Bill Text: NH HB350 | 2013 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Prohibiting discrimination against the unemployed.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-11-25 - Minority Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate [HB350 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2013-HB350-Introduced.html
HB 350 – AS INTRODUCED
2013 SESSION
06/04
HOUSE BILL 350
AN ACT prohibiting discrimination against the unemployed.
SPONSORS: Rep. Copeland, Rock 19
COMMITTEE: Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services
This bill prohibits hiring discrimination by employers based upon an individual’s unemployment status.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
13-0466
06/04
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Thirteen
AN ACT prohibiting discrimination against the unemployed.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Sections; Protective Legislation; Unemployment Status. Amend RSA 275 by inserting after section 14 the following new sections:
275:14-a Unemployment Status.
I. In this section, “unemployment status” means being unemployed, having actively looked for employment during the most recent 4 week period, and currently being available for employment.
II. No employer shall refuse to hire or to employ such individual, or to bar such individual, or to discriminate against such individual in compensation or in terms, conditions, or privileges of employment.
III. No employer or employment agency shall discriminate against any individual because of unemployment status in receiving, classifying, disposing, or otherwise acting upon applications for its services or in referring an applicant to an employer.
IV. No employer or employment agency shall print or circulate or cause to be printed or circulated any statement, advertisement, or publication, or use any form of application for employment or make any inquiry in connection with prospective employment, which expresses directly or indirectly, any limitation, specification, or discrimination as to unemployment status, or any intent to make any such limitation, specification, or discrimination, unless based upon a bona fide occupational qualification.
275:14-b Penalty. Any employer or employment agency that violates RSA 275:14-a shall be subject to a fine not to exceed $5,000 for the first violation and $10,000 for each subsequent violation.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
