Fair Chance Act
Latest action · Apr 10, 2019 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 69.
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.
- IntroducedFeb 7, 2019
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Fair Chance to Compete for Jobs Act of 2019 or the Fair Chance Act
This bill prohibits federal agencies and federal contractors from requesting that applicants for employment disclose criminal history record information before receiving a conditional offer of employment.
Agencies may not require 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 bill (1) sets forth positions to which such prohibitions shall not apply; and (2) requires the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the General Services Administration (GSA), and the Department of Defense (DOD) to issue regulations identifying additional positions with respect to which the prohibition shall not apply.
The OPM, the Office of Congressional Workplace Rights, the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, the GSA, and DOD must (1) establish procedures for submitting complaints about, and taking actions against, agency employees and contractors for violating such prohibitions and for appealing such an action; and (2) issue regulations to implement this bill.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics, in coordination with the Bureau of the Census, must design and initiate a study on the employment of individuals who are released from federal prison after completing a term of imprisonment for a federal criminal offense.
Cosponsors 7
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 7, 2019 to Feb 12, 2019, with 5 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-IA | Joni Ernst | Original | Feb 7, 2019 |
| R-OH | Rob Portman | Original | Feb 7, 2019 |
| R-WI | Ron Johnson | Original | Feb 7, 2019 |
| D-OH | Sherrod Brown | Original | Feb 7, 2019 |
| D-WI | Tammy Baldwin | Original | Feb 7, 2019 |
| D-MI | Gary C. Peters | Feb 11, 2019 | |
| D-IL | Tammy Duckworth | Feb 12, 2019 |
Actions 5
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Apr 10, 2019Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Johnson with an amendment. With written report No. 116-33.
- Apr 10, 2019Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 69.
- Feb 13, 2019Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
- Feb 7, 2019Introduced in Senate
- Feb 7, 2019Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Related bills 5
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 697 | Next Step Act of 2019 | Related bill | Mar 7, 2019 |
| HR 1076 | Fair Chance Act | Related bill | Jan 24, 2020 |
| S 1790 | National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 | Related bill | Dec 20, 2019 |
| HR 1893 | Next Step Act of 2019 | Related bill | Apr 8, 2019 |
| HR 2500 | National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 | Related bill | Aug 11, 2020 |
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Government Operations and Politics.
- 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
- General Services Administration
- Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government studies and investigations
- Military procurement, research, weapons development
- Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
- Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
- Public contracts and procurement
Text 2
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Apr 10, 2019Reported to Senate
- Feb 7, 2019Introduced 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.
