Sec. 1. 5 MRSA §4552, as amended by PL 1993, c. 327, §1, is further amended to read:

§4552. Policy

To protect the public health, safety and welfare, it is declared to be the policy of this State to keep continually in review all practices infringing on the basic human right to a life with dignity, and the causes of these practices, so that corrective measures may, where possible, be promptly recommended and implemented, and to prevent discrimination in employment, housing or access to public accommodations on account of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, religion, ancestry or national origin; and in employment, discrimination on account of age or because of the previous assertion of a claim or right under former Title 39 or Title 39-A and in housing because of familial status; and to prevent discrimination in the extension of credit on account of age, race, color, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, ancestry or national origin; and to prevent discrimination in education on account of sex or physical or mental disability.

Nothing in this chapter confers legislative approval of, or special rights to, any person or group of persons.

Sec. 2. 5 MRSA §4553, sub-§9-C is enacted to read:

9-C.__Sexual orientation.__"Sexual orientation" means having an orientation for heterosexuality, homosexuality or bisexuality, having a history of that orientation or being identified with that orientation.

Sec. 3. 5 MRSA §4553, sub-§10, ¶E, as amended by PL 1983, c. 578, §2, is further amended to read:

E. In determining whether any a person is acting as an agent or employee of another person so as to make such the other person responsible for his that person's acts, the question of whether the specific acts performed were actually authorized or subsequently ratified shall is not be controlling; and

Sec. 4. 5 MRSA §4553, sub-§10, ¶F, as enacted by PL 1983, c. 578, §2, is amended to read:

F. Unlawful educational discrimination as defined and limited by subchapter V-B.; and