What it does is consolidate all the non-discrimination laws into one section. Before discrimination was in many different sections of the laws. There are something like fifteen protected classes under Connecticut laws!
- Race
- Color
- Religious creed
- Sex (including pregnancy)
- Age
- Sexual orientation
- Gender identity or expression
- National origin
- Ancestry
- Marital status
- Mental or physical disability (including blindness or past/present history)
- Intellectual or learning disability
- Genetic information
- Veteran or military status
- Status as a victim/survivor of domestic violence
- Prior criminal record (in employment, with certain exceptions)
And each and every one of the was in a different local of the statues and they also had different sentences for the same type of crime. So the bill standardized them.
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