Legislation was introduced in the Alaska House this week to ban discrimination against LGBTQ+ individuals. Similar bills have been introduced each legislative session since 2011, but none have passed either chamber.
of state legislators is the largest since 2003. Seventeen members of the 40-seat House are brand-new to the Alaska Capitol.
Fourteen Democrats and independents in the 40-seat House signed on to sponsor Armstrong’s bill when it was introduced Wednesday, including three members of the Bush Caucus who serve in the Republican-led majority. None of the 21 House Republicans sponsored the bill. But Wasilla Republican Jesse Sumner did signal that he could potentially support it.
Sumner chairs the House Labor and Commerce Committee, which will be the first committee to hear the legislation on Wednesday. He said that he wants to hear the bill before making a judgment, but that he would likely support it as a “statutory fix” for how the human rights commission operates. Previous efforts to pass similar legislation have met strong opposition from right-wing legislators and Christian conservative groups.previous legislative efforts to add sexual orientation and gender identity as special protected categories under Alaska’s anti-discrimination law, and said he would again. He alerted Taylor last year that the human rights commission was investigating cases based on those categories without legislation passing.
The Alaska Family Council believes anti-discrimination measures against LGBTQ people threaten religious liberty, privacy rights and freedom of expression. Dozens of people
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