Require legislative branch offices to repay the Treasury for retaliation-related awards and settlements.

Requiring other legislative branch offices to repay Treasury for related retaliation.

The bill would extend repayment obligations to other legislative branch offices for retaliation cases.

Scanlon Reintroduces Bill To Strengthen Congress’s Workplace Harassment and Discrimination Rules | U.S. Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon
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The CAA Reform Act required other legislative branch offices to repay the Treasury for awards and settlements in all employment discrimination cases. However, it did not require repayment of amounts paid in connection with retaliation; this bill corrects that.

Scanlon’s 2026 reintroduction explicitly says current law does not yet require other legislative branch offices to repay Treasury for retaliation-related awards and settlements, and that her bill would fix that gap.

partial later_term A for effort

Scanlon Reintroduces Bill To Strengthen Congress’s Workplace Harassment and Discrimination Rules | U.S. Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon
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As soon as practicable after the Executive Director is made aware that a payment of an award or settlement under this chapter has been made ... in connection with a claim alleging a violation ... by an employing office (other than an employing office of the House of Representatives or an employing office of the Senate), the Executive Director shall notify the head of the employing office ...

Current U.S. Code still reflects reimbursement rules for legislative branch employing offices other than House and Senate offices, but the cited text does not show a new May 2026 change requiring reimbursement for retaliation-related awards and settlements.

unresolved same_term

[USC02] 2 USC 1415: Payments
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