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Shown Here: Passed House (05/17/2019) Equality Act This bill prohibits discrimination based on sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity in a wide variety of areas including public accommodations and facilities, education, federal funding, employment, housing, credit, and the jury system. Specifically, the bill defines and includes sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity among the ...

The Equality Act is a bill in the United States Congress, that, if passed, would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (including titles II, III, IV, VI, VII, and IX) to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, sexual orientation and gender identity in employment, housing, public accommodations, education, federally funded programs, credit, and jury service. [1][2] The Supreme Court 's June ...

Congressional Democrats reintroduced the Equality Act on Tuesday, reviving a long-running effort to enshrine federal protections against discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

Several Congressional Democrats reintroduced the Equality Act on Tuesday, resurrecting a decades-long effort to enshrine anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ+ Americans in federal law.

The nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) found that national support for the Equality Act topped 75 percent, including a majority of Republicans and Independents. The Equality Act has also garnered support from businesses and over 650 organizations, including civil rights, education, health care, and faith-based groups.

The Equality Act has also garnered support from businesses and over 650 organizations, including civil rights, education, health care, and faith-based groups. The Equality Act was reintroduced today by Congressman Mark Takano and Senators Jeff Merkley, Tammy Baldwin and Cory Booker.

House and Senate Democrats on Tuesday reintroduced the Equality Act, a landmark civil rights bill that would make sexual orientation and gender identity protected classes. The measure, which would ...

The Equality Act is a landmark piece of legislation that would provide civil rights protections to LGBTQ+ people across the nation.

The Equality Act amends landmark federal anti-discrimination laws to explicitly add sexual orientation and gender identity to longstanding bans on discrimination in employment, housing, public accommodations, jury service, access to credit, federal funding, and more.

Clayton County, 140 S. Ct. 1731 (2020), this Act furthers the compelling government interest in providing redress for the serious harms to mental and physical health, financial security and wellbeing, civic participation, freedom of movement and opportunity, personal dignity, and physical safety that result from discrimination.

This fact sheet outlines how the Equality Act would provide much-needed civil rights protections for LGBTQ people, women, people of faith, and others.

Adopting the Equality Act could improve access to care and overall population health for at least 10 million LGBT Americans—which is approximately the population size of North Carolina (the ninth largest state in the United States).

We Still Need the Equality Act In June 2020, the Supreme Court ruled in Bostock v. Clayton County that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity because they are types of sex discrimination.

Text of the Equality Act prohibiting discrimination based on sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity in various areas.

What would the Equality Act do? The Equality Act would amend the 1964 Civil Rights Act to explicitly prevent discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

HRC hailed the historic passage of the Equality Act by the U.S. House of Representatives, the first time a chamber of Congress has approved a comprehensive LGBTQ civil rights bill. The crucially important, bipartisan legislation will finally provide clear, comprehensive non-discrimination protections for LGBTQ people across the country in employment, housing, public spaces, education, jury ...

The Equality Act 2010 legally protects people from discrimination in the workplace and in wider society. It replaced previous anti-discrimination laws with a single Act, making the law easier to understand and strengthening protection in some situations.

The Equality Act, if passed into law, would make amendments to existing civil rights laws, such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Equal Opportunity Act, to explicitly include sexual orientation and gender identity as protected characteristics and prohibit discrimination in public spaces/federally funded programs based on sex.

The House has passed the Equality Act, which would amend the 1964 Civil Rights Act to protect people from being discriminated based on sexual orientation and gender identity in employment, housing ...

Today (October 1, 2020) marks a decade since the Equality Act came into force. But 10 years on, has the Equality Act achieved what it set out to?