Clarification of Federal Employment Protections Act

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Clarification of Federal Employment Protections Act - States that Congress, in order to dispel any public confusion, repudiates any assertion that federal employees are not protected from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.

Expresses the sense of the Congress that, in the absence of such prohibition, discrimination against federal employees and applicants for federal employment on the basis of sexual orientation is prohibited under current federal law.

Amends federal law to prohibit any federal employee who has authority to take, direct others to take, recommend, or approve any personnel action, from discriminating for or against any federal employee or applicant for federal employment on the basis of sexual orientation.

[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3128 Introduced in House (IH)]






109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3128

 To affirm that Federal employees are protected from discrimination on 
 the basis of sexual orientation and to repudiate any assertion to the 
                               contrary.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 30, 2005

 Mr. Waxman (for himself, Mr. Shays, Mr. Davis of Illinois, Mr. Foley, 
   Mr. Frank of Massachusetts, Mr. Kolbe, Mr. Hoyer, Mr. Engel, Ms. 
Baldwin, Mr. Van Hollen, and Ms. Norton) introduced the following bill; 
        which was referred to the Committee on Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
 To affirm that Federal employees are protected from discrimination on 
 the basis of sexual orientation and to repudiate any assertion to the 
                               contrary.

    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 ``Clarification of Federal Employment 
Protections Act''.

SEC. 2. DISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF SEXUAL ORIENTATION PROHIBITED.

    (a) Repudiation.--In order to dispel any public confusion, Congress 
hereby repudiates any assertion that Federal employees are not 
protected from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
    (b) Affirmation.--It is the sense of Congress that, in the absence 
of the amendment made by subsection (c), discrimination against Federal 
employees and applicants for Federal employment on the basis of sexual 
orientation is prohibited by section 2302(b)(10) of title 5, United 
States Code.
    (c) Amendment.--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.''.
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