[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 49 (Tuesday, March 24, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S1795]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 362. Ms. MIKULSKI (for herself, Mr. Wyden, Ms. Stabenow, Ms. 
Warren, and Mr. Udall) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by her to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 11, setting forth the 
congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 
2016 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal 
years 2017 through 2025; as follows:

       At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. ___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO EQUAL PAY 
                   FOR EQUAL WORK.

       The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate 
     may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, 
     aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution 
     for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, 
     amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports 
     relating to efforts to ensure equal pay policies and 
     practices and to reform section 6(d) of the Fair Labor 
     Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 206(d)) (commonly known as 
     the ``Equal Pay Act of 1963'') to allow for punitive damages, 
     limit the exception for unequal pay described in paragraph 
     (1) of such section to business necessity rather than any 
     factor ``other than sex'', and prevent retaliation against 
     employees for sharing salary information by the amounts 
     provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided 
     that such legislation would not increase the deficit over 
     either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 
     2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 
     2025.
                                 ______