[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1345 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1345

 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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 9, 2007

  Mr. Akaka (for himself, Mr. Lieberman, Ms. Collins, Mr. Levin, Mr. 
 Leahy, Mr. Feingold, and Mrs. Clinton) introduced the following bill; 
which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security 
                        and Governmental Affairs

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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 
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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