Further Amendments to Executive Order 11478, Equal Employment Opportunity in the Federal Government, and Executive Order 11246, Equal Employment Opportunity
Signed July 21, 2014·Barack Obama·79 FR 42971
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Amends Executive Order 11478, which bars discrimination in federal employment, to add gender identity to its existing prohibition on sexual orientation discrimination. Also amends Executive Order 11246, which governs federal contractors, to add sexual orientation and gender identity to the categories (alongside sex and national origin) protected against discrimination in federal contracting provisions. Directs the Secretary of Labor to prepare implementing regulations within 90 days. States that the contractor-related changes apply to contracts entered into on or after the effective date of those regulations. Clarifies that the order does not alter existing agency legal authority or Office of Management and Budget functions, and does not create any enforceable legal right or benefit against the federal government or its officers and employees. The order took effect immediately upon signing.
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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including 40 U.S.C. 121, and in order to provide for a uniform policy for the Federal Government to prohibit discrimination and take further steps to promote economy and efficiency in Federal Government procurement by prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, it is hereby ordered
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Disposition
Amends: EO 11246, September 24, 1965; EO 11478, August 8, 1969 Revoked by: EO 14173, January 21, 2025
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Executive Order 13672 of July 21, 2014
Further Amendments to Executive Order 11478,
Equal Employment Opportunity in the Federal Government,
and Executive Order 11246, Equal Employment Opportunity
By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, including 40 U.S.C. 121, and in order to
provide for a uniform policy for the Federal Government
to prohibit discrimination and take further steps to
promote economy and efficiency in Federal Government
procurement by prohibiting discrimination based on
sexual orientation and gender identity, it is hereby
ordered as follows:
Section 1. Amending Executive Order 11478. The first
sentence of section 1 of Executive Order 11478 of
August 8, 1969, as amended, is revised by substituting
“sexual orientation, gender identity” for “sexual
orientation”.
Sec. 2. Amending Executive Order 11246. Executive Order
11246 of September 24, 1965, as amended, is hereby
further amended as follows:
(a) The first sentence of numbered paragraph (1) of
section 202 is revised by substituting “sex, sexual
orientation, gender identity, or national origin” for
“sex, or national origin”.
(b) The second sentence of numbered paragraph (1)
of section 202 is revised by substituting “sex, sexual
orientation, gender identity, or national origin” for
“sex or national origin”.
(c) Numbered paragraph (2) of section 202 is
revised by substituting “sex, sexual orientation,
gender identity, or national origin” for “sex or
national origin”.
(d) Paragraph (d) of section 203 is revised by
substituting “sex, sexual orientation, gender
identity, or national origin” for “sex or national
origin”.
Sec. 3. Regulations. Within 90 days of the date of this
order, the Secretary of Labor shall prepare regulations
to implement the requirements of section 2 of this
order.
Sec. 4. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order
shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to an agency or the head thereof; or
(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget
relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) This order is not intended to, and does not,
create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural,
enforceable at law or in equity by any party against
the United States, its departments, agencies, or
entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any
other person.
Sec. 5. Effective Date. This order shall become
effective immediately, and section 2 of this order
shall apply to contracts entered into on or after the
effective date of the rules promulgated by the
Department of Labor under section 3 of this order.
(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
July 21, 2014.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed July 21, 2014. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.