Enhancing Economic Security for America's Working Families Act
Latest action · Jan 22, 2001 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedJan 22, 2001
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2001 - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA) to increase the Federal minimum wage to: (1) $5.75 an hour beginning 30 days after enactment of this Act; (2) $6.25 an hour during the year beginning on January 1, 2002; and (3) $6.65 an hour beginning on January 1, 2003. Makes Federal minimum requirements applicable to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
Paycheck Fairness Act - Amends FLSA to revise remedies for and enforcement of prohibitions against sex discrimination in the payment of wages (such FLSA provisions are also known as the Equal Pay Act) to: (1) add nonretaliation requirements; (2) increase penalties; and (3) authorize the Secretary of Labor to seek additional compensatory or punitive damages. Requires the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs to train EEOC employees and affected individuals and entities on matters involving wage discrimination. Directs the Secretary to provide for certain studies, information, national summit, and guidelines, awards, and assistance for employer evaluations of job categories based on objective criteria. Establishes the Alexis Herman National Award for Pay Equity in the Workplace. Amends the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to require the EEOC to collect certain pay information.
Directs the Secretary to carry out demonstration programs or projects to provide technical skills training for workers, including both employed and unemployed workers, through grants to local or regional public-private partnerships.
FamilyCare Act of 2001 - Renames the State Children's Health Insurance program (SCHIP) under title XXI of the Social Security Act (SSA) as the FamilyCare program to provide for: (1) FamilyCare coverage of parents under Medicaid (SSA title XIX) as well as new SSA title XXI; (2) optional FamilyCare coverage of parents of targeted low-income children; (3) automatic eligibility for FamilyCare coverage of children born to a parent on FamilyCare assistance; (4) optional coverage of legal immigrants and of children through age 20 under both Medicaid and FamilyCare; (5) application of simplified FamilyCare procedures under Medicaid; (6) increased welfare-to-work transition under FamilyCare; (7) elimination of the 100 hour rule (eligibility requirement that a dependent child be deprived of parental support or care by reason of the parent's death, incapacity, unemployment, or continued absence from home) and other SSA title IV part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) related eligibility restrictions under FamilyCare; (8) limitations on specified conflicts of interests under SSA titles XIX and XXI; (9) increased FamilyCare allotment for FY 2002 through 2004; (10) authority to pay Medicaid expansion costs from the FamilyCare appropriation; and (11) appropriations. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award demonstration grants to a limited number of States to conduct innovative programs designed to improve outreach to homeless individuals and families under specified programs. Makes appropriations.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code with respect to the earned income credit to: (1) increase it for an eligible individual with two or more children; (2) revise definitions of earned income and child dependent credit; and (3) modify joint return requirements and rules where there are two or more eligible individuals.
Amends the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 to restore eligibility for food stamp benefits for legal immigrants and their families.
Cosponsors 21
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jan 22, 2001 to Feb 13, 2001; 19 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-MD | Barbara A. Mikulski | Original | Jan 22, 2001 |
| D-CA | Barbara Boxer | Original | Jan 22, 2001 |
| D-NY | Charles E. Schumer | Original | Jan 22, 2001 |
| D-CT | Christopher J. Dodd | Original | Jan 22, 2001 |
| D-HI | Daniel K. Akaka | Original | Jan 22, 2001 |
| D-MA | Edward M. Kennedy | Original | Jan 22, 2001 |
| D-NY | Hillary Rodham Clinton | Original | Jan 22, 2001 |
| D-LA | John B. Breaux | Original | Jan 22, 2001 |
| D-WV | John D. Rockefeller IV | Original | Jan 22, 2001 |
| D-MA | John F. Kerry | Original | Jan 22, 2001 |
| D-NJ | Jon S. Corzine | Original | Jan 22, 2001 |
| I-CT | Joseph I. Lieberman | Original | Jan 22, 2001 |
| D-MN | Mark Dayton | Original | Jan 22, 2001 |
| D-VT | Patrick J. Leahy | Original | Jan 22, 2001 |
| D-WA | Patty Murray | Original | Jan 22, 2001 |
| D-MN | Paul D. Wellstone | Original | Jan 22, 2001 |
| D-IL | Richard J. Durbin | Original | Jan 22, 2001 |
| D-OR | Ron Wyden | Original | Jan 22, 2001 |
| D-SD | Tim Johnson | Original | Jan 22, 2001 |
| D-MI | Carl Levin | Feb 13, 2001 | |
| D-MD | Paul S. Sarbanes | Feb 13, 2001 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| Senate | Finance Committee | Referred Jan 22, 2001 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jan 22, 2001Introduced in Senate
- Jan 22, 2001Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Printed hearings 1
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
| Number | Hearing | Committee | Held |
|---|---|---|---|
| S. Hrg. 107-1004 | NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2003: REVIEW OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION MANDATES211 pages | Environment and Public Works Committee | Jul 9, 2002 |
Titles 6
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A bill to improve the economic security of workers, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Enhancing Economic Security for America's Working Families Act
- Short Titles as Introduced for portions of this bill
- Paycheck Fairness Act
- Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2001
- FamilyCare Act of 2001
- Popular Titles
- Minimum Wage Increase bill
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Economics and Public Finance.
- Access to health care
- Administrative procedure
- Agriculture and Food
- Aid to dependent children
- Aliens
- Awards, medals, prizes
- Block grants
- Cash welfare block grants
- Child health
- Civil actions and liability
- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
- Civil rights enforcement
- Class actions (Civil procedure)
- Commemorations
- Commerce
- Community organization
- Competition
- Consumer education
- Cooperative societies
- Custody of children
- Damages
- Debarment of government contractors
- Department of Labor
- Discrimination in employment
- Dismissal of employees
- Divorce
- Drug abuse
- Drug abuse treatment
- Earned income tax credit
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Elementary and secondary education
- Employee training
- Employers' liability
- Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
- Equal pay for equal work
- Families
- Federal aid to child health services
- Federal aid to substance abuse programs
- Federal employees
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Food stamps
- Foster home care
- Government and business
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government publicity
- Governmental investigations
- Grants-in-aid
- Health
- Health insurance
- Health planning
- Higher education
- Homeless
- Housing and Community Development
- Immigrant health
- Immigrants
- Immigration
- Income
- Income tax
- Insurance premiums
- Labor and Employment
- Labor unions
- Law
- Licenses
- Marketing
- Married people
- Maternal health services
- Medicaid
- Medically uninsured
- Minimum wages
- Northern Mariana Islands
- Parents
- Pay equity
- Personal income tax
- Poor children
- Position classification
- Pregnant women
- Professional associations
- Public-private partnerships
- Punitive damages
- Recruiting of employees
- Refugees
- Reinsurance
- Right of asylum
- Salaries
- School lunch program
- Separation (Law)
- Sex discrimination in employment
- Small business
- Social Welfare
- Subsidies
- Tax deductions
- Tax exemption
- Tax returns
- Taxation
- Unemployed
- Urban affairs
- Wage surveys
- Wages
- Welfare eligibility
- Welfare-to-work
- Whistle blowing
- Witnesses
- Women
- Women's employment
- Youth
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jan 22, 2001Introduced in Senate
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
