{"format":1,"id":"117-hr-1065","congress":117,"number":"H.R. 1065","kind":"bill","group":"bills","title":"Pregnant Workers Fairness Act","title_source":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","official_title":"To eliminate discrimination and promote women's health and economic security by ensuring reasonable workplace accommodations for workers whose ability to perform the functions of a job are limited by pregnancy, childbirth, or a related medical condition.","titles":[{"type":"Official Title as Introduced","title":"To eliminate discrimination and promote women's health and economic security by ensuring reasonable workplace accommodations for workers whose ability to perform the functions of a job are limited by pregnancy, childbirth, or a related medical condition."},{"type":"Short Titles from RFS (Referred to Senate) bill text","title":"Pregnant Workers Fairness Act"},{"type":"Display Title","title":"Pregnant Workers Fairness Act"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Introduced","title":"Pregnant Workers Fairness Act"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Reported to House","title":"Pregnant Workers Fairness Act"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","title":"Pregnant Workers Fairness Act"}],"outcome":"passed_house","law_number":null,"introduced":"2021-02-15","chambers":{"house":{"status":"roll_call","date":"2021-05-14","vote":{"id":"117-2021-h143","question":"On Passage","title":"Pregnant Workers Fairness Act","result":"Passed","yea":315,"nay":101,"present":0,"not_voting":14,"source":"https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2021/roll143.xml"}},"senate":{"status":"na","date":null,"vote":null}},"president":{"status":"na","date":null},"vice_president_tie_breaker":null,"latest_action":{"text":"Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.","date":"2021-05-17"},"nominees":null,"amendments":[],"other_votes":[],"crs_summary":{"date":"2021-05-14","stage":"Passed House","blocks":[{"k":"h","t":"Pregnant Workers Fairness Act"},{"k":"p","t":"This bill prohibits employment practices that discriminate against making reasonable accommodations for qualified employees affected by pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions. A qualified employee is an employee or applicant who, with or without reasonable accommodation, can perform the essential functions of the position, with specified exceptions."},{"k":"p","t":"Specifically, the bill declares that it is an unlawful employment practice to"},{"k":"li","t":"fail to make reasonable accommodations to known limitations of such employees unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on an entity's business operation;","d":1},{"k":"li","t":"require a qualified employee affected by such condition to accept an accommodation other than any reasonable accommodation arrived at through an interactive process;","d":1},{"k":"li","t":"deny employment opportunities based on the need of the entity to make such reasonable accommodations to a qualified employee;","d":1},{"k":"li","t":"require such employees to take paid or unpaid leave if another reasonable accommodation can be provided; or","d":1},{"k":"li","t":"take adverse action in terms, conditions, or privileges of employment against a qualified employee requesting or using such reasonable accommodations.","d":1},{"k":"p","t":"The bill sets forth enforcement procedures and remedies that cover different types of employees in relation to such unlawful employment practices."},{"k":"p","t":"The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission must provide examples of reasonable accommodations that shall be provided to affected employees unless the employer can demonstrate that doing so would impose an undue hardship."},{"k":"p","t":"The bill prohibits state immunity under the Eleventh Amendment to the Constitution from an action for a violation of this bill."}],"words":239},"summary":{"main_subject":{"text":"Makes it an unlawful employment practice for a covered entity to fail to make reasonable accommodations for known limitations related to pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions of a qualified employee, and sets enforcement, remedies and definitions for that rule.","cites":[{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1065/text/eh#H6284BE5B415449FA9968EC1AD36FCE8E"},{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1065/text/eh#H09032EE68AB5427F9E54F1A33BA0DB1F"},{"label":"Sec. 5","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1065/text/eh#H4BB378B5694E48D082CB0CEDBF33C319"}]},"core_areas":["Workplace accommodations for pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions","Enforcement and remedies for covered employees","Equal Employment Opportunity Commission rulemaking","State immunity from suit"],"what_it_does":[{"text":"Makes it an unlawful employment practice for a covered entity not to make reasonable accommodations to known limitations related to pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions of a qualified employee, unless it can demonstrate undue hardship on the operation of its business.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1065/text/eh#H6284BE5B415449FA9968EC1AD36FCE8E"}},{"text":"Bars a covered entity from requiring a qualified employee to accept a different accommodation than one reached through the interactive process, or to take leave, paid or unpaid, if another reasonable accommodation can be provided.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1065/text/eh#H6284BE5B415449FA9968EC1AD36FCE8E"}},{"text":"Bars a covered entity from denying employment opportunities because of its need to make such accommodations, or from taking adverse action against an employee for requesting or using a reasonable accommodation.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1065/text/eh#H6284BE5B415449FA9968EC1AD36FCE8E"}},{"text":"Applies the powers, remedies and procedures of existing laws, such as title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995, to different groups of employees, and prohibits retaliation and coercion against people who exercise rights under the Act.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1065/text/eh#H09032EE68AB5427F9E54F1A33BA0DB1F"}},{"text":"Requires the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to issue regulations within 2 years after enactment, including examples of reasonable accommodations for known limitations related to pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 4","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1065/text/eh#HCFB4406B5D8344BDAEC7889ACAFE6F4B"}},{"text":"Provides that a State is not immune under the 11th Amendment from an action in Federal or State court for a violation of the Act, with remedies available to the same extent as against any public or private entity other than a State.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 6","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1065/text/eh#H8D6ACA0D2939401EBF9FEEEFD5769C76"}}],"unexpected":[],"version":{"type":"Engrossed in House","date":"2021-05-14","rule":"passed","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1065/text/eh"},"current":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","approved":"2026-10-15","approved_by":"checks"},"sources":{"congress_gov":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1065","text":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1065/text"},"card":{"image":"card/item/117-hr-1065.png","v":"604cfae6fa6a","alt":"Votes on Record. H.R. 1065, 117th Congress: Pregnant Workers Fairness Act. House: 315 Yea, 101 Nay. Outcome: Passed House, 14 May 2021."}}