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House Will Consider Anti-Asian Hate Crimes and Pregnant Worker Protection Bills This Month

The House is set to vote this month on bills to ensure workplace protections for pregnant employees, reform debt collection practices and combat a rise in hate crimes against Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) announced Thursday. 

Hoyer said in a notice to lawmakers that the House will vote the week of May 17 on the Senate-passed bill to address anti-Asian hate crimes. That legislation, which senators passed 94-1 last month, would create a new position at the Justice Department to review pandemic-related hate crimes and establish ways to report incidents online.

The House will also consider a resolution from Rep. Judy Chu (D-Calif.), the leader of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, to formally condemn the shootings at Atlanta-area spas on March 16 that resulted in the deaths of six Asian women.

Read the source article at The Hill

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