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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 ...
Equality Maryland has three divisions, which share offices, staff, and other resources: two non-profit organizations, each of which has its own mission and board of directors, and a related political action committee. [2] Equality Maryland, Inc., is a 501(c)(4) advocacy organization focused on direct and grassroots lobbying to pass laws in to ...
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 ...
Equality Act 2006, an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom, a precursor to the Equality Act 2010; Equality Act 2010, an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom, with the same goals as the four major EU Equal Treatment Directives; Equality Act (United States), a bill in the United States Congress that would ban discrimination on the basis of ...
Maryland U.S. Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger announced Friday that he won’t seek a 12th term in Congress, meaning that at least three of the state's eight U.S. House seats will be open on the ...
Jett Hawkins Act (2021) Homeless Bill of Rights; Iowa Iowa Constitution, Article I, §1 (1998) Louisiana Louisiana Constitution, Article I, §3 (1975) CROWN Act (2023) Maine 2012 Maine Question 1; CROWN Act (2022) Maryland Maryland Constitution, Declaration of Rights, Article 46 (1972) Civil Marriage Protection Act (2012) CROWN Act (2020 ...
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.