HB0046 • 2013

Unfair employment practices.

AN ACT relating to fair employment practices; defining discriminatory and unfair employment practices to include actions based on political affiliation; providing that discriminatory and unfair employment practices include retaliatory acts as specified; and providing for an effective date.

Did Not Pass

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Sponsor: Representative Byrd
Last action: 2013-01-31
Official status: inactive
Effective date: Not listed

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Amendments

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HB0046HW001

Committee of the Whole • LARSEN

Adopted

Plain English: Adopted Committee of the Whole by LARSEN

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HB0046HW002

Committee of the Whole • BYRD

Adopted

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Bill History

2013-01-31 House
H Failed CoW; Indef Postponed
2013-01-31 House
Amendment Adopted
2013-01-31 House
H Amendments Adopted
2013-01-31 House
Amendment Adopted
2013-01-29 House
H Placed on General File
2013-01-29 House
H10 Recommended Do Pass
2013-01-09 House
H Introduced and Referred to H10
2013-01-08 House
H Received for Introduction
2012-12-13 LSO
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WORKING DRAFT
2013
STATE OF
WYOMING
13LSO-0270

HOUSE BILL
NO.

HB0046

Unfair employment practices.

Sponsored by:
Representative(s) Byrd

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to
fair employment practices; defining discriminatory and unfair employment practices to include actions based on political affiliation; providing that discriminatory and unfair employment practices include retaliatory acts as specified;
and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1.
W.S. 27
‑
9
‑
105(
a)(
i
) and (ii)
is
amended to read:

27
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9
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105.

Discriminatory and unfair employment practices enumerated; limitations.

(a)

It is a discriminatory or unfair employment
practice
:

(
i
)

For an employer to refuse to hire, to discharge, to promote or demote, or to discriminate in matters of compensation or the terms, conditions or privileges of employment against, a qualified disabled person or any person otherwise qualified, because of age, sex, race, creed, color, national origin,

political affiliation,
ancestry or pregnancy
, or to discriminate or retaliate against any person for having opposed any employment practice made unlawful under this section or for having made a charge, testified, assisted or participated in any manner in an investigation, proceeding or hearing under this act
;

(ii)

For a person, an employment agency, a labor organization, or its employees or members, to discriminate in matters of employment or membership against any person, otherwise qualified, because of age, sex, race, creed, color, national origin,

political affiliation,
ancestry or pregnancy, or a qualified disabled person
, or to discriminate or retaliate against any person for having opposed any employment practice made unlawful under this section or for having made a charge, testified, assisted or
participated in any manner in an investigation, proceeding or hearing under this act
;

Section 2.
This act is effective immediately upon completion of all acts necessary for a bill to become law as provided by Article 4, Section 8 of the Wyoming Constitution.

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