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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.
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
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 unemploy-
ment compensation, be treated as having left such em-
ployment for good cause.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SEXUAL HARASSMENT OR LOSS OF CHILD
CARE AS GOOD CAUSE FOR LEAVING EM-
PLOYMENT.
(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 redesig-
nating paragraph (19) as paragraph (21), and by insert-
ing after paragraph (18) the following new paragraphs:
‘‘(19)(A) if any individual leaves employment
because of sexual harassment, for purposes of deter-
mining such individual’s eligibility for compensation
for any subsequent week for which such individual
meets the State law requirements relating to avail-
ability for work and active search for work, such in-
dividual shall be treated as having left such employ-
ment 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 estab-
lish 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 be-
cause of loss of adequate child care for a dependent
child under the age of 12, for purposes of deter-
mining such individual’s eligibility for compensation
for any subsequent week for which such individual
meets the State law requirements relating to avail-
ability 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 employ-
ment or to otherwise meet such State law re-
quirements, while the lack of such child care
continues, shall be disregarded; and’’.
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided by para-
graph (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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