Firearms Owners Against Crime
Institute for Legal, Legislative and Educational Action
Institute for Legal, Legislative and Educational Action
Title: Fair Chance Act Fair Chance to Compete for Jobs Act of 2015
Subject: Administrative law and regulatory procedures: Administrative remedies: Congressional oversight: Correctional facilities and imprisonment: Criminal justice information and records: Department of Defense: Employee hiring: Employee performance: Employment discrimination and employee rights: Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management: Government studies and investigations: Military procurement, research, weapons development: Office of Management and Budget (OMB): Office of Personnel Management (OPM): Public contracts and procurement: Government operations and politics
Description: Fair Chance Act Fair Chance to Compete for Jobs Act of 2015 This bill prohibits federal agencies and federal contractors from requesting that applicants for employment disclose criminal history record information before receiving a conditional offer (an offer of employment conditioned upon the results of a criminal history inquiry). The bill sets forth positions to which such prohibition shall not apply, such as positions for which prior consideration of criminal history record information is otherwise required by law, positions with law enforcement and national security duties, and positions requiring access to classified information. The bill prohibits agencies from requiring an individual or sole proprietor who submits a bid for a contract to disclose criminal history record information regarding that individual or sole proprietor before determining the apparent awardee. The Director of the Office of Personnel Management, the Board of Directors of the Office of Compliance, the Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, the Administrator of General Services, and the Secretary of Defense must: (1) establish procedures for submitting complaints about, and taking adverse actions against, agency employees and contractors for violating such prohibitions and for appealing such an adverse action; and (2) issue regulations to implement this Act. The Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council shall revise the Federal Acquisition Regulation to implement the requirements of this Act. The Department of Labor, in coordination with the Bureau of the Census and the Bureau of Justice Statistics, must study and report every five years on the employment of individuals who are released from federal prison after completing a term of imprisonment for a federal criminal offense.
Session: 114th Congress
Last Action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
Last Action Date: March 23, 2016
Link: https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/3470/all-info
Companion Bill: SB2021
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27 sponsors: Elijah Cummings (D); Darrell Issa (R); Sheila Jackson-Lee (D); Earl Blumenauer (D); Bonnie Coleman (D); Cedric Richmond (D); John Conyers (D); Robert Scott (D); Robert Dold (R); Eleanor Norton (D); Donna Edwards (D); Patrick Murphy (D); Adam Smith (D); Chris Van Hollen (D); Tammy Duckworth (D); Michael Honda (D); Steve Cohen (D); Zoe Lofgren (D); Sean Maloney (D); Hakeem Jeffries (D); Donald Payne (D); Barbara Lee (D); Raul Grijalva (D); Marcia Fudge (D); Lucille Roybal-Allard (D); Jerry McNerney (D); Bill Foster (D)
| Chamber | Date | Action |
| House | Mar 23 2016 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections. |
| House | Nov 23 2015 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness. |
| House | Sep 28 2015 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations. |
| House | Sep 10 2015 | Referred to House Administration |
| House | Sep 10 2015 | Referred to House Judiciary |
| House | Sep 10 2015 | Introduced in House |
| House | Sep 10 2015 | Referred to House Education and the Workforce |
| House | Sep 10 2015 | Referred to House Armed Services |
| House | Sep 10 2015 | Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on House Administration, the Judiciary, Armed Services, and Education and the Workforce, 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. |
| House | Sep 10 2015 | Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform |
| Type | Date | Federal Link | Text |
| Introduced | Sep 15 2015 | federal bill text | bill text |
| Title | Description | Date | State Link | Text | Adopted |
| There are no amendments to this bill at this time | |||||
Chamber: H
Committee Name: Subcommittee on Workforce Protections
There have not been any votes on this bill