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Please check this page often! We'll update it as new issues arise and new resources become available.
| Healthcare Discrimination Bills (HB 10, HB 48, SB 152) HB 10 Sponsor: Rick Nelson HB 48 Sponsors: Stan Lee, Sheldon Baugh, Jim DeCesare, Joe Fischer, J.R. Gray, Mike Harmon, Russ Mobley, Lonnie Napier, Steven Rudy, Jim Stewart SB 152 Sponsors: Vernie McGaha, Dan Seum, Dick Roeding, Gary Tapp |
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Both House bills would prohibit Kentucky's state colleges and universities from practicing fair healthcare for all coupled employees, regardless of marital status. It would overturn the University of Louisville Board of Trustees' decision to include unmarried employees in the university's health insurance plan, and take coverage away from families who entered the plan on January 1, 2007. The Senate bill is far more sweeping and ominous, banning fair healthcare for employees of all state agencies, and even Kentucky's private colleges. |
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| Safe Schools Bill (HB 64) Sponsors: Mike Cherry, Carolyn Belcher, Larry Clark, Jon Draud, Mary Lou Marzian, Darryl Owens, Ruth Ann Palumbo, Rick Rand, Arnold Simpson, Kathy Stein, Tommy Thompson, Ron Weston, Brent Yonts |
Passed the House Fact Sheet |
This bill provides school districts with tools for dealing with harassment and intimidation against any student, including young people who are targeted because of their perceived or actual sexual orientation or gender identity or expression. UPDATE: Anti-fairness extremists have proposed amendments to the Safe Schools bill. Both amendments seek to protect bullies who target gay students in the name of "faith based values." |
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| Hospital Visitation Initiative (HB 474) Sponsor: Mary Lou Marzian |
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| This initiative would allow any adult hospital patient to designate another individual to be treated as a member of the patient's family with regard to visitation. | |
| Statewide Fairness Bill | |
| This bill would prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity throughout Kentucky in employment, housing, public accommodations, and credit. Right now only residents of Metro Louisville, Lexington/Fayette County, and Covington, Kentucky are protected by city ordinance against discrimination. No one should be fired from a job, denied an apartment, turned away by a restaurant, or refused credit simply because they are gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender. | |
| Anti-Fairness Bill | |
| This bill targets gay people for discrimination by tearing down existing protections against discrimination for LGBT people in Metro Louisville, Lexington/Fayette County, and Covington, KY. It would also prohibit other cities and counties from enacting Fairness ordinances, restricting them from passing civil rights protections beyond those already in Kentucky law. Kentucky law doesn’t protect people from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity – neither does Federal law. | |
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