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OGC-00-27R 1 (2000-04-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadxfp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G ~GAO .AmmlmAccountablllty * Integrity * Reliability United States General Accounting Office Office of the General Counsel Washington, DC 20548 B-284923 April 28, 2000 The Honorable James M. Jeffords Chairman, Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions United States Senate Subject: Sexual-Orientation-Based Employment Discrimination: States' Experience With Statutory Prohibitions Since 1997 Dear Mr. Chairman: Three federal statutes-Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Americans With Disabilities Act, and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act-,together make it unlawful for an employer to discriminate against an employee on the basis of characteristics such as race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, and age; these laws do not cover discrimination based on sexual orientation. In 1997, we reported to you our findings regarding the experience of 11 states and the District of Columbia' with statutes prohibiting discrimination in employment on the basis of sexual orientation.' As a principal sponsor of S. 1276, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 1999 (ENDA-99), a bill that would prohibit employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, you asked, in a March 7 letter, that we update our earlier report. Specifically, you asked that wereport on (1) characteristics, coverage, and exclusions of any new state laws and (2) the enforcement experience of the states since our earlier report. To respond to your request, we looked for changes in state statutes or new state statutes since 1997. To get information about states' experience, we spoke with 'The states were California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maine; Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Wisconsin. In the following discussion, state includes the District of Columbia. 2 Sexual-Orientation-Based Emplovment Discrimination: States' Experience With Statutory Prohibitions, (GAO/OGC-98-7R, Oct. 23, 1997). GAO/OGC-00-27R Sexual-Orientation-Based Employment Discrimination 5- 51

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