[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5127 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5127

 To amend title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to establish that 
  English-only rules cause an adverse and disparate effect on certain 
                employees and applicants for employment.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 28, 1994

Mr. Underwood introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                         Committee on Education

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to establish that 
  English-only rules cause an adverse and disparate effect on certain 
                employees and applicants for employment.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 703 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. 2000e-2) is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(o) For purposes of this title, an employment practice that 
requires an employee or an applicant for employment to speak only in 
English shall be presumed to be an employment practice that causes an 
adverse and disparate effect on such employee or such applicant.''.
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