Bill would expand Arkansas civil rights law to LGBT people

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     (AP) – A group of Democratic lawmakers has filed legislation

that would expand Arkansas’ civil rights law to cover sexual orientation and

gender identity.

     The bill filed Wednesday comes less than a week after the state Supreme Court

struck down a Fayetteville ordinance banning discrimination against lesbian,

gay, bisexual and transgender people.

     The court ruled that the city ordinance violated a state law preventing cities

and counties from enacting discrimination protections on a basis not covered in

state law. Fayetteville was among several cities that passed anti-discrimination

ordinances in response to the 2015 law

     Arkansas’ civil rights law currently doesn’t cover sexual orientation or

gender identity.




   

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