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The original Equality Act was developed by U.S. Representatives Bella Abzug (D-NY) and Ed Koch (D-NY) in 1974. The Equality Act of 1974 (H.R. 14752 of the 93rd Congress) sought to amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to include prohibition of discrimination on the basis of sex, sexual orientation, and marital status in federally assisted programs, housing sales, rentals, financing, and brokerage ...
October 12, 1971 – The House of Representatives passes the ERA. [1] The vote is 354 in favor and 24 opposed. [3] March 22, 1972 – The Senate passes the ERA. This version of the amendment reads: Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. [2]
The resolution, "Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to equal rights for men and women", reads, in part: [1] Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States ...
[12] [13] [14] After a committee in the Maryland House of Delegates voted in March 2004 to reject a pair of marriage bills that would have submitted a constitutional amendment against same-sex marriage to voters and invalidated same-sex marriages performed in another state or foreign country, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and ...
During the 114th United States Congress, the caucus formed the Transgender Equality Task Force (TETF) and the LGBTQ+ Aging Issues Task Force. The TETF is currently chaired by Pramila Jayapal and Sara Jacobs and is committed to pushing for legislative and administrative action to ensure that transgender people are treated equally and with ...
Trone, who has represented Maryland’s 6th District since 2019, is the top fundraiser in the race to represent Maryland in the Senate, having raised almost $10 million, according to data reported ...
Gender-affirming treatment in Maryland would be protected from criminal and civil actions brought by other states under a measure approved Tuesday by the state Senate. The Democrat-controlled ...
The United States Air Force veteran Ellis compared Maryland and the U.S. to Europe, where a data privacy law, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), went into effect in 2018.