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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 ...
Question 6 (colloquially called the Maryland same-sex marriage referendum) is a referendum that appeared on the general election ballot for the U.S. state of Maryland to allow voters to approve or reject the Civil Marriage Protection Act—a bill legalizing same-sex marriage passed by the General Assembly in 2012. The referendum was approved by ...
The Comstock Law was a federal act passed by the United States Congress on March 3 as the Act for the "Suppression of Trade in, and Circulation of, Obscene Literature and Articles of Immoral Use". The Act criminalized usage of the U.S. Postal Service to send any of the following items: [ 28 ]
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 ...
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 sexual orientation and gender identity; Promotion of Equality and Prevention of Unfair Discrimination ...
The act was passed by the 42nd United States Congress and signed into law by United States President Ulysses S. Grant on April 20, 1871. The act was the last of three Enforcement Acts passed by the United States Congress from 1870 to 1871 during the Reconstruction Era to combat attacks upon the suffrage rights of African Americans. The statute ...
Last week, Maryland banned the sale of speculative tickets and Minnesota required the disclosure of all fees in ticket prices. “Not only has the U.S. House of Representatives moved to protect ...
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops have openly opposed the Equality Act which serves to address discrimination towards members of the LGBTQ+ community. They argued the Equality Act would threaten the religious freedom of Catholics, allow men into women's spaces, and jeopardize existing prohibitions to the federal funding of ...