US Congress House Bill 4275 (Prior Session Legislation)

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September 26 2012 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Justice for Wards Cove Workers Act - Amends the Civil Rights Act of 1991 to remove a provision excluding from application of the Act any disparate impact case filed before March 1, 1975, and decided after October 30, 1983. (Wards Cove Packing Co. v. Atonio, 1989, held that, in cases brought under title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the burden is on the plaintiff to prove an employer had no business necessity for a practice with discriminatory effects.) Applies the amendments made by the Civil Rights Act of 1991 to a case that is subject to the removed provision in the same way such amendments apply to any other case brought under the employment discrimination provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Justice for Wards Cove Workers Act

Rep McDermott, Jim	Rep Chu, Judy	Rep Ellison, Keith	Rep Faleomavaega, Eni F.H.
Rep Lee, Barbara	Rep Rangel, Charles B.	Rep Richardson, Laura

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-09-26	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
2012-04-16	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.
2012-03-28	House	Referred to House Judiciary
2012-03-28	House	Referred to House Education and the Workforce
2012-03-28	House	Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
2012-03-28	House	Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E472)

Type	Source
Summary	http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:HN04275:@@@L&summ2=m&
Text	http://gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr4275ih/pdf/BILLS-112hr4275ih.pdf