[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 592 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 592

     To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that an 
 individual who leaves employment because of sexual harassment or loss 
   of child care will, for purposes of determining such individual's 
 eligibility for unemployment compensation, be treated as having left 
                    such employment for good cause.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 13, 2001

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

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                                 A BILL


 
     To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that an 
 individual who leaves employment because of sexual harassment or loss 
   of child care will, for purposes of determining such individual's 
 eligibility for unemployment compensation, be treated as having left 
                    such employment for good cause.

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

SECTION 1. SEXUAL HARASSMENT OR LOSS OF CHILD CARE AS GOOD CAUSE FOR 
              LEAVING EMPLOYMENT.

    (a) In General.--Subsection (a) of section 3304 of the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to approval of State unemployment 
compensation laws) is amended by striking ``and'' at the end of 
paragraph (18), by redesignating paragraph (19) as paragraph (21), and 
by inserting after paragraph (18) the following new paragraphs:
            ``(19)(A) if any individual leaves employment because of 
        sexual harassment, for purposes of determining such 
        individual's eligibility for compensation for any subsequent 
        week for which such individual meets the State law requirements 
        relating to availability for work and active search for work, 
        such individual shall be treated as having left such employment 
        for good cause, and
            ``(B) for purposes of subparagraph (A), `sexual harassment' 
        shall be considered to have been shown upon the demonstration 
        of 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;
            ``(20) if any individual leaves employment because of loss 
        of adequate child care for a dependent child under the age of 
        12, for purposes of determining such individual's eligibility 
        for compensation for any subsequent week for which such 
        individual meets the State law requirements relating to 
        availability for work and active search for work--
                    ``(A) such individual shall be treated as having 
                left such employment for good cause, and
                    ``(B) any failure to return to such employment or 
                to otherwise meet such State law requirements, while 
                the lack of such child care continues, shall be 
                disregarded; and''.
    (b) Effective Date.--
            (1) In general.--Except as provided by paragraph (2), the 
        amendment made by subsection (a) shall take effect on the 
        November 1st next occurring after the end of the 30-day period 
        beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act.
            (2) Exception.--In the case of any State the legislature of 
        which has not been in session for at least 30 calendar days 
        (whether or not successive) between the date of the enactment 
        of this Act and the effective date described in paragraph (1), 
        the amendment made by subsection (a) shall take effect 30 
        calendar days after the first day on which such legislature is 
        in session on or after the effective date described in 
        paragraph (1).
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