House Bill 6636
116th Congress(2019-2020)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Sexual Harassment and Assault Prevention Improvements Act of 2020
Introduced
Introduced in House on Apr 28, 2020
Origin Chamber
House
Type
Bill
Bill
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Bill Number
6636
Congress
116
Policy Area
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Primary focus of measure is natural areas (including wilderness); lands under government jurisdiction; land use practices and policies; parks, monuments, and historic sites; fisheries and marine resources; mining and minerals. Measures concerning energy supplies and production may fall under Energy policy area.
No House votes have been held for this bill.
Summary
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Sexual Harassment and Assault Prevention Improvements Act of 2020
This bill addresses sexual harassment and sexual assault involving personnel of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Specifically, the bill
- expands coverage of NOAA's sexual harassment prevention and response policy to include personnel such as observers and at-sea monitors, and voting members and executive and administrative staff of regional fishery management councils;
- directs NOAA to provide a mechanism for anonymous reports of sexual harassment to its Office of Inclusion and Civil Rights and sexual assault to its Workplace Violence Prevention and Response Program;
- requires NOAA to ensure that allegations of sexual assault and sexual harassment are investigated thoroughly and promptly;
- provides for a restricted reporting structure that allows survivors of sexual assault to receive services without triggering an investigative process;
- revises reporting requirements on sexual harassment, sexual assault, and equal opportunity employment; and
- removes the requirements that acts of assault, resistance, opposition, intimidation, sexual harassment, bribery, or interference with a fishery observer be forcible in nature and occur on a vessel to be unlawful.
11/02/2020
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 464.
11/02/2020
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 116-566.
07/29/2020
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.
07/29/2020
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
07/29/2020
Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife Discharged.
05/04/2020
Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife.
04/28/2020
Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
04/28/2020
Introduced in House
Public Record
Record Updated
Jan 11, 2023 1:43:05 PM