2021 Senate Bill 208

Expand civil rights law "protected class" status to sexual orientation and “gender expression”

Introduced in the Senate

March 9, 2021

Introduced by Sen. Jeremy Moss (D-11)

To add “sexual orientation” and “gender identity or expression” to the characteristics that define membership in a protected class, against which it is a crime to discriminate under the state’s Elliott-Larsen civil rights law. This would make it a crime to deny employment, housing, use of public accommodations, public services, and educational facilities to another person on the basis of an individual’s assertion of a particular sexual orientation or gender identity.

Referred to the Committee on Government Operations