US Congress Senate Bill 4374 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)
Status: Introduced on July 30 2020 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-07-30 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Pending: Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Requires federal agencies to develop plans to increase diversity in the workforce. Specifically, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) must develop a plan to increase diversity in executive agencies that includes specified information, including strategies for agencies to remove barriers to equal employment opportunities. Each executive agency must develop an agency-specific plan to increase diversity, pursuant to OPM guidance, and annually publish specified data. The legislative and judicial branches of government must also implement these requirements to the greatest extent possible. Additionally, each executive agency, and each prime contractor that is under contract with an executive agency, must annually report information relating to economically and socially disadvantaged businesses.

Federal Jobs Act

Sen. Robert Menendez [D-NJ]	Sen. Dianne Feinstein [D-CA]	Sen. Bernard Sanders [I-VT]	Sen. Sherrod Brown [D-OH]
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto [D-NV]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-07-30	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

HB6240 (Related) 2020-03-12 - Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and in addition to the Committees on House Administration, and 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.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/4374/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/s4374/BILLS-116s4374is.pdf