AK: New anti-discrimination bill proposes housing protections for more Alaskans
Anchorage Democratic Rep. Jennie Armstrong, one of three newly elected LGBTQ members of the Alaska Legislature, has introduced a new proposal to ban housing discrimination based on sex or sexual orientation.
House Bill 99 is scheduled for a hearing Wednesday in the House Labor and Commerce Committee.
The bill’s introduction on Wednesday came days after the Anchorage Daily News published an article noting that the state of Alaska had dropped a policy that banned most forms of discrimination against LGBTQ people here.
Armstrong said this week that the timing was coincidental — since she took office this year, the anti-discrimination bill has been a priority, and in the coming weeks, she hopes to make an economic and business case for the change.
“I think that there’s a gut reaction that people have when they hear ‘LGBTQ’ or ‘abortion.’ Those are just two issues that are just throwing a grenade,” she said.
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