United States · Bill · HR
H.R. 17159 (93rd)
A bill to allow the distribution in interstate commerce of goods produced by prison inmates who are paid not less than the prevailing minimum wages as determined for purposes of the Walsh-Healy Act.
Introduced
8 October 1974
Last action
—
Status
Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
Sponsors
—
Subjects
Discovery layer
Source updated
21 July 2025
Summary
Permits the distribution in interstate commerce of goods produced by convicts or prisoners within the United States if such inmates were paid not less than the prevailing minimum wages for persons employed in similar work in the same locality.
This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.
Timeline
No timeline events have been ingested for this record yet.
Votes
No vote records are attached yet.
Versions
No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.
Documents
1 official file
Introduced in House
summary · EN · 8 October 1974
Sponsors
No sponsors or actors listed by the source.
Related records
No cross-record relationships stored yet.
Sources
PoliticalRepo is an index and interpretation layer, not the authoritative legal source.
- Official source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/93rd-congress/house-bill/17159
- Open data entity: https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/93/hr/17159