Sec. 4. Reporting to Congress regarding cases in which the EEOC is ordered to pay fees and costs or sanctions
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In any case brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in which a court orders the Commission to pay fees and costs or imposes a sanction on the Commission, the Inspector General of the Commission shall— notify the Committee on Education and the Workforce of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate of the order or sanction within 14 days of the court’s decision, including the name of the case, the nature of the court’s determination, and the amount of fees and costs ordered or the amount of the sanction imposed by the court; and conduct an investigation to determine why an order for sanction, fees, or costs was imposed by the court, and, not later than 90 days after the court’s decision, submit a report to the Committee on Education and the Workforce of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate that includes— information obtained from interviews and affidavits of each member and staff person of the Commission involved in the case; the amount of resources allocated to the case, including in terms of full-time equivalents; a comparison of the case to other cases in which a court ordered fees and costs or imposed sanctions against the Commission; if the determination to bring the case was not by a vote of the full Commission, the reasons such a vote was not held; and any other relevant information.
For any case described in subsection (a), the Commission, in consultation with the General Counsel of the Commission, shall— not later than 60 days after the court’s decision, submit a report to the Committee on Education and the Workforce of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate detailing the steps the Commission is taking to reduce instances in which a court orders the Commission to pay fees and costs or imposes a sanction on the Commission; and not later than 30 days after the report is submitted to the Committee on Education and the Workforce of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate under paragraph (1), post such report on its public website.