Note: Bills can still be filed until January 20th, so new items may be added. To see my master list of 2017 legislative topics, click here.
The letters before a bill’s number designate its chamber of origin. HB= House Bill, SB= Senate Bill, HR= House Resolution, etc.
Bills to support:
SB 783: Prohibits discrimination for public employment, in matters of sexual orientation or gender identity.
HB 1395, SB 782, SJ 216, HJ 538, and SJ 220 all repeal Virginia’s constitutional amendment prohibiting same-sex marriages and civil unions.
SB 822: Makes housing discrimination on the basis of gender identity and sexual orientation illegal.
Bills to oppose:
HB 1612: An anti-transgender bathroom bill which also requires school officials to contact parents if their student comes out as transgender at school. Specifically, the bill: prohibits people from using a public bathroom or changing facility which does not correspond with the sex listed on their birth certificate; allows people to sue a public institution if that institution allows transgender people to use the bathroom corresponding with their gender; and requires principals to, within 24 hours, notify parents if their child expresses a wish to be “recognized or treated as the opposite sex” or to use a name or pronouns “inconsistent with [their] sex.” While this item is being billed as a “Personal Privacy Act,” it can only be enforced if government institutions interrogate transgender people, or people of ‘ambiguous’ gender presentation, about their birth sex.
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