05 – AB 1400 – Civil Rights Act of 2005

Year: 2005

Category: Social/Political

Bill Description:

Codify in the Unruh Civil Rights Act case laws that prohibit public accommodations (business establishments) from discriminating based on sex/gender, sexual orientation, and marital status.

05 – SJR 11 – Resolution Supporting the Repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”

Year: 2005

Category: Social/Political, Workplace

Bill Description:

Joint resolution urging Congress and President Bush to lift the ban on openly LGBT servicemembers in the U.S. military.

05 – AB 1586 – Insurance Non-Discrimination Act

Year: 2005

Category: Medical, Social/Political

Bill Description:

Prohibit gender-based discrimination in health insurance.

05 – SB 973 – Domestic Partner Pension Death Benefit Legislation

Year: 2005

Category: Family, Workplace

Bill Description:

Provide retirement equity for domestic partners who retired from state or local government employment covered under CalPERS, CalSTRS, or the 1937 County Retirement Act prior to AB 205’s enactment.

04 – AB 2900 – Omnibus Labor and Employment Non-Discrimination Act

Year: 2004

Category: Workplace, Social/Political

Bill Description:

Various provisions of existing law prohibit discrimination in employment on different bases, including the race, color, sex, religion, and marital status of a person. This bill would amend those provisions to instead prohibit discrimination on the same bases as in the Fair Employment and Housing Act. Those bases are race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, marital status, sex, age, or sexual orientation.

04 – AB 2208 – California Insurance Equality Act

Year: 2004

Category: Medical, Social/Political

Bill Description:

This bill would require a health care service plan and a health insurer to provide coverage to the registered domestic partner of an employee, subscriber, insured, or policyholder that is equal to the coverage it provides to the spouse of those persons.

04 – AB 1967 – Marriage License Non-Discrimination Act

Year: 2004

Category: Family, Social/Political

Bill Description:

Prohibit discrimination by the State of California in the issuance of marriage licenses between opposite-sex couples and same-sex couples by eliminating the current “different-gender” requirement in the state’s definition of marriage.

04 – AJR 60 – Permanent Partners Immigration Act (PPIA)

Year: 2004

Category: Family, Social/Political

Bill Description:

Joint resolution supporting the federal Permanent Partners Immigration Act (PPIA).

04 – AJR 85 – Resolution Opposing A Federal Marriage Discrimination Amendment

Year: 2004

Category: Family, Social/Political

Bill Description:

Joint resolution opposing the discriminatory federal constitutional amendment to prohibit same-gender marriage.

03 – SB 774 – Syringe Sales

Year: 2003

Category: Medical, Social/Political

Bill Description:

This bill would authorize a licensed pharmacist to sell or furnish 30 or fewer hypodermic needles or syringes to a person for human use without a prescription.