Post by pavel on Feb 8, 2016 23:16:28 GMT -6
State House leaders on Monday packed a subcommittee with nonmembers to help vote down a bid to extend civil rights protections to gay, lesbian and transgender Georgians.
A House Judiciary subcommittee voted 6-4 to defeat an amendment from state Rep. Taylor Bennett, D-Brookhaven, to bar discrimination in Georgia based on “religion, national origin, sex, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, or veteran’s status.”
The panel then agreed by voice vote to pass House Bill 849 on to the full Judiciary Committee, which will take it up Tuesday.
“I’m a little bit concerned with this amendment at this time,” said the subcommittee’s chairman, state Rep. Johnnie Caldwell Jr., R-Thomaston. “If we define people and set out groups without having groups defined in the bill, we may leave somebody behind. I’m a little bit dubious at this time as to why we need the amendment now.”
Read more: www.ajc.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/packed-panel-votes-against-protections-for-lgbt-pr/nqL4q/
A House Judiciary subcommittee voted 6-4 to defeat an amendment from state Rep. Taylor Bennett, D-Brookhaven, to bar discrimination in Georgia based on “religion, national origin, sex, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, or veteran’s status.”
The panel then agreed by voice vote to pass House Bill 849 on to the full Judiciary Committee, which will take it up Tuesday.
“I’m a little bit concerned with this amendment at this time,” said the subcommittee’s chairman, state Rep. Johnnie Caldwell Jr., R-Thomaston. “If we define people and set out groups without having groups defined in the bill, we may leave somebody behind. I’m a little bit dubious at this time as to why we need the amendment now.”
Read more: www.ajc.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/packed-panel-votes-against-protections-for-lgbt-pr/nqL4q/