GLBT
Equality
Agenda
The Hillsborough County GLBTA
Democratic Caucus recommends contacting your elected officials and asking them
to please co-sponsor local, state or federal
legislation. If no such
legislation exists, please ask your elected officials to introduce legislation
furthering the goal of GLBT equality.
Local Legislation
- Enact or strengthen City and County Human Rights
Ordinances
- City
- City of Tampa
- Ant-Discrimination
- Retain sexual orientation as a protected
category
- Retain gender identity and expression as
protected categories
- Domestic Partnership
- Retain domestic partnership benefits for city
workers
- Establish domestic partnership registry for
same-gender couples in the city limits
- Plant City and Temple TerraceHillsborough County
- Add sexual orientation and gender identity and
expression protections to anti-discrimination policy.
- Add domestic partnership benefits for city
workers and establish domestic partnership registry for same-gender
couples in the city limits
- County
- Hillsborough County Commission
- Add sexual orientation and gender identity and
expression protections to anti-discrimination policy.
- Add domestic partnership benefits for city
workers and establish domestic partnership registry for same-gender
couples in the city limits
- Hillsborough County School Board
- Add sexual orientation and gender identity and
expression protections to safe schools/anti-bullying ordinance.
- Contacts
- Tampa
-
Plant City
- Temple Terrace
- Hilllsborough County
State Legislation
(more information to come as legislation is introduced in the 2009 session)
- Repeal the ban on adoption by GLBT Floridians (Click
here for talking points for when you talk to your legislator!)
- Non-Discrimination (Click
here for talking points for when you talk to your legislator!)
- Education
- Add sexual orientation and gender identity and
expression as protected categories in Safe Schools/Anti-Bullying law.
- Comprehensive age-appropriate sex education
curriculum, including HIV/AIDS instruction
- Relationship recognition
- Domestic partnership/civil unions benefits for all
Floridians.
- Recognition of marriage of same-gender couples
performed in other states.
- Reversal of Amendment 2.
- Hate Crimes
- Expand hate crimes statute to include gender
identity and expression.
- Contacts
Federal Legislation
(more information to come as legislation is introduced in the 111th
Congress)
- Relationship Recognition and Family Law
- Pass the
Uniting American Families Act to allow GLBT Americans to sponsor their
foreign partners for immigration. (Click
here for talking points for when you talk to your House Rep and Sens
Lemieux and Nelson!)
- Pass the Reuniting Families Act, an overall
immigration bill which includes the above mentioned Uniting American
Families Act
- Pass the Every Child Deserves a Family Act to
prohibit discrimination in adoption or foster care placements based on the
sexual orientation, gender identification or marital status of any
prospective adoptive or foster parent.
- Health Care and Education
- Pass the
Responsible Education About Life Act to provide for comprehensive
sexuality education programs.
- Pass the
Early Treatment for HIV/AIDS Act to permit Medicaid programs to cover
low income HIV-positive Americans before they develop AIDS.
- Increase funding to combat HIV/AIDS by
harnessing all possible resources to
prevent new infections, provide meaningful access to quality care and
treatment, boost research to find a cure and address the global crisis.
- Pass the
Safe Schools Act to amend the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and
Communities Act (part of the No Child Left Behind Act) to require schools
and districts receiving federal funds to adopt codes of conduct
specifically prohibiting bullying and harassment, including on the basis
of sexual orientation and gender identity.