Tanya Ward Jordan, President of the Coalition For Change, Inc. (C4C), and Paulette Taylor, the C4C's Civil Rights Chair, presented EEO reforms to the late Representative Elijah Cummings. He first introduced the crafted reforms in House of Representatives (H.R.) within H.R. 1557 Federal Employee Antidiscrimination Act of 2015 and within in H.R. 135. The bill became law January 1, 2021