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H.R. 2215: Justice for Wards Cove Workers Act

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H.R. 2215: Justice for Wards Cove Workers Act

113th Congress · introduced 2013-05-24 · Labor and Employment · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2013-05-24 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. McDermott, Jim [D-WA-7] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

What does this mean?

Official title

Justice for Wards Cove Workers Act

Plain summary

Justice for Wards Cove Workers Act - Amends the Civil Rights Act of 1991 to remove a provision excluding from application of the Act any disparate impact case filed before March 1, 1975, and decided after October 30, 1983. ( Wards Cove Packing Co. v. Atonio , 1989, held that, in cases brought under title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the burden is on the plaintiff to prove an employer had no business necessity for a practice with discriminatory effects.) Applies the amendments made by the Civil Rights Act of 1991 to a case that is subject to the removed provision in the same way such amendments apply to any other case brought under the employment discrimination provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

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Official text

Justice for Wards Cove Workers Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. McDermott, Jim [D-WA-7] · 4 cosponsors

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Judy Chu (D-CA)

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong113-hr2215 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong113 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong113