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                                    MARCH 14, 2019
                                    
                               RULES COMMITTEE PRINT 116-8
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                            TEXT OF H.R. 7, PAYCHECK FAIRNESS ACT
                            
                   [Showing the text of H.R. 7 as ordered reported by the
                            Committee on Education and Labor]
                            
                            
			1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
			
			2   This Act may be cited as the ï¿½ï¿½Paycheck Fairness
			
			3 Actï¿½ï¿½.
			
			4 SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
			
			5   Congress finds the following:
			
			6     (1) Women have entered the workforce in
			
			7    record numbers over the past 50 years.
			
			8     (2) Despite the enactment of the Equal Pay Act
			
			9    of 1963, many women continue to earn significantly
			
			10   lower pay than men for equal work. These pay dis11
			
			     parities exist in both the private and governmental
			
			12 sectors.
			
			13    (3) In many instances, the pay disparities can
			
			14   only be due to continued intentional discrimination
			
			15   or the lingering effects of past discrimination. After
			
			16   controlling for educational attainment, occupation,
			
			17   industry, union status, race, ethnicity, and labor
			
			18   force experience roughly 40 percent of the pay gap
			
			19   remains unexplained.

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