Action Alert | anti-LGBT bill HB 2294 on the move
Take action today to stop unnecessary and divisive legislation in the House Government & Elections committee
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Wednesday morning at 9 AM, the House Government & Elections committee will meet to hear Representative Fillmore’s HB 2294, a regressive bill that limits the ability of the vital records department or any other “agency, board, commission or department of this state” to issue documents with a gender marker other than M or F.
Here’s the thing: these are already the only two options in Arizona, and Fillmore’s bill won’t change that. HB 2294 isn’t about adding or taking away alternatives, like the X gender marker available on U.S. passports and in 21 states. All this bill actually is, is Fillmore sending a signal that he’s seen what California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico have done to improve the lives of non-binary and intersex people, and he doesn’t want that for Arizona.
What you can do right now
Log in to Request to Speak to register your position against this bill, and then contact members of the House Government & Elections committee to ask them to vote no on unnecessary and divisive legislation that ties the hands of our state agencies.
Reginald Bolding, Jr. rbolding@azleg.gov | (602) 926-3132
Judy M. Burges: jburges@azleg.gov | (602) 926-3256
Frank P Carroll: fcarroll@azleg.gov | (602) 926-3249
John M. Fillmore: jfillmore@azleg.gov | (602) 926-3187
Alma Hernandez: ahernandez@azleg.gov | (602) 926-3136
Jake Hoffman (Vice-Chairman): jake.hoffman@azleg.gov | (602) 926-3292
Jennifer Jermaine: jjermaine@azleg.gov | (602) 926-3199
John Kavanagh (Chairman): jkavanagh@azleg.gov | (602) 926-5170
Sarah Liguori: sliguori@azleg.gov | (602) 926-3300
Teresa Martinez: tmartinez@azleg.gov | (602) 926-3158
Kevin Payne: kpayne@azleg.gov | (602) 926-4854
Lorenzo Sierra: lsierra@azleg.gov | (602) 926-3211
Christian Solorio: csolorio@azleg.gov | (602) 926-4864
Legislative Updates
January 31 is the deadline to introduce new bills in the Arizona Senate. We’ll reach the same deadline in the House on February 7.
The anti-LGBT bills HB 2161 and HB 2495 are on the agenda for the House Rules Committee meeting at 1 PM today.