119-s894

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 894 Introduced in Senate

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 S. 894

To amend the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 to protect civil 
rights and otherwise prevent meaningful harm to third parties, and for 
 other purposes.

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 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

 March 6, 2025

 Mr. Booker (for himself, Mr. Van Hollen, Mrs. Shaheen, Mr. 
Hickenlooper, Mr. Blumenthal, Ms. Cortez Masto, Mr. Welch, Ms. Baldwin, 
 Mr. Wyden, Mr. Schiff, Ms. Smith, Ms. Hirono, Mr. Sanders, Ms. 
 Duckworth, Mr. Markey, Mrs. Murray, Mr. Padilla, Mr. Heinrich, Mr. 
 Reed, Ms. Klobuchar, Mr. Fetterman, and Ms. Warren) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
 the Judiciary

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 A BILL

To amend the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 to protect civil 
rights and otherwise prevent meaningful harm to third parties, and for 
 other purposes.

 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

 This Act may be cited as the ``Do No Harm Act''.

SEC. 2. EXCEPTION FROM APPLICATION OF ACT WHERE FEDERAL LAW PREVENTS 
 HARM TO OTHERS.

 

Section 3 of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (42 
U.S.C. 2000bb-1) is amended by adding at the end the following:
 ``
            (d) Additional Exception From Application of Act Where Federal 
Law Prevents Harm to Others.--Subsections

    (a) ,

    (b) , and
            (c) do not 
apply to--
 ``

    (1) any provision of law or its implementation that 
 provides for or requires--
 ``
        (A) a protection against discrimination or the 
 promotion of equal opportunity, including the Civil 
 Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. 2000a et seq.), the 
 Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 
 12101 et seq.), the Family and Medical Leave Act of 
 1993 (29 U.S.C. 2601 et seq.), and the Violence Against 
 Women Act of 1994 (34 U.S.C. 12291 et seq.);
 ``
        (B) an employer to provide a wage, other 
 compensation, or a benefit, including leave, or a 
 standard protecting collective activity in the 
 workplace;
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            (C) a protection against child labor, child 
 abuse, or child exploitation; or
 ``
            (D) access to, information about, a referral for, 
 provision of, or coverage for, any health care item or 
 service;
 ``

    (2) any term of a government contract, grant, cooperative 
 agreement, or other award, that provides funds directly or 
 indirectly, and that requires a good, service, function, or 
 activity to be performed for or provided to a beneficiary of or 
 a participant in a program or activity funded, directly or 
 indirectly, by a government contract, grant, cooperative 
 agreement, or other award; or
 ``

    (3) the extent that application would result in denying a 
 person the full and equal enjoyment of a good, service, 
 benefit, facility, privilege, advantage, or accommodation 
 provided by the government.''.

SEC. 3. CLARIFICATION OF PRECLUSION OF LITIGATION BETWEEN PRIVATE 
 PARTIES.

    (a) 

=== Purpose ===
-The purpose of the amendment made by subsection

    (b) is to clarify the applicability of the Religious Freedom Restoration 
Act of 1993 (42 U.S.C. 2000bb et seq.).

    (b) Preclusion.--

Section 3
            (c) of the Religious Freedom Restoration 
Act of 1993 (42 U.S.C. 2000bb-1
            (c) ) is amended, in the first sentence, 
by striking ``judicial proceeding'' and all that follows through the 
first period and inserting ``judicial proceeding to which a government 
is a party and obtain appropriate relief against that government.''.
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