US Congress House Bill 6636 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-2)
Status: Introduced on April 28 2020 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2020-11-02 - Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 464.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Addresses sexual harassment and sexual assault involving personnel of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Specifically, the bill expands coverage of NOAA's sexual harassment prevention and response policy to include personnel such as observers and at-sea monitors, and voting members and executive and administrative staff of regional fishery management councils; directs NOAA to provide a mechanism for anonymous reports of sexual harassment to its Office of Inclusion and Civil Rights and sexual assault to its Workplace Violence Prevention and Response Program; requires NOAA to ensure that allegations of sexual assault and sexual harassment are investigated thoroughly and promptly; provides for a restricted reporting structure that allows survivors of sexual assault to receive services without triggering an investigative process; revises reporting requirements on sexual harassment, sexual assault, and equal opportunity employment; and removes the requirements that acts of assault, resistance, opposition, intimidation, sexual harassment, bribery, or interference with a fishery observer be forcible in nature and occur on a vessel to be unlawful.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Sexual Harassment and Assault Prevention Improvements Act of 2020

Rep. Suzanne Bonamici [D-OR]	Rep. Don Young [R-AK]	Rep. Jared Huffman [D-CA]	Rep. Jenniffer Gonzalez-Colon [R-PR]
Rep. Joseph Neguse [D-CO]	Rep. Ed Case [D-HI]	Rep. Debbie Dingell [D-MI]	Rep. TJ Cox [D-CA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-11-02	House	Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 464.
2020-11-02	House	Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 116-566.
2020-07-29	House	Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.
2020-07-29	House	Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
2020-07-29	House	Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife Discharged.
2020-05-04	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife.
2020-04-28	House	Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
2020-04-28	House	Introduced in House

SB2782 (Related) 2020-08-13 - Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 520.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/6636/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/hr6636/BILLS-116hr6636ih.pdf
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/hr6636/BILLS-116hr6636rh.pdf