[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4522 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4522

 To amend the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995 to prohibit the 
use of public funds for the payment of a settlement or award under such 
Act in connection with a claim arising from sexual harassment committed 
                        by a Member of Congress.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            December 1, 2017

  Mrs. Love introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                   Committee on House Administration

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995 to prohibit the 
use of public funds for the payment of a settlement or award under such 
Act in connection with a claim arising from sexual harassment committed 
                        by a Member of Congress.

    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 ``Stop Taxpayers Obligations to 
Perpetrators of Sexual Harassment Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITING USE OF PUBLIC FUNDS FOR PAYMENT OF SETTLEMENTS AND 
              AWARDS UNDER CONGRESSIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY ACT IN SEXUAL 
              HARASSMENT CLAIMS INVOLVING MEMBERS OF CONGRESS.

    (a) Prohibition.--Section 415 of the Congressional Accountability 
Act of 1995 (2 U.S.C. 1415) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``subsection (c)'' and 
        inserting ``subsections (c) and (d)''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(d) No Use of Public Funds for Payments of Awards and Settlements 
in Connection With Acts of Sexual Harassment Committed by Members of 
Congress.--No funds of the Treasury of the United States may be used 
for the payment of an award or settlement under this Act in connection 
with a violation of section 201(a)(1) if the violation consists of an 
act of sexual harassment committed personally by a Member of the House 
of Representatives (including a Delegate or Resident Commissioner to 
the Congress) or a Senator.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
apply with respect to settlements and awards paid on or after the date 
of the enactment of this Act.
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