Tallahassee, FL – Many of the state’s largest employers just launched the Florida Business Coalition for a Competitive Workforce on Monday, aiming to pass a bipartisan bill that would ban discrimination based on gender or sexual orientation in the workplace.

According to Equality Florida, the Competitive Workforce Act would modernize state law to include anti-discrimination protection based on sexual orientation and gender identity or expression. Sponsored in the House of Representatives by Joe Saunders (D-Orlando) and Holly Raschein (R-Key Largo), and by Senator Joe Abruzzo (D-Wellington) in the Senate, the bill is currently receiving bipartisan support.

“We are proud to see so many of Florida’s largest employers taking a stand to encourage the legislature to pass the Competitive Workforce Act,” said Nadine Smith (CEO of Equality Florida) in a statement. “Increasingly we hear from companies that are contemplating relocation or expansion, and they want reassurance that their diverse work force will be able to live in a state where they and their families will be treated fairly. The corporate culture understands that top talent looks not only at a company’s internal policies, but also at the community they will call home.”

The statement says that 84% of the nation’s largest companies have adopted comprehensive anti-discrimination policies that include sexual orientation and gender identity, as evidenced in a report concluded from the 2014 HRC Corporate Equality Index. The companies listed that support the bill include C1 Bank, Florida Blue, University of North Florida, Carlton Fields/Jorden Burt, Haskell, CSX, HSN, Darden, Tech Data, Wells Fargo, and Walt Disney World.

While Walt Disney himself is constantly referred to as a highly discriminatory man, the park is anything but. Every year, a loosely organized pride event, Gay Days, is held at the park (despite last year’s One Milion Moms protest), with attendees in the thousands. Just last year, the Walt Disney Company named George Kalogridis as president of Walt Disney World, making him the first openly gay president of the theme park.

While the other companies – including Fortune 500 Companies – may not jump out as “pro-gay” to readers, they are surprisingly so. Wells Fargo was recognized by DiversityInc as one of the best companies for diversity and a top company for LGBT employees, and was also given a perfect score by the Human Rights Campaign on Corporate Equality Index (2013). The University of North Florida has an entire LGBT Resource Center available for use (UNF is one of two universities in Florida with a full-time staffed LGBT Resource Center), and C1 Bank attended the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Recognition Dinner in Saint Petersburg.

“Since recruiting and retaining talent is critical to our long-term business success, Coalition members understand that Florida employers must attract qualified and diverse applicants who reflect the diverse population of the state,” the employers said in a statement.