Clarification of Federal Employment Protections Act

Bill: 114-hr-4668
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Duckworth, Tammy [D-IL-8]
Introduced: 2016-03-02
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Employment discrimination and employee rights

Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
Latest action: action_date: 2016-03-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

Summaries:
action_date: 2016-03-02
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Clarification of Federal Employment Protections Act</b></p> <p>This bill revises personnel management and merit system requirements that protect certain federal employees against discrimination to include a provision that prohibits personnel actions from being made on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.</p>

tv_txt: I 114th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 4668 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 2, 2016 Ms. Duckworth (for herself, Mr. Cummings , Mr. Hanna , Mr. Connolly , Mr. Lynch , Ms. Norton , Mr. Nadler , and Mrs. Watson Coleman ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform A BILL To affirm that Federal employees are protected from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity and to repudiate any assertion to the contrary.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Clarification of Federal Employment Protections Act . 2. Discrimination against Federal employees on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity prohibited Section 2302(b)(1) of title 5, United States Code, is amended— (1) by striking or at the end of subparagraph (D); (2) by inserting or at the end of subparagraph (E); and (3) by adding at the end the following: (F) on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; .