SACRAMENTO, Calif.— With his signature on Sunday of Senate Bill (SB) 179, authored by Sen. Toni Atkins (D-San Diego) and Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), and SB 310 (Atkins), California Governor Jerry Brown has signed seven Equality California-sponsored bills, ending the 2017 legislative session and bringing the total number of resolutions and bills successfully sponsored…
SACRAMENTO, Calif.— The California Legislature has sent seven Equality California-sponsored bills to Governor Jerry Brown for his signature. In addition, lawmakers approved two resolutions sponsored by Equality California. If the bills are signed into law, it will bring to 127 the number of pieces of legislation advanced by Equality California to advance the health and…
WASHINGTON – Congresswoman Susan Davis (D-San Diego) has re-introduced two of her signature election reform bills to restore integrity to federal elections and end constraints placed on voters who want to vote by mail, known as absentee. The Universal Right to Vote by Mail Act would end restrictions many states impose on a person’s ability…
A barrage of anti-LGBTQ bills are being pushed in the Oklahoma state legislature by anti-equality activists. With state lawmakers set to convene Feb. 6th for the 2017 legislative session, at least eight bills attacking LGBTQ Oklahomans and their families are already in the docket for consideration — the most of any state in the nation….
SACRAMENTO – California Gov. Jerry Brown Friday signed into law six gun safety bills that ban possession of high capacity assault rifle magazines, regulate the sale and possession of ammunition, expand background checks, limit loans of firearms and ban the resale of a gun to someone legally barred from purchasing it. The new laws were…
Thursday, by a vote of 23 to 7 the Missouri Senate advanced Senate Joint Resolution (SJR) 39 to the House of Representatives. Gaining national attention after a historic filibuster by Democrats earlier this week, the measure proposes to allow individuals, organizations, and businesses to use religion as a valid excuse to discriminate against LGBT people. Similar…
Legislators in the Missouri General Assembly have introduced a series of anti-LGBT joint resolutions in both the House and Senate, writes Hayley Miller on the HRC Blog. If passed, these three bills, particularly SJR 39, would put religious refusals on the ballot in Missouri As early as Monday, the Missouri Senate could vote on SJR 39. SJR…
WASHINGTON – Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation and five leading national child welfare organizations joined forces to repudiate as harmful to children and families anti-LGBT legislation introduced in states across the nation. The joint statement warned that the shameful measures, including a virulently anti-LGBT adoption measure a Florida Senate committee is scheduled to…
WASHINGTON— Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and HRC Alabama kept up pressure on the Alabama legislature to halt the progress of Indiana-style “religious freedom” bills (H.B. 56)(H.B. 296/S.B. 261) that would allow discrimination in the arenas of marriage recognition and adoption. With H.B. 56 set to receive Kristen its first hearing in a Senate…
WASHINGTON – Today, the Human Rights Campaign issued an updated primer on a wave of more than 30 bills threatening LGBT equality in the guise of “religious freedom” across the country. In addition, HRC is specifically spotlighting the harm these bills will do to jobs and economic activity in the states where they are being…
