Virginia House panel kills bill to add legal protections for gay state employees

Dan82 · Feb 17, 2011

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/virginiapolitics/2011/02/house_panel_kills_bill_to_add.html

Rosalind S. Helderman

A House of Delegates subcommittee has killed a proposal to write legal protections for gay state employees into Virginia law.

The same GOP-led panel killed similar legislation last year. Democrats had pushed the bill hard this year, in part in response to a letter that Attorney Gen. Ken Cuccinelli (R) delivered to colleges and universities last year instructing them that, in the absence of a decision by the General Assembly to write protections for gays into law, they could not include language dealing with sexual orientation in their campus non-discrimination policies...

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Virginia House panel kills bill to add legal protections for gay state employees

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