How these pages are built

Source capture

1. Primary sources only: Texas statutes / enrolled bills, eCFR, and named regulator FAQs when labelled as readings.
2. Where possible, text is sliced from a fetch file and re-checked with quote-verification scripts — not hand-typed from memory.
3. Each stored section keeps url, last_verified, and optional effective_from.

Presentation rules

• Every calculator output block carries citations with links and verification dates.
• Regulator FAQ language is labelled “Regulator reading — not statutory text.”
• Pages state what the text does not cover when a common question has no answer in the statute.
• No page asserts a lawful / unlawful verdict about the reader’s facts.

Worked example: a citation that does not say what it is cited for

State-by-state tables about nurse mandatory overtime circulate widely online. One such table lists Ohio as having recently restricted mandatory overtime for nurses, and cites “Ohio 2022 (SB 47)” as the authority. The bill is real. Reading it at the official source shows why the citation does not carry the claim — and this is exactly the failure the rules above exist to prevent.

The Ohio General Assembly page for 134/SB47 publishes a short title and a long title:

Excepts certain tasks from overtime pay requirements

To amend sections 4111.03 and 4111.10 and to enact section 4111.031 of the Revised Code to except traveling to and from a worksite and performing certain routine tasks from the overtime pay requirement and to prohibit opt-out class actions for overtime violations.

That page lists the subject as Employment and the effective date as July 6, 2022. The enacted provision is Ohio Revised Code § 4111.031.

• What the text addresses: which hours count toward overtime pay — traveling to and from the worksite, activities preliminary or postliminary to the principal activity, and activities taking insubstantial or insignificant time beyond scheduled hours.
• What the text does not address: whether a nurse may be required to work beyond a scheduled shift. Nothing in the bill speaks to assignment of mandatory overtime.
• A second provision pointing the other way: R.C. 4111.10(C), enacted by the same bill, requires a plaintiff to file written consent to join a collective action for unpaid overtime, replacing the opt-out class action.

Two independent readings of that second provision, neither of them published by this site:

…this change in procedure shifts the leverage substantially in employers’ favor.

— Lexology, Ohio Overtime Law Will Look More Like the FLSA Starting in July 2022 (2022).

The bill generally exempts an employer from Ohio’s requirement to pay overtime wages when an employee is traveling to and from work or performing certain de minimis tasks…

— Ohio State Bar Association, 2022 Autumn Labor & Employment Legislative Update.

So a bill about overtime pay calculation and collective-action procedure was described to nurses as a protection against being required to work overtime. Those are different questions, and the description and the enacted text point in different directions.

What this site does with that. We do not publish a fifty-state table. We publish one jurisdiction at a time, quote the text from the official source, and print the last-verified date beside it. Where a common question has no answer in the text, the page says so instead of filling the gap. We do not name the publishers of tables we read differently — the links above let you check the claim yourself, which is the whole point.

For the number of states with mandatory-overtime restrictions, we use the figure a federal bill states in its own findings:

(4) 18 States have passed legislation or promulgated regulations restricting mandatory overtime for nurses.

— S. 5319, Nurse Overtime and Patient Safety Act, sec. 2, findings (as introduced, 119th Congress).

Automated gates

Before a build ships, the project runs a compliance gate over the real dist/ HTML, DOM smoke tests against each calculator, unit tests on the engines, and needle checks that shipped strings still match the data layer. A self-test injects violations to prove the gate still fails when it should.

Re-verification

Statutes change. Treat every last verified date as a snapshot, not a promise of perpetual currency. Re-check the official URL before relying on a page after material time has passed.