Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987

Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987

Long title	An Act to restore the broad scope of coverage and to clarify the application of title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, and title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Nicknames	Grove City Bill
Enacted by	the 100th United States Congress
Citations
Public law	Pub. L. 100–259
Statutes at Large	102 Stat. 28
Codification
Acts amended	Civil Rights Act of 1964 Education Amendments of 1972 Rehabilitation Act of 1973 Age Discrimination Act of 1975
Legislative history
Introduced in the Senate as S. 557 by Ted Kennedy (D-MA) on February 19, 1987 Committee consideration by Labor and Human Resources Passed the Senate on January 28, 1988 (75–14) Passed the House on March 2, 1988 (315–98) Vetoed by President Ronald Reagan on March 16, 1988 Overridden by the Senate on March 22, 1988 (73–24) Overridden by the House and became law on March 22, 1988 (292–133)

The Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987, or Grove City Bill, is a United States legislative act that specifies that entities receiving federal funds must comply with civil rights legislation in all of their operations, not just in the program or activity that received the funding. The Act overturned the precedent set by the Supreme Court decision in Grove City College v. Bell, 465 U.S. 555 (1984), which held that only the particular program in an educational institution receiving federal financial assistance was required to comply with the anti-discrimination provisions of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, not the institution as a whole.^[1][2]