Last updated 12/17/2021
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in America continue to face discrimination in their daily lives. While more states every year work to pass laws to protect LGBTQ people, we continue to see state legislatures advancing bills that target transgender people, limit local protections, and allow the use of religion to discriminate.
*Note: Bills are reported as Active below if they were introduced in their states' 2020 legislative sessions and have carried over to 2021. The status date indicates the convening of the state's 2021 session or the most current activity on a particular bill.
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Anti-LGBTQ Bills:Anti-Trans Bills
These measures target transgender and nonbinary people for discrimination, such as by barring or criminalizing healthcare for transgender youth, barring access to the use of appropriate facilities like restrooms, restricting transgender students鈥� ability to fully participate in school and sports, allowing religiously-motivated discrimination against trans people, or making it more difficult for trans people to get identification documents with their name and gender.
a. Prohibiting healthcare for transgender youth
State
Bill Number
Status
AL
Died
Indefinitely postponed 5/6/21
Prefiled for 2022; will be read for first time 1/11/22
AR
Died in Senate Committee at Sine Die adjournment 10/15/21
Signed into law 4/13/21
AZAssigned to committee and read the second time 2/2/21
FL
Died in subcommittee 4/30/21
Prefiled for 2022; referred to committee 10/6/21
GARead for the second time 2/16/21IAIntroduced and referred to committee 1/22/21
IN
Died in committee 2/23/21KSIntroduced and referred to committee 2/3/21
KY
Died 4/2/21
Died 4/2/21
LA
Referred to committee 4/12/21
Read for the second time and referred to commitee 4/12/21
MO
Motion to pass failed 5/12/21
MS
Died in committee 2/2/21
MT
Died in process 4/29/21NCRead for the first time and referred to committee 4/6/21OHIntroduced 10/19/21OK
Read for the second time and referred to committee 2/2/21
Read for the second time and referred to committee 2/2/21
SC
Read for the first time and referred to committee 1/12/21
Referred to committee 3/9/21
TN
Referred to committee 2/11/21
Deferred to 2022
TX
Read for the first time and referred to committee 2/25/21
Placed on general state calendar 5/12/21
Read for the third time and passed in Senate 4/28/21;
Referred to committee in House 5/3/21
UT
Died 3/5/21
WV
Referred to committee 2/10/21
b. Single-Sex Facility Restrictions
State
Bill Number
Status
AR
Died 10/15/21
Readfor the second time and referred to committee 4/12/21
TN
Signed by Governor 5/14/21
Substituted for companion House bill 4/21/21
Signed by Governor 5/17/21
Companion House bill substitute 4/29/21
c. Excluding transgender youth from athletics
State
Bill Number
Status
AL
Signed by Governor AR
Died 10/15/21
Signed by Governor 3/29/21
Signed by Governor 4/29/21
AZ
Read for the first time 6/30/21
CT
Referred to committee 1/25/21
Referred to committee 1/29/21
FL
Died in subcommittee 4/30/21
Died in committee 4/30/21
Died in committee 4/30/21
Approved by Governor 6/1/22
GA
Read for the second time 2/8/21
Read for the second time 2/11/21
Read for the second time 3/5/21
HIReferred to committee 2/1/21 IAIntroduced and referred to committee 1/22/21
KS
Postponed until 2022
KY
Died 4/2/21
Died 4/2/21
LA
Referred to commitee 4/12/21
Senate voted to override the Governor's veto 7/20/21; House failed to override the Governor's veto 7/21/21
MEDied 7/19/21
MI
Referred to committee 3/10/21
MN
Referred to committee 1/28/21
Referred to committee 1/28/21
Referred to committee 2/25/21
MO
Referred to committee 2/18/21
Referred to committee 2/18/21
Read for the second time and referred to committee 3/4/21
Read for the second time and referred to committee 6/26/21
Prefiled 12/1/21
MSApproved by Governor 3/11/21
MT
Signed by Governor 5/7/21
ND
Filed with Secretary of State 4/27/21
NH
Executive Session 10/14/21
NJ
Introduced and referred to committee 3/11/21
NM
Referred to committee 2/18/21
OH
Referred to committee 2/4/21
Referred to committee 3/17/21
Passed with amendments 6/24/21
OK
Read for the second time and referred to committee 2/2/21
Passed in Senate 3/1/21;
Passed in House 4/20/21
PAReferred to committee 4/5/21
SC
Referred to committee 2/9/21
Prefiled and referred to committee 11/17/21
SD
Veto override failed 3/29/21
TN
Signed by Governor 3/26/21
Signed by Governor 3/26/21
TX
Passed in Senate 4/15/21;
Read for the second time in House 5/25/21
Read for the first time and referred to committee 3/9/21
Read for the first time and referred to committee 3/5/21
Read for the first time and referred to committee 3/22/21
Left pending in committee 4/20/21
Read for the first time and referred to committee 3/29/21
Filed 1st Special Session; died 8/6/21
Filed 3rd Special Session; referred to comittee 9/27/21
Signed by Governor 10/25/21
UT
Died 3/5/21
Prefiled 12/13/21
WI
Read for the third time and passed in Assembly 6/16/21;
Read for the first time and referred to committee in Senate 6/21/21
Read for the third time and passed in Assembly 6/16/21;
Read for the first time and referred to committee in Senate 6/21/21
Public hearing held 5/26/21
Public hearing held 5/26/21
WV
Referred to committee 2/10/21
Referred to committee 2/23/21
Referred to committee 2/24/21
Signed by Governor 4/28/21
Referred to committee 2/18/21
d. Restrictions on Identification Documents
State
Bill Number
Status
MT
/SB 280
Signed by Governor 4/30/21
SD
Died in committee 2/5/21 e. Other school or curriculum restrictions
State
Bill Number
Status
AZ
Prefiled 12/7/21MO
Prefiled 12/1/21
Prefiled 12/1/21
OK Active 2/7/22SC Prefiled and referred to committee 12/6/21f. Other Anti-Trans bills
State
Bill Number
Status
AR
Died 10/15/21AZRead for the second time 2/3/21IA
Subcommittee recommends passage 2/16/21
Introduced and referred to committee 1/27/21
Introduced and referred to committee 2/2/21
KY
Died 4/2/21
ND
Withdrawn from further consideration 1/21/21
SC
Prefiled and referred to committee 11/17/21
Religious Exemption Billsa. Religious Freedom Restoration Acts (RFRAs)
State
Bill Number
Status
AR
Died 10/15/21
Reviewed by Governor 4/30/21
IA
Introduced 1/22/21
Subcommittee recommends passage 3/2/21
IN
Died in committee 2/23/21
MT
Signed by Governor 4/22/21
NH
Passed with amendment in House 4/9/21;
Referred to committee in Senate 5/25/21
SD
Signed by the Governor 3/10/21WVReferred to committee 2/16/21WYDid not consider for introduction 3/8/21
b. Religious Exemptions in Healthcare Implicating LGBTQ People
State
Bill Number
Status
AR
Signed by Governor 3/29/21
KY
Died 4/2/21MTDied in process 4/29/21NCReferred to committee 4/6/21
NM
Introduced and referred to committee 2/1/21
SC
Introduced, read for the first time, and referred to committee 1/12/21
SD
Committee vote failed 2/24/21
TX
Placed on general sate calendar 5/13/21
Read for the first time and referred to committee 3/24/21
Introduced 1st Special Session 7/7/21
c. Religious Exemptions in Adoption & Foster Care
State
Bill Number
Status
IA
Introduced 1/22/21
KY
Died 4/2/21SCIntroduced, read for the first time, and referred to committee 2/11/21WVIntroduced and referred to committee 2/10/21
d. Religious Exemptions in Schools and Student Organizations
State
Bill Number
Status
MO
Read for the second time and referred to committee 2/4/21
e. Other Religious Exemption Bills
State
Bill Number
Status
IAIntroduced and referred to committee 1/22/21
MA
Referred to committee in House 3/29/21;
Concurred in Senate 3/29/21
ND
Withdrawn from further consideration 1/21/21
Bills Pre-Empting Local Protections
These bills prevent cities and other local government entities from passing nondiscrimination protections that are more expansive than the protections offered at the state level, including protections for LGBTQ people.
Other Anti-LGBTQ Bills
State
Bill Number
Status
AR
Delivered to Governor 4/1/21
IN
Read for the second time 2/22/21
IN
Read for the first time and referred to committee 1/11/21
MO
Referred to committee 3/4/21
Prefiled 12/1/21
OK
Read for the second time and referred to committee 2/2/21
Second reading referred to commitee 2/13/21
TN
Passed on second consideration and referred to committee 2/22/21
Signed by Governor 5/3/21
Comparable Senate bill substituted 4/14/21
WI
Referred to committee 3/16/21
Read the second time and referred to committee 3/16/21
LGBTQ Equality Bills
a. Nondiscrimination protections
State
Bill Number
Status
AK
Referred to committee 5/5/21IDReferred to committee 1/25/21
KY
Died 4/2/21
Died 4/2/21
MO
Prefiled 12/1/21
Prefiled 12/21/21
MS
Died in committee 2/2/21
Died in committee 2/2/21
Died in committee 2/2/21
NE
Hearing scheduled 2/26/21
SC
Referred to committee 1/12/21
TX
Read for the first time and referred to committee 3/3/21
Read for the first time and referred to committee 2/25/21
Placed on general state calendar 5/13/21
b. Protections in healthcare
State
Bill Number
Status
HI
Referred to committee 1/27/21
WA
Signed by Governor 5/12/21
c. Allowing updated gender markers on ID
State
Bill Number
Status
AZ
Read for the second time 1/19/21
CA
Enrolled and presented to the Governor 9/17/21
Approved by the Governor 7/9/21
IL
Read for the third time and passed in the House 4/20/21;
Referred to committee in Senate 7/16/21MABill reported favorably by committee and referred to another committee in House 7/28/21; Concurred in Senate 3/29/21MIIntroduced and referred to committee on 9/29/21
NH
Heard on the floor 4/7/21
NY
Signed by Governor 6/25/21OKReferred for second reading 2/2/21
TX
Read for the first time and referred to committee 3/3/21
Read for the first time and referred to committee 2/25/21
d. Sex work decriminalization bills
State
Bill Number
Status
CARead for the third time and amended 9/12/21CTReferred to committee 1/28/21
NY
Referred to committee 1/6/21
Referred to committee 1/27/21
Referred to committee 1/26/21
e. Other good bills
State
Bill Number
Status
AZRead for the first time 5/24/21CA
Ordered to inactive file 9/9/21
Approved by the Governor on 9/16/21
Hearing canceled 4/5/21
Hearing 5/20/21
HIPassed second reading as amended and referred to committee 2/19/21NEActive 1/5/22
NY
/
Amended and recommitted to Correction 5/13/21