To amend the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 to remove the requirement that members of a union exhaust internal reasonable hearing procedures prior to bringing certain legal or administrative proceedings.
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Summary
What This Bill Does
Removes the requirement that union members exhaust internal hearing procedures before bringing certain legal or administrative proceedings.
Who Benefits and How
Union members could bring external legal or administrative proceedings without waiting through up to four months of internal union hearing procedures.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Labor organizations would lose an internal procedural shield against immediate outside proceedings.
Key Provisions
- Strikes the internal-hearing exhaustion proviso from the LMRDA.
- Delays effectiveness for 18 months after enactment.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Removes the requirement that union members exhaust internal hearing procedures before bringing certain legal or administrative proceedings.
Key Policy Areas
Labor, Government Operations
Primary Purpose
Removes the requirement that union members exhaust internal hearing procedures before bringing certain legal or administrative proceedings.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Union members seeking legal or administrative relief
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Labor organizations losing the exhaustion requirement
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
IntroducedMr. Harris of North Carolina (for himself, Mr. Onder, and …
Stakeholder Effects
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Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
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