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Sanders Signs Arkansas Trans Care Malpractice Bill Into Law
Legal experts have said the change could close access to gender-affirming care for children by making it nearly impossible for providers to get malpractice insurance. read more >
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Arkansas House Sends Governor Trans Care Malpractice Bill
The governor's office said she backs the bill, which would make it easier to sue doctors who provide gender-affirming treatment to minors. read more >
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Arkansas Senate OKs Bathroom Bill That Critics Call Extreme
The legislation goes even further than a North Carolina bathroom law that was enacted in 2016. read more >
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Transgender Laws Draw a Hot Spotlight
New restrictions on trangender minors have left the state a target of scorn and boycotts, and LGBTQ activists were calling the new legislation itself a hate crime. read more >
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No Big Backlash for States Passing Anti-Transgender Laws
Five states including Arkansas have passed laws or implemented executive orders limiting the ability of transgender youths to play sports or receive certain medical treatment — and there’s been little tangible repercussions. read more >
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Hutchinson Signs Medical Conscience Objections Law
Gov. Asa Hutchinson signs into law legislation allowing doctors to refuse to treat someone because of religious or moral objections. read more >
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Legisature Approves Conscience Objections for Doctors
The Arkansas Legislature approves a bill allowing doctors to refuse to treat someone due to religious or moral objections, sending it to the governor over complaints that would create a blanket right to discriminate against patients. read more >
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Arkansas Senate OKs Health Care Religious Objections Bill
The Arkansas Senate approves a measure allowing medical providers to refuse to treat someone because of their religious or moral beliefs, a move critics say will allow them to turn LGBTQ patients away. read more >
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Arkansas ‘Bathroom Bill’ Would Cover Government Buildings
An Arkansas lawmaker proposed prohibiting people from using bathrooms in government buildings that do not match their gender at birth. read more >
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Religious Objection Opt-Out for Arkansas Counselors Advances
A rule allowing counselors in Arkansas to refer patients to another provider over religious objections to treating them won initial approval Tuesday, sparking criticism. read more >
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Arkansas Businesses Ranked for LGBT Treatment
The Human Rights Campaign Foundation, the nation’s largest LGBT civil rights organization, released the 2016 Corporate Equality Index, an annual report assessing LGBT inclusion in major companies and law firms across the nation, including three in Arkansas. read more >
Little Rock Approves Anti-Discrimination Protections
Little Rock officials voted Tuesday to prohibit the city and companies contracting with it from discriminating based on sexual orientation or gender identity, challenging a new Arkansas law criticized as anti-gay. read more >
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Update: Asa Hutchinson Signs Revised Religious Objections Bill
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson has signed a revised version of a religious objections bill that supporters say addresses concerns that the original proposal sanctioned discrimination against gays and lesbians. read more >
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At Rally, Dustin McDaniel Opposes #HB1228
Several dozens of people, including former Attorney General Dustin McDaniel, have gathered in Little Rock to show their distaste for a proposed law that critics say would sanction discrimination against gays and lesbians. read more >
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#HB1228 Tests LGBT Economic Argument (Andrew DeMillo Analysis)
How the "Religious Freedom Restoration Act" is testing an effort by gay rights supporters to turn the fight over anti-discrimination laws and same-sex marriage into a financial debate, not a social one. read more >
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Apple CEO Tim Cook Joins in Chorus Against Religious Protection Bill
Arkansas is starting to hear from civil rights leaders and the CEOs if prominent tech firms about HB1228, a religious protection bill that was approved in the state Senate this afternoon and now heads back to the House. read more >
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Asa Hutchinson Says He’d Sign Religious Protection Bill
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson says he would sign into law a religious protection measure that opponents have said would open the door to state-sanctioned discrimination against gays and lesbians. read more >
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Group Touts Arkansas Businesses Promoting LGBT Diversity
A national group is touting more than 100 Arkansas businesses that it says are promoting diversity for gays and lesbians as it fights "conscience protection" legislation that critics say would justify discrimination. read more >
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Arkansas Senate OKs Bill to Bar Anti-discrimination Laws
The Arkansas Senate has approved legislation that would bar local governments from making it illegal to discriminate against someone based on their sexual orientation or gender identity. read more >
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Apple CEO Tim Cook Donating to Gay Rights Campaign in Arkansas, Alabama, Mississippi
Apple chief executive Tim Cook, the first openly gay CEO of a Fortune 500 company, is donating money to help fund a gay rights initiative in his native Alabama and two other Southern states, organizers said Thursday. read more >
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