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GAO-02-665R 1 (2002-04-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadxfv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: £ 7=Accountability * Integrity * Reliability United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 April 19, 2002 The Honorable Edward M. Kennedy The Honorable Joseph E. Lieberman The Honorable Arlen Specter The Honorable James Jeffords United States Senate Subject: Sexual-Orientation-Based Employment Discrimination: State and Federal Status 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 and again in 2000, we reported on state' statutes prohibiting discrimination in employment on the basis of sexual orientation As the principal sponsors of 107th Cong., S. 1284, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 2001 (ENDA-2001), a bill that would prohibit employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, you asked us to provide some additional information. Specifically, you asked us for (1) a current list of states with statutes prohibiting discrimination in employment based on sexual orientation, (2) a brief description of Maryland's new non-discrimination statute in comparison with ENDA-2001, and (3) any major differences between ENDA-2001 and 106' Cong., S. 1276 (ENDA-99). 'Throughout this correspondence, we use the term state to include the District of Columbia. 2Sexual-Orientation-Based Employment Discrimination: States' Experience With Statutory Prohibitions, GAO/OGC-98-7, Oct. 23, 1997; Sexual-Orientation-Based Employment Discrimination: States' Experience With Statutory Prohibitions Since 1997, GAO/OGC-00-27R, Apr. 28, 2000. GAO-02-665R Sexual-Orientation-Based Employment Discrimination

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