EXECUTIVE
ORDER		 EO 13087
Effective Date: May 28, 1998
Responsible Office: Office of Equal Opportunity Programs
Subject: Further Amendment to Executive Order 11478, Equal Employment Opportunity in the Federal Government
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, and in order to provide for a uniform policy for the Federal Government to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation, it is hereby ordered that Executive Order 11478, as amended, is further amended as follows:

Section 1.  The first sentence of section 1 is amended by substituting "age, or sexual orientation" for "or age".

Sec. 2.  The second sentence of section 1 is amended by striking the period and adding at the end of the sentence "to the extent permitted by law."

                                                              William J. Clinton
                                                                        /S/
THE WHITE HOUSE, 
May 28, 1998. 



	
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