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S. 1512: Pregnant Workers Fairness Act

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S. 1512: Pregnant Workers Fairness Act

114th Congress · introduced 2015-06-04 · Labor and Employment · Latest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2015-06-04 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. 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.

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Official title

Pregnant Workers Fairness Act

Plain summary

Pregnant Workers Fairness Act Declares that it is an unlawful employment practice for employers, employment agencies, labor organizations, and other specified entities to: (1) fail to make reasonable accommodations to known limitations related to the pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions of job applicants or employees, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on such an entity's business operation; (2) deny employment opportunities based on the need of the entity to make such reasonable accommodations; (3) require such job applicants or employees to accept an accommodation that they choose not to accept, if such accommodation is unnecessary to perform the job; (4) require such employees to take paid or unpaid leave if another reasonable accommodation can be provided to their known limitations; or (5) take adverse action in terms, conditions, or privileges of employment against an employee requesting or using such reasonable accommodations. Sets forth enforcement procedures and remedies under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995, the Government Employee Rights Act of 1991, and the rights and protections extended to presidential offices. Directs the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to issue regulations to carry out this Act, including the identification of reasonable accommodations addressing known limitations related to pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions. Prohibits state immunity under the Eleventh Amendment to the Constitution from an action for a violation of this Act.

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Official text

Pregnant Workers Fairness Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA] · 31 cosponsors

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Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Kirsten E. Gillibrand (D-NY), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Tim Kaine (D-VA), Edward J. Markey (D-MA), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Christopher A. Coons (D-DE), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Bernard Sanders (I-VT), Jack Reed (D-RI), Angus S. King, Jr. (I-ME), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Patty Murray (D-WA), Richard J. Durbin (D-IL), Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Gary C. Peters (D-MI), Charles E. Schumer (D-NY), Ron Wyden (D-OR), Michael F. Bennet (D-CO)

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Rulemaking
The process agencies use to write regulations that carry out laws passed by Congress or a legislature. Usually an agency publishes a proposed rule, takes public comments, then publishes a final rule.

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong114-s1512 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong114 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong114