§ 256. Determination of commencement of future actions

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Legislative history

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1. 1947

   Portal-to-Portal Act of 1947

   Pub. L. 80–52 § 7 · 61 Stat. 84

   Enacted · 29 U.S.C. § 256

   (May 14, 1947, ch. 52, § 7, 61 Stat. 88.)

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   (May 14, 1947, ch. 52, § 7, 61 Stat. 88.)

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 7. Determination of Commencement of Future Actions.— In determining when an action is commenced for the purposes of section 6, an action commenced on or after the date of the enactment of this Act under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended, Supra. the Walsh-Healey Act, or the Bacon-Davis Act, shall be considered to be commenced on the date when the complaint is filed; except that in the case of a collective or class action instituted under the Fair Labor 52 Stat. 1060; 49 Stat. 2036, 1011. 29 U. S. C. §§ 201–219; 40 U. S. C. §§ 276a–276a–5. Ante, p. 87; post, p. 454. Standards Act of 1938, as amended, or the Bacon-Davis Act, it shall be considered to be commenced in the case of any individual claimant— (a) on the date when the complaint is filed, if he is specifically named as a party plaintiff in the complaint and his written consent to become a party plaintiff is filed on such date in the court in which the action is brought; or (b) if such written consent was not so filed or if his name did not so appear—on the subsequent date on which such written consent is filed in the court in which the action was commenced.

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