[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 17 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 17

To amend section 1977A of the Revised Statutes to equalize the remedies 
available to all victims of intentional employment discrimination, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             January 21 (legislative day, January 5), 1993

Mr. Kennedy (for himself, Mr. Durenberger, Mr. Packwood, Mr. Akaka, Mr. 
Bradley, Ms. Moseley-Braun, Mr. DeConcini, Mr. Feingold, Ms. Feinstein, 
 Mr. Inouye, Ms. Mikulski, Ms. Murray, Mr. Pell, Mr. Robb, Mr. Simon, 
Mr. Wellstone, Mr. Rockefeller, Mrs. Boxer, Mr. Bingaman, Mr. Wofford, 
   Mr. Leahy, Mr. Campbell, Mr. Biden, Mr. Dodd, Mr. Metzenbaum, Mr. 
  Lautenberg, Mr. Moynihan, Mr. Riegle, Mr. Mitchell, Mr. Cohen, Mr. 
Harkin, and Mr. Specter) introduced the following bill; which was read 
    twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend section 1977A of the Revised Statutes to equalize the remedies 
available to all victims of intentional employment discrimination, and 
                          for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Equal Remedies Act of 1993''.

SEC. 2. EQUALIZATION OF REMEDIES.

    Section 1977A of the Revised Statutes (42 U.S.C. 1981a), as added 
by section 102 of the Civil Rights Act of 1991, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b)--
                    (A) by striking paragraph (3), and
                    (B) by redesignating paragraph (4) as paragraph 
                (3), and
            (2) in subsection (c), by striking ``section--'' and all 
        that follows through the period and inserting ``section, any 
        party may demand a jury trial.''.

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