Not to be left out in the season of hatred and bile that is the modern GOP flood of bigotry used as cover for naked corruption, greed and oppression — the IL GOP KKKrisitian Coalition of Professional White People (IL GOP) has introduced IL HB4474. They want their own “bathroom panic” hatred laws to punish queer people and now they have it.
The way this works is that it will start in the current format, and then all the provisions to eliminate rights for Union workers, employees and Democratic voters will be added later.
“Moderate” GOP Governor Rauner will sign it gladly.
Public hearing will be hosted by the Human Services Committee Hearing Apr 5 2016 8:00AM Stratton Building Room C-1 Springfield, IL
The dreadful people sponsoring this criminal behavior masked in bigotry and bile are:
House Sponsors
Rep. Thomas Morrison - Mary E. Flowers, Sheri Jesiel, Mark Batinick, Dwight Kay, Jeanne M Ives, Bill Mitchell, John M. Cabello, Reginald Phillips, John D. Anthony, Barbara Wheeler, C.D. Davidsmeyer, Keith R. Wheeler, David B. Reis, Adam Brown, Charles Meier, Randy E. Frese, Joe Sosnowski, Terri Bryant, Avery Bourne, John Cavaletto, Anthony DeLuca, Michael W. Tryon, Tim Butler, Brandon W. Phelps, Jerry Costello, II and John Bradley
h/t to Kerri Barber for telling me about this. Here is her post about it in facebook:
North Carolina’s new discrimination law is nothing more than a ruse for corporate agribusiness. They are using the religious right against other working people and children. This sounds like a bias on transgender persons’ rights to privacy, which is eerily familiar to the arguments we are having here in Cary Grove High School, but let’s take a look at what this bill really does.
Here is what the bill says: NC HB2 ncleg.net/...
PART II. STATEWIDE CONSISTENCY IN LAWS RELATED TO EMPLOYMENT AND CONTRACTING SECTION 2.1. “The provisions of this Article supersede and preempt any ordinance, regulation, resolution, or policy adopted or imposed by a unit of local government or other political subdivision of the State that regulates or imposes any requirement upon an employer pertaining to compensation of employees, such as the wage levels of employees, hours of labor, payment of earned wages, benefits, leave, or well-being of minors in the workforce…”
This is Insidious and wrong. Not only does this law do NOTHING to protect women from predators, it strips away the rights of transgender persons AND the disabled, veterans and children. Pay attention because this is happening all across the country.
According to sections 3.2 and 3.3 of the bill, “no person may bring any civil action” if they experience discrimination, even where discrimination is explicitly banned. You may not sue in state court for ANY case involving discrimination, including for age, being a veteran or disabled status. You have to go through federal court which is harder and more costly; expensive enough to prohibit the average person from exercising their rights. If your rights are limited by your net worth, that isn’t Equal Protection.
Attack on Children So why include that piece on child labor? Look at the big picture: Child labor laws in NC have not changed since 1938 when they were crafted to protect children who worked on their own family farms, not industrial farms. This new law protects the status quo.
While the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 sets the minimum working age at 14, the law allows children ages 12–14 to work in the agricultural industry as accompanied minors or with parental consent, but in North Carolina, it is LEGAL for children as young as 10 to be a paid employee in agriculture and WORK 14 HOURS A DAY.
Some have tried to end this practice. House Bill 838, "Protect Youth/ Family Farm Employment” received bipartisan support to provide requirements for businesses to give child farm workers rest breaks, limit hazardous tasks and cap their work hours and prohibit interference with school as it is with other industries. That proposed legislation never went for a vote. And now, with the passage of NC HB2, even if it passed, it could not be enforced. NCHB2 ~supersedes~ it and nullifies any protections it may offer.
If you consider yourself a Christian, if you consider yourself a Republican – can you still stand with these people and refuse to acknowledge the humanity of others? You are being used, your fear being preyed upon and it is costing us everything.
Pay attention because these attacks on our rights have already begun right here at home.
Up Rooted Innocence: vimeo.com/...
Here is the full text of HB4474 in all its criminal hatred:
99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2015 and 2016 HB4474
Introduced , by Rep. Thomas Morrison
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 105 ILCS 5/10-20.58 new 105 ILCS 5/34-18.50 new
Amends the School Code. Requires a school board to designate each pupil restroom, changing room, or overnight facility accessible by multiple pupils simultaneously, whether located in a public school building or located in a facility utilized by the school for a school-sponsored activity, for the exclusive use of pupils of only one sex. Defines "sex" as the physical condition of being male or female, as determined by an individual's chromosomes and identified at birth by that individual's anatomy. Provides that no member of the female sex may use a pupil restroom or changing room that has been designated by the school board for the exclusive use of the male sex and no member of the male sex may use a pupil restroom or changing room that has been designated by the school board for the exclusive use of the female sex, with exceptions. Authorizes a school board to provide reasonable accommodations to a pupil to use a single-occupancy restroom or changing room or the regulated use of a faculty restroom or changing room if the pupil, if the pupil is an adult or an emancipated minor, or the parent or guardian of a minor pupil submits to school officials, in writing, a request to receive such accommodations and the pupil is a member of the male sex but does not identify as a member of the male sex or the pupil is a member of the female sex but does not identify as a member of the female sex. Sets forth a complaint procedure.
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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
A BILL FOR
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1 AN ACT concerning education, which may be referred to as 2 the Child Privacy Act.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The School Code is amended by adding Sections
6 10-20.58 and 34-18.50 as follows:
7 (105 ILCS 5/10-20.58 new)
8 Sec. 10-20.58. Pupil physical privacy.
9 (a) In this Section:
10 "Changing room" means a room or area, with or without
11 stalls for individual use, designated for a person to change
12 his or her clothes and includes a locker room, shower room, or
13 dressing room.
14 "Sex" means the physical condition of being male or female,
15 as determined by an individual's chromosomes and identified at
16 birth by that individual's anatomy.
17 (b) A school board shall designate each pupil restroom,
18 changing room, or overnight facility accessible by multiple
19 pupils simultaneously, whether located in a public school
20 building or located in a facility utilized by the school for a
21 school-sponsored activity, for the exclusive use of pupils of 22 only one sex. 23 (c) A school board may establish policies for special
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1 events, including athletic events, during which the school 2 board may temporarily redesignate a pupil restroom or changing 3 room. Upon the conclusion of the special event, the pupil
4 restroom or changing room shall revert to the designation under
5 subsection (b) of this Section.
6 (d) Except as provided in subsection (c) of this Section,
7 no member of the female sex may use a pupil restroom or
8 changing room that has been designated by the school board for
9 the exclusive use of the male sex, and no member of the male
10 sex may use a pupil restroom or changing room that has been
11 designated by the school board for the exclusive use of the
12 female sex. The prohibition under this subsection (d) does not
13 apply to a child under the age of 7 who is being assisted by a
14 parent, guardian, or family member or to a person providing
15 assistance to a person with a disability.
16 (e) A school board may provide reasonable accommodations to
17 a pupil to use a single-occupancy restroom or changing room or
18 the regulated use of a faculty restroom or changing room if the
19 following conditions are met:
20 (1) The pupil, if the pupil is an adult or an
21 emancipated minor, or the parent or guardian of a minor
22 pupil submits to school officials, in writing, a request to
23 receive accommodations under this subsection (e). This
24 request is considered a school student record that is 25 exempt from inspection and copying under subsection (r) of 26 Section 7.5 of the Freedom of Information Act.
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1 (2) One of the following applies: 2 (A) The pupil is a member of the male sex but does 3 not identify as a member of the male sex.
4 (B) The pupil is a member of the female sex but
5 does not identify as a member of the female sex.
6 (f) If a school board receives a written complaint from a
7 pupil enrolled in the school district or from the parent or
8 guardian of a pupil enrolled in the district regarding a
9 violation of this Section, the school board shall, within 30
10 days, investigate and attempt to resolve the complaint.
11 (g) The pupil or the parent or guardian of the pupil who
12 submitted a written complaint under subsection (f) of this
13 Section may bring a claim in the circuit court of the county in
14 which the school is located for any of the following if the
15 complaint is not resolved to the satisfaction of the pupil or
16 the pupil's parent or guardian:
17 (1) Declaratory relief.
18 (2) Injunctive relief.
19 (3) Damages, including the reimbursement of reasonable
20 attorney's fees.
21 (105 ILCS 5/34-18.50 new)
22 Sec. 34-18.50. Pupil physical privacy.
23 (a) In this Section: 24 "Changing room" means a room or area, with or without 25 stalls for individual use, designated for a person to change
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1 his or her clothes and includes a locker room, shower room, or 2 dressing room. 3 "Sex" means the physical condition of being male or female,
4 as determined by an individual's chromosomes and identified at
5 birth by that individual's anatomy.
6 (b) The board shall designate each pupil restroom, changing
7 room, or overnight facility accessible by multiple pupils
8 simultaneously, whether located in a public school building or
9 located in a facility utilized by the school for a
10 school-sponsored activity, for the exclusive use of pupils of
11 only one sex.
12 (c) The board may establish policies for special events,
13 including athletic events, during which the board may
14 temporarily redesignate a pupil restroom or changing room. Upon
15 the conclusion of the special event, the pupil restroom or
16 changing room shall revert to the designation under subsection
17 (b) of this Section.
18 (d) Except as provided in subsection (c) of this Section,
19 no member of the female sex may use a pupil restroom or
20 changing room that has been designated by the board for the
21 exclusive use of the male sex, and no member of the male sex
22 may use a pupil restroom or changing room that has been
23 designated by the board for the exclusive use of the female
24 sex. The prohibition under this subsection (d) does not apply 25 to a child under the age of 7 who is being assisted by a parent, 26 guardian, or family member or to a person providing assistance
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1 to a person with a disability. 2 (e) The board may provide reasonable accommodations to a 3 pupil to use a single-occupancy restroom or changing room or
4 the regulated use of a faculty restroom or changing room if the
5 following conditions are met:
6 (1) The pupil, if the pupil is an adult or an
7 emancipated minor, or the parent or guardian of a minor
8 pupil submits to school officials, in writing, a request to
9 receive accommodations under this subsection (e). This
10 request is considered a school student record that is
11 exempt from inspection and copying under subsection (r) of
12 Section 7.5 of the Freedom of Information Act.
13 (2) One of the following applies:
14 (A) The pupil is a member of the male sex but does
15 not identify as a member of the male sex.
16 (B) The pupil is a member of the female sex but
17 does not identify as a member of the female sex.
18 (f) If the board receives a written complaint from a pupil
19 enrolled in the school district or from the parent or guardian
20 of a pupil enrolled in the district regarding a violation of
21 this Section, the board shall, within 30 days, investigate and
22 attempt to resolve the complaint.
23 (g) The pupil or the parent or guardian of the pupil who
24 submitted a written complaint under subsection (f) of this 25 Section may bring a claim in the circuit court of the county in 26 which the school is located for any of the following if the
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1 complaint is not resolved to the satisfaction of the pupil or 2 the pupil's parent or guardian: 3 (1) Declaratory relief.
4 (2) Injunctive relief. 5 (3) Damages, including the reimbursement of reasonable 6 attorney's fees.