Civil Rights Act of 1991

US labor law passed in 1991 Civil Rights Act of 1991Long titleCivil Rights Act of 1991Enacted bythe 102nd United States CongressCitationsPublic lawPub. L. 102-166CodificationActs amendedCivil Rights Act of 1964Titles amendedTitle 42: Public Health And WelfareU.S.C. sections amended1981 et seq.Legislative historyIntroduced in the Senate as S. 1745 by John Danforth (R–MO) on September 24, 1991Passed the Senate on October 30, 1991 (93–5)Passed the House on November 7, 1991 (381–38)Signed into law by President George H. W. Bush on November 21, 1991 The Civil Rights Act of 1991 is a United States labor law, passed in response to United States Supreme Court decisions that limited the rights of employees who had sued their employers for discrimination. The Act represented the first effort since the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to modify some of the basic procedural and substantive rights provided by federal law in employment discrimination cases. It provided the right to trial by jury on discrimination claims and introduced the possibility of emotional distress damages and limited the amount that a jury could award. It added provisions to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act