Search results for "Virginia House of Delegates"
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Equality Virginia enlists pro-LGBTQ business coalition
Equality Virginia has launched a new program enlisting support from the commonwealth’s business community as the organization attempts to amend Virginia’s laws to prohibit discrimination...
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Danica Roem earns progressive group’s endorsement for Virginia House seat
Roem is the first transgender candidate endorsed by the Progressive Change Campaign Committee
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Virginia Democrats sustain McAuliffe’s veto of anti-LGBTQ bills
The Virginia House of Delegates and Senate sustained vetoes of two so-called “religious freedom” measures that would have permitted discrimination against LGBTQ people and same-sex...
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Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe pledges to keep vetoing anti-LGBTQ legislation
"We’re stopping people from doing things that discriminate against people’s basic rights."
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2 pro-equality bills move to Virginia House as advocates hold Day of Action
Two pro-equality bills that passed the Virginia Senate with unanimous support from Democrats and one-third of the Republican Senate caucus have been assigned to a...
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Virginia House passes anti-LGBTQ “religious freedom” marriage exemption bill
Gov. McAuliffe vetoed a similar bill last year
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Virginia Senate committee approves pro-LGBT employment and fair housing bills
For the second year in a row, a Virginia Senate committee approved two nondiscrimination bills seeking to make LGBT Virginian’s lives a little easier. On...
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Virginia House committee to consider anti-LGBT bills on Thursday
A General Laws subcommittee will consider several measures involving LGBT rights
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Virginia Republicans introduce 3 more bills targeting LGBT community
Some Virginia lawmakers seem intent on testing Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s promise to veto any anti-LGBT legislation that lands on his desk. In the past week,...
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Virginia LGBT advocates call on General Assembly to nix bathroom bill
LGBT advocates and allies are calling on legislative leaders within the General Assembly from both political parties to reject a bill that seeks to restrict...
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Del. Bob Marshall introduces bathroom bill in Virginia
Virginia lawmakers may spend their time during the 2017 legislative session debating a “bathroom bill” that would impose North Carolina-style restrictions on public sex-specific restrooms...
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Virginia subcommittee kills equal employment and fair housing bills
A Republican-led Virginia House of Delegates subcommittee killed two nondiscrimination bills that passed the Senate with bipartisan support, referring them to the Code Commission of...
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Anti-gay “religious freedom” bills pass Virginia House and Senate
Respective bills head to opposite legislative chambers, even as Gov. McAuliffe promises vetoes
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Virginia House subcommittee punts on LGBT bills
A Virginia House of Delegates subcommittee voted 5-2, along party lines, to table a number of LGBT-related bills this week, shuffling them off to the Code Commission...
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Virginia Senate passes pair of nondiscrimination bills
The Virginia Senate on Friday passed a pair of nondiscrimination bills with bipartisan support, sending them to the House of Delegates for consideration. The Senate voted to...
