Title VII of Civil Rights Act of 1964 Showing Changes Made by Public Law 92-261 Approved March 24, 1972 COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE HARRISON A. WILLIAMS, JR., New Jersey, Chairman JENNINGS RANDOLPH, West Virginia ADLAI E. STEVENSON III, Illinois JACOB K. JAVITS, New York J. GLENN BEALL, JR., Maryland STEWART E. MCCLURE, Staff Director SUBCOMMITTEE ON LABOR HARRISON A. WILLIAMS, JR., New Jersey, Chairman JENNINGS RANDOLPH, West Virginia CLAIBORNE PELL, Rhode Island JACOB K. JAVITS, New York RICHARD S. SCHWEIKER, Pennsylvania ROBERT TAFT, JR., Ohio ROBERT T. STAFFORD, Vermont GERALD M. FEDER, Counsel DONALD ELISBURG, Associate Counsel (II) FOREWORD This Committee Print contains the text of the Equal Opportunity Act of 1972 (Public Law 92-261), together with the text of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (78 Stat 253; 42 U.S.C. 2000e et seq.) as amended by the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972. The enactment of this Public Law is a major step forward in assuring the goal of equal employment opportunity to millions of minorities and women in our society. The expanded coverage provided by the Act, together with the newly created enforcement powers represents significant advancement in the Civil Rights field. This print has been prepared in order to provide information and assistance to the Members of Congress and other interested parties with regard to the new features in the law. HARRISON A. WILLIAMS, Jr., Chairman. (II) CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964 AS AMENDED AN ACT To enforce the constitutional right to vote, to confer jurisdiction upon the district courts of the United States to provide injunctive relief against discrimination in public accommodations, to authorize the Attorney General to institute suits to protect constitutional rights in public facilities and public education, to extend the Commission on Civil Rights, to prevent discrimination in federally assisted programs, to establish a Commission on Equal Employment Opportunity, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Civil Rights Act of 1964". TITLE VII-EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY1 DEFINITIONS SEC. 701. For the purposes of this title (a) The term "person" includes one or more individuals, governments, governmental agencies, political subdivisions, labor unions, partherships, associations, corporations, legal representatives, mutual companies, joint-stock companies, trusts, unincorporated organizaions, trustees, trustees in bankruptcy, or receivers. (b) The term "employer" means a person engaged in an industry affecting commerce who has fifteen or more employees for each working day in each of twenty or more calendar weeks in the current or preceding calendar year, and any agent of such a person, but such term oes not include (1) the United States, a corporation wholly owned by the Government of the United States, an Indian tribe, or any department or agency of the District of Columbia subject by statute to procedures the competitive service (as defined in section 2102 of title 5 of the United States Code), or (2) a bona fide private membership club (other than a labor organization) which is exempt from taxation under section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, except that during the first year after the date of enactment of the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972, persons having fewer than twenty-five employees (and their agents) shall not be considered employers. (e) The term "employment agency" means any person regularly ndertaking with or without compensation to procure employees for an employer or to procure for employees opportunities to work for an employer and includes an agent of such a person. (d) The term "labor organization" means a labor organization engaged in an industry affecting commerce, and any agent of such an organization, and includes any organization of any kind, any agency, or employee representation committee, group, association, or plan so engaged in which employees participate and which exists for the 1 Includes 1972 amendments made by P.L. 92-261 printed in italic. |