[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4487 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4487

  To amend the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to define good cause to include 
    demonstrating facts sufficient to show victimization by sexual 
 harassment in violation of title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 
   for the purpose of determining whether voluntarily quitting a job 
 results in a failure to satisfy the work requirement applicable under 
                   section 6(d)(1)(A)(v) of such Act.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             August 6, 1998

 Mrs. Mink of Hawaii introduced the following bill; which was referred 
                    to the Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to define good cause to include 
    demonstrating facts sufficient to show victimization by sexual 
 harassment in violation of title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 
   for the purpose of determining whether voluntarily quitting a job 
 results in a failure to satisfy the work requirement applicable under 
                   section 6(d)(1)(A)(v) of such Act.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 6(d)(1)(D)(i) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 
2015(d)(1)(D)(i)) is amended by inserting before the period at the end 
the following: ``, except that for purposes of subparagraph (A)(v)(I), 
good cause shall include demonstrating facts sufficient to establish a 
prima facie case that the individual involved was victimized by sexual 
harassment in violation of title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964''.
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