Yes. Over the years there has been bipartisan legislation introduced that would end the unfair taxation of recoveries in these cases by excluding non-economic damages received in employment cases from gross income. This legislation has gone by the names of the “Civil Rights Tax Relief Act” and the “Civil Rights Tax Fairness Act.” The most recent legislation, introduced in the 114th Congress by George Democrat John Lewis and Wisconsin Republican Jim Sensenbrenner, is called the Civil Justice Tax Fairness Act. Along with excluding non-economic damages, the CJTFA also attempts to counter the negative impact of receiving a multiple back pay and/or front pay award in a single year by providing incoming averaging for those recoveries. With income averaging, employees will pay taxes at the same amount they would have if they had received the income over several years of employment.