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Jun 22, 2023 · The Equality Act. The Equality Act would provide consistent and explicit anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ+ people across key areas of life, including employment, housing, credit, education, public spaces and services, federally funded programs, and jury service. H.R. 15; S. 5. The Problem. Despite significant steps forward, lesbian ...
Jun 25, 2021 · The Equality Act would also strengthen civil rights protections for other protected groups, including people of color, women, people with disabilities, and people of faith by expanding where non ...
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Feb 24, 2021 · The Equality Act would amend the 1964 Civil Rights Act to explicitly prevent discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. The bill has been introduced multiple times before and ...
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Oct 5, 2021 · This policy brief explains what the Equality Act and the ERA would do, how they can work together, and why we need both. What is the Equality Act? LGBTQ+ people face pervasive discrimination and lack basic equality protections under federal laws and the laws of 29 states. [1]
The Equality Act was a bill in the United States Congress, that, if passed, would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (including titles II, III, IV, VI, VII, and IX) to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, sexual orientation and gender identity in employment, housing, public accommodations, education, federally funded programs, credit ...
Mar 16, 2019 · The Equality Act would strengthen civil rights protections in three ways. First, it would make it crystal clear that federal sex discrimination laws prohibit discrimination based on sex ...
Feb 25, 2021 · “We are really excited to have the incredible support of President Biden and his commitment to make the Equality Act the law of the land,” Rep. David Cicilline, a cosponsor of the Equality Act ...
