Only this time, the Rs in the legislature want it to apply to women.
Maybe I should have titled this post "What's Old is New Again"...
Republican House member Lisa Fink has proposed/sponsored, and fellow Rs Rachel Keshel, Khyl Powell, and Michael Way have cosponsored, HB2062.
The bill itself is a bile-filled attack on trans people.
But "bile-filled" wasn't bad enough for this bunch.
They put a rather sweeping clause into the bill.
The bill will undergo consideration by the House Government committee this week.
Last year, most of this bill's language (the anti-trans stuff, anyway) existed as SB1628. It didn't include the separate but equal stuff.
It was vetoed by Governor Hobbs. Her veto letter is here.
My guess, and it's only a guess:
1) This year's bill will pass both committee and floor consideration (in both chambers) on party line votes.
2) The measure will serve as a stalking horse of sorts, with Rs hoping, that when Hobbs vetoes it again, she'll miss something that is marginally less bad (but still very bad).
