100 Pennsylvania Lawmakers offer sweeping LGBT Protection Bills

This is big stuff for Pennsylvania. 100 state lawmakers introduced bills HB 300/SB300, which would stop LGBT discrimination in employment, housing, credit and public accommodations.

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"These identical proposals have a common goal — to end, once and for all, the last vestige of legal discrimination in Pennsylvania based on an individual's sexual orientation or gender identity or expression," said state Rep. Dan Frankel (D-Squirrel Hill), a co-sponsor of HB300 with Republican state Rep. Chris Ross, and sponsor of the bill in previous years.

Frankel noted that its the first time the bills have had such broad, bipartisan support, with 77 sponsors in the House and 25 in the Senate.

"We believe today marks a significant step for LGBT equality in Pennsylvania," Frankel said.

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