11 – SJR 2 – LGB Veterans Fairness Resolution

Year: 2011

Category: Workplace, Social/Political

Bill Description:

Urge the President, Congress, and Secretary of Defense of the United States to end the policy of levying fines on lesbian, gay, and bisexual service members discharged under the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Don’t Pursue, Don’t Harass” policy.

11 – AB 887 – Gender Non-Discrimination Act

Year: 2011

Category: Social/Political, Workplace

Bill Description:

Add the terms “gender identity” and “gender expression” to state non-discrimination laws where only the term “gender” appears currently.

11 – AB 433 – Vital Statistics Modernization Act

Year: 2011

Category: Social/Political, Medical

Bill Description:

Allow a person who has undergone clinically appropriate treatment for the purpose of gender transition to file a petition in any superior court to recognize the change in gender and, if applicable, a name change and request for a new birth certificate.

11 – SB 182 – Judicial Applicant and Appointment Demographics Inclusion Act

Year: 2011

Category: Social/Political

Bill Description:

Expand demographic data relating to judicial applicants, judicial appointees or nominees, judicial candidates, and justices and judges to include the collection and release of demographic data relative to gender identity and sexual orientation.

11 – SB 416 – Survey Data Inclusion Act

Year: 2011

Category: Social/Political, Family

Bill Description:

Require, not later than January 1, 2015, appropriate, voluntary, demographic, self-identification questions related to sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, to domestic partnership and gender of one’s spouse to be included in the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) and the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS).

11 – SB 747 – LGBT Cultural Competency Training

Year: 2011

Category: Medical, Social/Political

Bill Description:

This bill would require physicians and surgeons, physician assistants, registered nurses, licensed vocational nurses, nurse practitioners, psychologists, marriage and family therapists, licensed clinical social workers, psychiatric technicians, and certified nurse assistants to complete at least one course of 2 to 5 hours in duration that provides instruction on cultural competency, sensitivity, and best practices for providing adequate care to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons.

11 – SB 757 – Insurance Non-Discrimination Act

Year: 2011

Category: Medical, Family

Bill Description:

This bill would specify that a plan or policy may not discriminate in coverage between spouses or domestic partners of a different sex and spouses or domestic partners of the same sex.

11 – SB 651 – Domestic Partnership Equality Act

Year: 2011

Category: Family, Social/Political

Bill Description:

Eliminate the requirement that domestic partners have a common residence in order to establish a registered domestic partnership (RDP), provide for confidential registration of domestic partnership, permit a person less than 18 years of age to enter a domestic partnership with the consent of a parent or guardian and a court order, and provide a forum for out-of-state same-sex couples who married in California to terminate their marriages.

11 – AB 1349 – Protection of Parent-Child Relationships Act

Year: 2011

Category: Family, Medical

Bill Description:

Protect parents in both same-sex and opposite-sex couples by clarifying that the courts can consider the relationship between the child and his or her biological and non-biological parents when they are asked to rule on the status of a child’s legal parents.

11 – SB 48 – FAIR Education Act

Year: 2011

Category: Educational, Social/Political

Bill Description:

This bill would update references to certain categories of persons and additionally would require instruction in social sciences to include a study of the role and contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans, persons with disabilities, and members of other cultural groups, to the development of California and the United States.