Do No Harm Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1954 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1954

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 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 6, 2025

Mr. Scott of Virginia (for himself, Mr. Raskin, Mr. Cohen, Ms. Scanlon, 
Mr. Peters, Mr. Connolly, Ms. Tokuda, Mr. Krishnamoorthi, Ms. Sanchez, 
 Ms. Norton, Ms. Schakowsky, Mr. Pocan, Ms. Strickland, Ms. Titus, Ms. 
    Williams of Georgia, Mrs. Cherfilus-McCormick, Mr. Deluzio, Ms. 
 Friedman, Mr. Mfume, Mr. Huffman, Ms. Jacobs, Mr. Neal, Ms. Chu, Mr. 
 Cleaver, Mr. Moulton, Ms. Garcia of Texas, Ms. Pingree, Mr. Davis of 
   Illinois, Mr. Quigley, Mrs. Torres of California, Mr. Foster, Mr. 
 Takano, Ms. DelBene, Mr. Hoyer, Mrs. Dingell, Ms. Omar, Ms. DeLauro, 
   Mr. Mrvan, Ms. Bonamici, Mr. Schneider, Mr. Costa, Mr. Gomez, Mr. 
     Carson, Mr. Moskowitz, Ms. Wilson of Florida, Ms. Waters, Mr. 
  Magaziner, Mr. Fields, Mr. Carbajal, Mr. Garcia of California, Ms. 
      Kelly of Illinois, Mr. Thompson of Mississippi, Ms. Dean of 
 Pennsylvania, Mr. Tonko, Mr. Panetta, Ms. Ansari, Mr. DeSaulnier, Mr. 
  Evans of Pennsylvania, Mr. Thanedar, Mr. Sherman, Mr. Pallone, Mr. 
  Stanton, Mr. Khanna, Ms. McCollum, Ms. Brownley, Ms. Stansbury, Mr. 
  Doggett, Mr. Courtney, Ms. DeGette, Mr. Veasey, Ms. McClellan, Ms. 
 Matsui, Mr. Torres of New York, Ms. Barragan, Ms. Wasserman Schultz, 
 Mr. Nadler, Mr. McGarvey, and Mr. Amo) introduced the following bill; 
          which was 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 (42 U.S.C. 13925 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;
                    ``(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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