EXECUTIVE
ORDER EO
08-02-66
GOVERNOR'S
EXECUTIVE ORDER PERTAINING TO FAIR PRACTICES BY
STATE
AGENCIES
Our
spiritual heritage proclaims the supreme worth of the individual and the
equality of opportunity for each individual to pursue self-realization. The legislature has found and declared
that practices of discrimination against any of its inhabitants because of race)
creed, color, national origin, sex or age are a matter of state concern, that
such discrimination threatens not only the rights and proper privileges of its
inhabitants but menaces the institutions and foundation of a great democratic
state.
In
pursuit of this state's basic policy against discrimination and pursuant to the
executive authority vested in the governor by the constitution of this state, I
hereby proclaim the following executive order:
ARTICLE
I
-- Appointment, Assignment and Promotion of State
Personnel
State
officials and supervisory employees shall appoint, assign and promote state
personnel on the basis of merit and fitness, without regard to race, color,
creed, national origin, sex or age.
References to religion, polities, nationality, and race are omitted on
state employment application forms.
State agencies are not to place any limitation or specification with
respect to race, color, creed, national origin, sex or age, on any position
within state government unless it relates to a bonafide occupational
qualification.
ARTICLE
II
-- State Action
In
performing their service to the public, the agencies of the state shall not
discriminate because of race, color, creed, notional origin, sex or age, nor
shall they authorize the use of state facilities in furtherance of
discriminatory practices.
ARTICLE
III
-- Public Contracts
Every
state contract end subcontract for public works or for goods or services shall
contain a clause prohibiting discriminatory employment practices by contractors
and subcontractors based on race, color, religion, national origin, or
ancestry. The non-discrimination
clause shell include a provision requiring state contractors and subcontractors
to give written notice of their commitments under this clause to any labor union
with which they have a collective bargaining or other agreement. Such contractual previsions shall he
fully and effectively enforced, and any breech of thorn shall ho regarded so a
material breech of the contract. As
part of its annual report each state agency shall submit to the Governor
certification of compliance with
these provisions by all contractors and
subcontractors.
ARTICLE
IV
-- State Employment Services
Any
state agency engaged in the employment referral and placement services for
private industry or public agencies shall fill all job orders on a
non-discriminatory basis, sad shall
decline any job order carrying a specification or limitation as to race, creed,
color, national origin, sex or age,
unless it relates to a bonafide occupational
qualification.
ARTICLE
V
-- Training for Job Opportunities
All
vocational end educational guidance counseling programs in all apprenticeships
and on-the-job training programs of the state shall be conducted to encourage
the fullest development of aptitude without regard to race, creed, color,
national origin, sex or age. A
major element in all such programs shall be vigorous promotion of participation
of all segments of the population, including minority
groups.
ARTICLE
VI
-- State Financial Assistance
In
granting state financial assistance, state agencies shall seek to insure the
state’s policy of non-discrimination.
ARTICLE
VII
-- State Forms
All
state agencies shall avoid in forms or requests for information any item or
inquiry expressing any limitation or specification as to race, color, creed,
national origin, sex or age, unless the item or inquiry is expressly required by
law or is required in good faith for a non-discriminatory purpose and prior
approval of its use has been given by the State Board Against
Discrimination.
ARTICLE
VIII
-- State Licensing and Regulatory Agencies
Where
a respondent in a proceeding before the State Board Against Discrimination is
subject to the licensing or regulatory power of another state agency, the State
Board Against Discrimination shall notify the state agency of the pendency of
such proceeding. If,
thereafter, the respondent is found by the State Board Against Discrimination,
after notice of an opportunity to be heard, to have engaged in a discriminatory
practice, the state agency shall be so notified and shall take action consistent
with the exercise of its licensing or regulatory power.
ARTICLE
IX
-- Cooperation with the State Board Against Discrimination
All
state agencies, in accordance with the provisions and intent of this state’s law
against discrimination shall cooperate fully with the Stats Board Against
Discrimination and duly comply with its orders and give due consideration to its
recommendations for effectuating
the state's policy against discrimination.
ARTICLE
X
-- Conduct by the State's Representatives
State
officials and employees shall be ever mindful of the democratic heritage of the
state which abhors any discrimination on the basis of race, creed, color,
national origin, sex or age, and shall take all necessary steps to effectuate
the provisions and intent of this executive order. Such awareness shall extend to personal
conduct and the common courtesies that should characterize interaction between
human beings.
ARTICLE
XI
-- Publication of Executive Order
Copies
of this executive order shall be distributed to all state officials and copies
shall be posted in conspicuous locations in all state
facilities.
ARTICLE
XII
It
will be the responsibility of the Governor's Office, in cooperation with the
various state agencies, to conduct a review every year to determine that
compliance with the provisions of this Executive Order is being
maintained.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set
my hand and caused the seal of the State
of Washington to be affixed at Olympia
this second day of August, A. D. nineteen
hundred and sixty-six.
DANIEL J. EVANS
Governor of Washington
BY
THE GOVERNOR:
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Assistant
Secretary of State