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Idaho Bill Seeks to Nullify Local LGBTQ+ Anti-Discrimination Ordinances
The bill targets over a dozen Idaho cities with LGBTQ+ protections, aiming to impose statewide uniformity and potentially fine cities for LGBTQ+ pride displays, supporters say.
- On Wednesday, the Idaho House Local Government Committee introduced a bill banning local LGBTQ+ nondiscrimination policies in more than a dozen cities, sponsored by Nampa Republican state Rep. Bruce Skaug and moved by Rep. Marco Erickson, Idaho Falls Republican.
- Supporters say the bill aims to restore statewide uniformity, citing concerns that varying local rules create a 'tangled web of red tape' that burdens small business owners and threatens religious freedoms.
- Local records show since 2011, 13 Idaho cities including Boise/Ada County, Idaho Falls City Council, and Sandpoint passed nondiscrimination ordinances; Skaug said the bill also blocks some housing-related local measures.
- The committee vote to introduce Skaug's bill split along party lines, prompting Mistie DelliCarpini-Tolman and Rep. Steve Berch, Boise Democrat, to condemn it as stripping local control and overreach.
- On April 2, 2024, Rev. Sara LaWall led the heart-drop protest at the State Capitol rotunda, with activists using slogans like 'Let queer and trans people live in peace.
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Idaho Bill seeks to nullify local LGBTQ+ anti-discrimination ordinances
BOISE, Idaho (KIFI) — A new legislative push in the Idaho Statehouse could strip 13 cities of their ability to enforce local anti-discrimination ordinances that protect residents based on sexual orientation and gender identity. House Bill 557, introduced earlier this week, seeks to establish the "Uniformity in Local Antidiscrimination Ordinances Act." Sponsored by Rep. Bruce Skaug (R-Nampa) and written by the conservative Idaho Family Policy Cen…
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New Idaho bill would ban cities from banning LGBTQ+ discrimination
The bill would block local governments in Idaho from having more strict antidiscrimination policies than established in state law.
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