Firearms Owners Against Crime
Institute for Legal, Legislative and Educational Action
Institute for Legal, Legislative and Educational Action
Title: Security and Financial Empowerment Act of 2015
Subject: Assault and harassment offenses: Civil actions and liability: Congressional agencies: Congressional oversight: Crime prevention: Crime victims: Crimes against women: Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation: Domestic violence and child abuse: Employee benefits and pensions: Employee hiring: Employee leave: Employment discrimination and employee rights: Evidence and witnesses: Financial literacy: Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management: Government information and archives: Government studies and investigations: Health care costs and insurance: Health programs administration and funding: Health promotion and preventive care: Indian social and development programs: Insurance industry and regulation: Labor standards: Library of Congress: Life, casualty, property insurance: Poverty and welfare assistance: Sex offenses: Unemployment: Wages and earnings: Women's employment: Worker safety and health: Crime and law enforcement
Description: Security and Financial Empowerment Act of 2015 This bill amends the Violence Against Women Act to require the National Resource Center on Workplace Response provide information and assistance through domestic violence or sexual assault coalitions and survivor service organizations. These organizations and coalitions shall provide resource materials and assistance to employees, employers, and labor organizations to aid in efforts to develop adequate workplace responses to domestic and sexual violence. In addition, the bill requires employers to provide employees 30 days of leave per year, including 56 hours of earned paid leave, which can be used as a result of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking of an employee or an employee's family member. States may provide nonrecurring short-term emergency benefits to employees using such leave. Survivors' Employment Sustainability Act The Survivors' Employment Sustainability Act prohibits employers, public benefit agencies, and insurers from discriminating against survivors of: domestic violence, dating or sexual violence, sexual assault, or stalking. Under the Internal Revenue Code, employers must give unemployment compensation to survivors who are separated from work due to conditions related to the individuals being survivors. The bill amends title IV part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of the Social Security Act to require state agency personnel that administer TANF programs to be adequately trained to assist survivors seeking assistance. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) must study the barriers survivors encounter to maintain economic security. HHS may arrange financial literacy support for survivors. The Department of Labor must establish a public outreach campaign.
Session: 114th Congress
Last Action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Last Action Date: October 27, 2015
Link: https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/2208/all-info
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17 sponsors: Patty Murray (D); Tammy Baldwin (D); Richard Blumenthal (D); Sherrod Brown (D); Maria Cantwell (D); Al Franken (D); Kirsten Gillibrand (D); Amy Klobuchar (D); Patrick Leahy (D); Barbara Mikulski (D); Bernard Sanders (I); Mazie Hirono (D); Robert Casey (D); Gary Peters (D); Dianne Feinstein (D); Charles Schumer (D); Benjamin Cardin (D)
| Chamber | Date | Action |
| Senate | Oct 27 2015 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. |
| Type | Date | Federal Link | Text |
| Introduced | Nov 3 2015 | federal bill text | bill text |
| Title | Description | Date | State Link | Text | Adopted |
| There are no amendments to this bill at this time | |||||
Chamber: S
Committee Name: Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions
There have not been any votes on this bill