Security and Financial Empowerment Act

Bill: 109-hr-3185
Sponsor: Rep. Roybal-Allard, Lucille [D-CA-34]
Introduced: 2005-06-30 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Aid to dependent children
Assault
Business records
Cash welfare block grants
Casualty insurance
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil actions and liability
Collection of accounts
Collective bargaining
Commerce
Conferences
Confidential communications
Consumer protection
Cost accounting
Counseling
Crime and Law Enforcement
Crimes against women
Damages
Department of Labor
Destruction of property
Discrimination
Discrimination in employment
Discrimination in insurance
Dismissal of employees
Economics and Public Finance
Employee health benefits
Employee rights
Employee training
Employers' liability
Evidence (Law)
Families
Family leave
Family violence
Federal Trade Commission
Federal preemption
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Grants-in-aid
Grievance procedures
Health
Health insurance
Hours of labor
Housing and Community Development
Independent regulatory commissions
Information services
Injunctions
Insurance agents
Insurance companies
Insurance premiums
Kidnapping
Labor contracts
Labor unions
Law
Leave of absence
Legal aid
Legal fees
Legal services
Life insurance
Limitation of actions
Local laws
Medical economics
Mental health services
Nonprofit organizations
Occupational health and safety
Property insurance
Psychotherapy
Punitive damages
Rape
Relocation
Restrictive trade practices
Right of privacy
Sex crimes
Sick leave
Social Welfare
Stalking
State laws
Transfer of employees
Unemployment insurance
Victims of crimes
Violence
Welfare eligibility
Whistle blowing
Wife abuse
Women
Women's rights
Women's shelters

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: 
Security and Financial Empowerment Act - Sets forth entitlement standards and implementation guidelines for employee use of emergency leave to address domestic or sexual violence. Permits victims of domestic or sexual violence to substitute existing leave in lieu of emergency leave. 
 
Authorizes state use of funds under part A of title IV of the Social Security Act (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) to provide nonrecurrent short-term emergency benefits for emergency leave precipitated by domestic or sexual violence . 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code relating to approval of state unemployment compensation laws to prohibit denial of compensation where an individual is separated from employment due to circumstances resulting from the individual's experience of domestic or sexual violence. 
Amends the Social Security Act to include training under this Act for unemployment compensation personnel. 
Victims' Employment Sustainability Act - Prohibits certain discriminatory employer practices relating to terms or conditions of employment in connection with victims of domestic or sexual violence. 
Victims of Abuse Insurance Protection Act - Prohibits denial or restriction of insurance coverage based on the status of the applicant or insured regarding abuse or abuse-related claims. 
Authorizes the Attorney General to provide a grant for a clearinghouse and resource center to provide information and assistance to employers, labor organizations, and advocates on behalf of victims of domestic or sexual violence.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-08-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance and Government Sponsored Enterprises.
action_date: 2005-08-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2005-08-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Introduced in House