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HB 561: Employment Discrimination Against the Unemployed

GENERAL BILL by Stafford

Employment Discrimination Against the Unemployed; Creates "Fair Employment Opportunity Act"; prohibits employer from refusing to consider or offer employment because person is or was unemployed; prohibits advertisement or announcement which states or indicates that unemployed person is disqualified; prohibits employer from directing or requesting employment agency to take person's status as unemployed into account; prohibits employment agency from refusing to consider or refer person based on person's status as unemployed; prohibits employment agency advertisement or announcement for job vacancy which states or indicates that unemployed person is disqualified; prohibits employment agency from limiting person's access to information about jobs or referral because person is or was unemployed; prohibits employer or agency from discriminating against person because person engaged in certain lawful activities; provides exception; authorizes civil action by AG; provides that damages recovered accrue to injured party.

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• Bill History

  Date	Chamber	Action
  1/29/2013	House	• Filed
  2/6/2013	House	• Referred to Economic Development and Tourism Subcommittee; Civil Justice Subcommittee; Economic Affairs Committee -HJ 62
  3/5/2013	House	• Introduced -HJ 62
  5/3/2013	House	• Died in Economic Development and Tourism Subcommittee

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• HB 561, Original Filed Version (Current Bill Version) Posted 1/29/2013 at 7:33 AM

  Bill Text:	PDF

  Analyses:	None

  Related Bills (1)

  Bill Number	Subject	Filed By	Relationship	Last Action and Location	Track Bills
  S 72	Employment Discrimination Against the Unemployed	Joyner	Identical	Last Action: 5/3/2013 S Died in Commerce and Tourism Location: In committee/council (CM)

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