SENATE BILL: Atlasia says Trans Rights Act (Passed)

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

A final vote is now open on this legislation, Senators please vote Aye, Nay or Abstain.

[Dr. MB]

Aye

[Devout Centrist]

Aye

[ON Progressive]

Aye

[Pyro]

Aye

[Peanut]

Aye.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

AYE

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Technically this has 2 hours left, because when I did the Sunday update it was against a backdrop of a later work shift, since there are no nay votes, I am going to end this early.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Vote on Final Passage of the Atlasia says Trans Rights Act:


Aye (6): Devout Centrist, MB, NC Yankee, Ontario Progressive, Peanut and Pyro
Nay (0):
Abstain (0):

Didn't Vote (0):

With a unanimous vote this bill is now passed and sent to the VP for House action.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

SENATE BILL

To strengthen trans rights and fund their required treatment

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Congress assembled,

SECTION I. Definitions
1. A person known as Transgender shall be defined as someone with a gender identity or gender expression that differs from their sex assigned at birth.
2. A person known as Cisgender shall be defined as someone with a gender identity or gender expression that coincides with their sex assigned at birth.

SECTION II. The Cis Tax
1. The Federal Government of Atlasia shall levy a tax of 4 cents per $100 dollars on luxury items purchases across state lines.
a. Luxury items are defined as any tangible or intangible item with a fair market value of $100,000 or more
b. All housing purchases shall be excluded from the above tax
2. The Department of Health and Human Services shall establish a division, hereby referred to as the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health Agency (LGBTHA).
3. The funds raised by this tax shall be used to fund the LGBTHA.
4. The Department of Health and Human Services shall take all appropriate steps to fund healthcare for Atlasians who wish to medically transition their gender.

SECTION III. Further protecting Trans rights
1. No federal government agency shall discriminate against any Atlasian because of their sexual orientation or self identification.
2. Transgender Atlasians will not be denied housing, employment, etc. based on their self identified gender or status as transgender Atlasians.
3. Treatments for transgender Atlasians as prescribed by a certified psychologist shall be covered by AtlasCare, as defined in Section 2 of the Reforming and Regionalizing Public Healthcare Act of 2017

SECTION IV. Enactment
1. This bill shall become enacted immediately after passage

People's Regional Senate
Passed 6-0 in the Atlasian Senate Assembled,