; Whereas the States of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, and Massachusetts (plus the District of Columbia) prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in public accommodations, and New Hampshire, New York, and Wisconsin prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in public accommodations; Whereas the States of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington (plus the District of Columbia) prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in education, and Wisconsin prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in education; Whereas more than 100 cities in States without explicit nondiscrimination laws have adopted ordinances barring discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity; Whereas 89 percent of Fortune 500 companies have proactively adopted nondiscrimination policies inclusive of sexual orientation and 66 percent of Fortune 500 companies have adopted nondiscrimination policies inclusive of gender identity; Whereas lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals may still be legally discriminated against in many jurisdictions in the areas of credit, employment, education, housing, jury service, and public accommodations; Whereas legislation was introduced in the 114th Congress to clarify that under Federal law lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals should not be subject to discrimination in public accommodations; Whereas in 2015 the Supreme Court affirmed in Obergefell et al. v. Hodges, Director, Ohio Department of Health, et al., Supreme Court Docket No. 14–556, decided June 26, 2015, that the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution requires States to recognize the right of 2 individuals of the same sex to marry