Expand the Office of Employee Advocacy's authority so it can represent victims in federal court.

Enabling the Office of Employee Advocacy to have jurisdiction in federal court.

The legislation would let the office that represents victims in the administrative process also represent them in court.

Scanlon Reintroduces Bill To Strengthen Congress’s Workplace Harassment and Discrimination Rules | U.S. Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon
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Scanlon said the CAA Enhancement Act would "enable the Office of Employee Advocacy to have jurisdiction in federal court" and that it would let the office that represents victims in the CAA administrative process also represent them in court.

Recent official press release shows Scanlon reintroduced the bill containing the exact federal-court expansion she promised, but it is still only a reintroduction and not enacted law.

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Scanlon Reintroduces Bill To Strengthen Congress’s Workplace Harassment and Discrimination Rules | U.S. Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon
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The bill text adds a new section permitting the Office of Employee Advocacy to provide assistance to covered employees in connection with civil actions after a covered employee files suit.

The introduced bill contains the requested authority expansion in legislative text, which is concrete effort but not proof of delivery.

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CAA_Enhancement_Act.pdf
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The office says it can provide representation in certain administrative or judicial bodies, but "not in federal court proceedings."

The current official office description still excludes federal court proceedings, indicating the requested authority has not yet been expanded into force.

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