---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 2000e–7"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "2000e–7"
heading: "Effect on State laws"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/2000e-7"
units:
  - "Chapter 21 — Civil Rights"
  - "Subchapter VI — Equal Employment Opportunities"
---

# §2000e–7. Effect on State laws


Nothing in this subchapter shall be deemed to exempt or relieve any [person](/usc/42/2000e.md?p=a) from any liability, duty, penalty, or punishment provided by any present or future law of any [State](/usc/42/2000e.md?p=i) or political subdivision of a [State](/usc/42/2000e.md?p=i), other than any such law which purports to require or permit the doing of any act which would be an unlawful employment practice under this subchapter.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 88–352, title VII, § 708, July 2, 1964, 78 Stat. 262.)