102nd Congress / Bills / S 1745

Title

A bill to amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to strengthen and improve Federal civil rights laws, to provide for damages in cases of intentional employment discrimination, to clarify provisions regarding disparate impact actions, and for other purposes.

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Categories (What are categories?)

Actions and defenses | Age discrimination | Americans employed in foreign countries | Awards, medals, prizes | Civil procedure | Civil rights | Civil rights legislation -- Legislative histories | Civil war -- U.S. | Congressional agencies | Congressional employees | Contracts | Damages | Discrimination in employment | Drug abuse | Drugs and employment | Employee rights | Employee training | Employment tests | Equality before the law | Evidence (Law) | Federal advisory bodies | Federal employees | Foreign corporations | Handicapped | Historic sites | House of Representatives | House rules and procedure | Information services | Injunctions | Interest | Judicial review | Juries | Legal fees | Legislation | Legislative histories | Limitation of actions | Local officials and employees | Mediation | Minority employment | Minority executives | Parties to actions | Presidential appointments | Punitive damages | Racial discrimination | Religious liberty | Reverse discrimination in employment | Senate | Senate rules and procedure | Seniority in employment | Separation of powers | Sex discrimination in employment | State officials and employees | Supreme Court decisions | Test bias | Women executives | Women in business

Votes on this bill

Date	Chamber	Result	Vote
11/7/91	House	Passed	Session 1, roll call 386: On Passage Civil Rights Act of 1991
10/30/91	Senate	Passed	Session 1, roll call 238: On Passage of the Bill S. 1745; Civil Rights Act of 1991
10/30/91	Senate	Agreed to	Session 1, roll call 237: On the Motion to Table Motion To Table Nickles Amendment No. 1291; To allow employees of the United States Senate to have access to jury trials and punitive damages on the same basis as such rights and remedies are available to employees in the private sector.
10/30/91	Senate	Failed	Session 1, roll call 236: On the Motion to Table Motion To Table Rudman Amdt. No. 1290; To require the President or a Member of the Senate to reimburse the appropriate Federal account for any payment made on their behalf out of such account for an unfair employment practice judgment committed under the provisions of this title by the President or Member of the Senate not later than 60 days after the payment is made.
10/29/91	Senate	Agreed to	Session 1, roll call 234: On the Motion to Table Motion To Table Nickles Amendment No. 1284; To repeal exemptions from civil rights and labor and other laws for Congress and certain employees of the executive.
10/29/91	Senate	Agreed to	Session 1, roll call 233: On the Motion to Table Motion To Table McConnell Amendment No. 1282; To provide for a limit on attorney contingency fees, disclosure and estimate of such fees, a private right of action, and hourly rate right under the provisions of the Act.
10/29/91	Senate	Agreed to	Session 1, roll call 232: On the Amendment Dole Amendment No. 1278; To secure the right of women to be free of sexual assault and violence.