education, outreach, and enforcement of domestic employee rights; 306. Encouraging the use of fiscal intermediaries; 307. Application to domestic employees who provide Medicaid-funded services; 308. Delayed enforcement for government-funded programs; TITLE IV—FUNDING; 401. Temporary increase in the Federal medical assistance percentage for Medicaid-funded services provided by domestic employees; 402. Authorization of appropriations; TITLE V—SEVERABILITY; 501. Severability