# H.R. 2270 (119th): Empowering Employer Child and Elder Care Solutions Act

Empowering Employer Child and Elder Care Solutions Act This bill excludes the value of employer-funded child or dependent care from being used in calculating an eligible employee's overtime pay. Under current law, overtime hours must be paid at one and a half times an employee's regular rate of pay. This rate is an average hourly rate that must include certain types of pay, such as commissions. The bill specifies that an employer can provide or pay for child or dependent care services without the value of the services being included in this calculation.

## How this bill is scored

Tier: no Tier 1 record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Lane: childcare. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: dependent_care. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: eldercare. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: family_policy. Category: children. Lane tag: command.
Lane: labor_policy. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: overtime_pay. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: procedural_motion. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Tier 1 sign-off: no record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Stored polarity: mixed. Only tags the rules mark scoreable on a mixed bill are scored. A yea can draw a penalty or a credit according to the tag. A nay on a tag scored as good can draw a penalty.
Roll 20: On Motion to Recommit. Vote type: recommit.
Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: The bill pursues an ordinary family-support and employer-benefit goal, namely encouraging employers to provide child and elder care without it counting against overtime calculations. It also carries a prudential concern about whether overtime protections are weakened for workers. No direct moral evil is advanced, and no clear defense of justice against a named wrong is present, so the classification is mixed.
Theological note: The measure touches family life and the care of children and dependents, which Scripture treats as weighty responsibilities. It also raises questions of fair wages and honest labor, since overtime rules protect workers from uncompensated extra hours. Its relevance to family integrity is real, but the measure is a labor-benefit adjustment rather than a direct advance or restraint of a named moral evil.

## Recorded votes

Roll 20: On Motion to Recommit. Yea 209 · Nay 213 · Other 9.

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