[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 296 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 296

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 30, 1995

  Mr. Kennedy (for himself, Mr. Akaka, Mr. Bingaman, Mrs. Boxer, Mr. 
Bradley, Mr. Campbell, Mr. Dodd, Mr. Feingold, Mr. Harkin, Mr. Inouye, 
    Mr. Lautenberg, Mr. Leahy, Ms. Mikulski, Ms. Moseley-Braun, Mr. 
Moynihan, Mrs. Murray, Mr. Packwood, Mr. Pell, Mr. Robb, Mr. Simon, and 
Mr. Wellstone) 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 1995''.

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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