US Congress House Bill 548 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)
Status: Introduced on January 27 2015 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2015-03-24 - Subcommittee Hearings Held.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Certainty in Enforcement Act of 2015 Amends equal employment opportunity requirements under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to deem an employer's, labor organization's, employment agency's, or joint labor management committee's consideration or use of credit or criminal records or information, as mandated by federal, state, or local law, to be job related and consistent with business necessity. Declares that such use of credit or criminal records shall not be the basis of liability under any theory of disparate impact. (Currently, an unlawful employment practice based on disparate impact is established if a complaining party demonstrates that a respondent uses a particular employment practice that causes a disparate impact on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin and the respondent fails to demonstrate that the challenged practice is job related for the position in question and consistent with business necessity.)

Certainty in Enforcement Act of 2015

Rep. Tim Walberg [R-MI]	Rep. Todd Rokita [R-IN]	Rep. Richard Hudson [R-NC]	Rep. Duncan Hunter [R-CA]
Rep. David Trott [R-MI]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-03-24	House	Subcommittee Hearings Held.
2015-03-24	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
2015-01-27	House	Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
2015-01-27	House	Introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/548/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/hr548/BILLS-114hr548ih.pdf