Key Votes
HR 3685 - Sexual Orientation Employment Nondiscrimination Act (ENDA) - Key Vote
National Key Votes
John Shimkus voted Nay (Passage) on this legislation.
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Stages
Family
Issues
- Labor Unions
- Employment and Affirmative Action
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Business and Consumers
Stage Details
Legislation - Bill Passed (House) (235-184) - Nov. 7, 2007 (Key vote)
Title: Sexual Orientation Employment Nondiscrimination Act (ENDA)
Vote to pass a bill that amends the federal Civil Rights Act to prohibit employers from discriminating on the basis of actual or perceived sexual orientation.
- Prohibits employers from discriminating against any employee in respect to the conditions and privileges of employment based on the employee's actual or perceived sexual orientations (Sec. 4).
- Makes it unlawful for a labor organization or a training program to discriminate against anyone based on the individual's actual or perceived sexual orientation (Sec. 4).
- Forbids employment agencies from refusing to refer a worker based on that worker's actual or perceived sexual orientation (Sec. 4).
- States that these rules do not apply to organizations recognized by the Civil Rights Act as religious organizations that are exempt from equal employment opportunity requirements (Sec. 6).
- States that nothing in the bill requires employers to provide the same benefits to unmarried couples as they do to married couples, with marriage defined as a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife (Sec. 8).
- States that nothing in the bill requires or permits preferential treatment or quotas for any individual or group because of their actual or perceived sexual orientation (Sec. 4).
Legislation - Introduced (House) - Sept. 27, 2007
Title: Sexual Orientation Employment Nondiscrimination Act (ENDA)
Sponsors
- Barney Frank (MA - D) (Out Of Office)
Co-sponsors
- Robert E. 'Rob' Andrews (NJ - D)
- Stephen Ira 'Steve' Cohen (TN - D)
- Bob Filner (CA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Jane Harman (CA - D) (Out Of Office)
- George Miller (CA - D)
- Deborah D. Pryce (OH - R) (Out Of Office)
- Christopher H. Shays (CT - R) (Out Of Office)
- Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL - D)
- Lynn C. Woolsey (CA - D) (Out Of Office)
