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[CITE: 5USC7202]

 
             TITLE 5--GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES
 
                           PART III--EMPLOYEES
 
           Subpart F--Labor-Management and Employee Relations
 
       CHAPTER 72--ANTIDISCRIMINATION; RIGHT TO PETITION CONGRESS
 
             SUBCHAPTER I--ANTIDISCRIMINATION IN EMPLOYMENT
 
Sec. 7202. Marital status

    (a) The President may prescribe rules which shall prohibit, as 
nearly as conditions of good administration warrant, discrimination 
because of marital status in an Executive agency or in the competitive 
service.
    (b) Regulations prescribed under any provision of this title, or 
under any other provision of law, granting benefits to employees, shall 
provide the same benefits for a married female employee and her spouse 
and children as are provided for a married male employee and his spouse 
and children.
    (c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any provision of law 
providing a benefit to a male Federal employee or to his spouse or 
family shall be deemed to provide the same benefit to a female Federal 
employee or to her spouse or family.

(Pub. L. 89-554, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 523, Sec. 7152; Pub. L. 92-187, 
Sec. 3, Dec. 15, 1971, 85 Stat. 644; renumbered Sec. 7202, Pub. L. 95-
454, title VII, Sec. 703(a)(1), Oct. 13, 1978, 92 Stat. 1216.)

                      Historical and Revision Notes
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                                                    Revised Statutes and
     Derivation                U.S. Code             Statutes at Large
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                     5 U.S.C. 633(2)6 (less 1st    July 26, 1937, ch.
                      sentence).                    522, 50 Stat. 533.
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    The authority of the President to prescribe rules is added on 
authority of former section 633(1), which is carried into section 3302. 
The section is rewritten as a general prohibition instead of specifying 
each of the personnel actions to which the prohibition applies. The 
words ``in an Executive agency or in the competitive service'' are added 
for clarity. The sentence ``All Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent 
herewith are repealed.'' is omitted as unnecessary.
    Standard changes are made to conform with the definitions applicable 
and the style of this title as outlined in the preface to the report.


                               Amendments

    1978--Pub. L. 95-454, renumbered section 7152 of this title as this 
section.
    1971--Pub. L. 92-187 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) 
and added subsecs. (b) and (c).

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 3302 of this title.
