I 
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2095 
To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to prohibit discrimination 
in the payment of wages on account of sex, race, or national origin, 
and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 14, 2017 
Ms. NORTON (for herself, Mr. POCAN, Mr. RYAN of Ohio, Mrs. DAVIS of Cali-
fornia, and Mr. PALLONE) introduced the following bill; which was re-
ferred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce 
A BILL 
To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to prohibit 
discrimination in the payment of wages on account of 
sex, race, or national origin, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘Fair Pay Act of 2017’’. 
(b) REFERENCE.—Except as provided in section 8, 
whenever in this Act an amendment or repeal is expressed 
in terms of an amendment to, or repeal of, a section or 
other provision, the reference shall be considered to be 
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made to a section or other provision of the Fair Labor 
Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 201 et seq.). 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) Wage rate differentials exist between equiv-
alent jobs segregated by sex, race, and national ori-
gin in Government employment and in industries en-
gaged in commerce or in the production of goods for 
commerce. 
(2) Discrimination in hiring and promotion has 
played a role in maintaining a segregated work 
force. 
(3) Many women and people of color work in 
occupations dominated by individuals of their same 
sex, race, and national origin. 
(A) While a wage rate differential exists in 
nearly every occupational field, traditionally 
male jobs tend to pay better than traditionally 
female jobs which require equal skill, effort, and 
responsibility, and which are performed under 
similar working conditions. 
(B) Traditionally male jobs that are low- 
wage require less skill, education, and certifi-
cations than traditionally female jobs that are 
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low-wage, despite their generally receiving high-
er pay. 
(4) In 2015, a woman in the United States 
working in a full-time, year-round job earned 80 
cents for every dollar earned by a man working in 
a full-time, year-round job. 
(A) The wage gap is larger when the data 
is disaggregated by race. Among women who 
hold full-time, year-round jobs in the United 
States, African-American women were paid on 
average, only 63 percent of what White men 
were paid in 2015, while Native Hawaiian and 
Other Pacific Islander women were paid 60 per-
cent, American Indian and Alaska Native 
women were paid 58 percent, and Hispanic and 
Latina women were paid only 54 percent. 
(B) The gender pay gap persists across 
educational levels. As a result, women who com-
plete college degrees are less able to pay off 
their student loans promptly, leaving them pay-
ing more and for a longer time than men. In 
2012, among students who graduated in 2007– 
2008, women working full time had paid off 33 
percent of their student loan debt on average, 
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