H.R.739 - Victims of Abuse Insurance Protection Act

To promote the economic security and safety of victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking, and for other purposes. view all titles (4)

All Bill Titles

  • Short: Victims of Abuse Insurance Protection Act as introduced.
  • Short: Victims' Employment Sustainability Act as introduced.
  • Short: Security and Financial Empowerment (SAFE) Act as introduced.
  • Official: To promote the economic security and safety of victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking, and for other purposes. as introduced.

This Bill currently has no wiki content. If you would like to create a wiki entry for this bill, please Login, and then select the wiki tab to create it.

 
Introduced
 
House
Passes
 
Senate
Passes
 
President
Signs
 

 
01/28/09
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Latest Action Feb 03, 2009Sponsor introductory remarks on meas... Related Bills (1) & Issues (19) Users Tracking H.R.739 (5)
1/28/2009--Introduced.Security and Financial Empowerment (SAFE) Act - Sets forth entitlement standards and implementation guidelines for employee use of emergency leave to address domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking (domestic or sexual violence). Permits victims

Official Summary

1/28/2009--Introduced.Security and Financial Empowerment (SAFE) Act - Sets forth entitlement standards and implementation guidelines for employee use of emergency leave to address domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking (domestic or sexual violence). Permits victims of domestic or sexual violence to substitute existing leave in lieu of emergency leave. Authorizes state use of funds under part A of title IV of the Social Security Act (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) to provide nonrecurrent short-term emergency benefits for victims of domestic or sexual violence on emergency leave. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to prohibit denial of unemployment compensation to individuals separated from employment due to their experience of domestic or sexual violence. Amends the Social Security Act to require training of unemployment compensation and TANF personnel to provide necessary services to victims of domestic or sexual violence.Victims' Employment Sustainability Act - Prohibits certain discriminatory employer practices against victims of domestic or sexual violence. Victims of Abuse Insurance Protection Act - Prohibits denial or restriction of insurance coverage (including termination of health insurance coverage) based on the status of the applicant or insured as a victim of domestic or sexual violence.

...Read the Rest

FEED
Recent News Coverage

Hmmmm, no news coverage found for this bill at this time. This means that this this bill has not yet been mentioned on a publicly-searchable news website by either its official number (for example, "H.R. 3200") or title (for example, "America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009"). As soon as that changes, our daily automated search across the Web will catch it and include it here. If this bill is of interest to you, you can write a letter to the editor referring to this bill by name, and if your letter is published on the Web, a link back your letter will appear here within about one day. Or, if you know of a news article about this bill to display here, email us the web address of this page and the web address of your suggested news article: Our editorial team will post relevant links as quickly as possible. Thanks for helping to build public knowledge about Congress.

FEED
Recent Blog Coverage

View All (76)  |  View Top Rated

01/27/10
RADAR need our help in DC Feb. 18-19, 2010 - antimisandry.com

H.R. 739/S. 1740, the Security and Financial Empowerment Act, is the latest example of the falsehoods that permeate the domestic violence industry: http://www.mediaradar.org/docs/RADARanalysis-HR739Findings.pdf ...

Add to My Political Notebook Save to Notebook Rate
12/09/09
Zinsen fr Staatsschuld schon jetzt hher als Schulbudget on xevjnoh ...

News articles rizolup.blog.hr 739 on all hizygeciall 739 news articles on rizolup.blog.hr.. Net on Bestgrils the nadovagiBestgrils on the net.. . . Chainsaw parts d-44 Sears kudeheSears d-44 chainsaw parts. ...

Add to My Political Notebook Save to Notebook Rate
11/30/09
MichaelBurns's Page - Rebuild the Party

Titled the SAFE Act ("Security and Financial Empowerment"), H.R. 739 intends to promote victimhood and allegations of domestic violence by granting lifetime job security to anyone who makes a claim of Domestic Violence, ...

Add to My Political Notebook Save to Notebook Rate

Users tracking H.R.739 (5) are also tracking:

Bills People Issues
  • S.327 Improving Assistance ...
  • H.R.789 Teen Dating Violence ...
  • S.182 Paycheck Fairness Act...
  • S.909 Matthew Shepard Hate ...
  • S.181 Lilly Ledbetter Fair ...

Users supporting H.R.739 (3) are also:

Supporting Bill Supporting Senator Supporting Representative
Opposing Bill Opposing Senator Opposing Representative

Users opposing H.R.739 (6) are also:

Supporting Bill
Opposing Bill Opposing Senator Opposing Representative

Bill's Views

  • Today: 3
  • Past Seven Days: 27
  • All-Time: 1,488

40%

Users Support Bill

4 in favor / 6 opposed
Write Your Representative
Track with MyOC

OpenCongress is a free and open-source joint project of two non-profit organizations, the Participatory Politics Foundation and the Sunlight Foundation.