HB242 Alabama 2024 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Ben Harrison Representative

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2024

Title

Anti-discrimination against military.

Description

This bill would make it unlawful to discriminate against members of the active duty military and their immediate families in matters of education, employment, health insurance, retirement benefits, residential and auto leases, financial protection, public utilities, and public accommodations.

This bill would prohibit persons providing educational services from requiring increased application fees or tuition for service members and their immediate family members.

This bill would prohibit employers from taking adverse employment action based solely on military status against a servicemember or members of his or her immediate family.

This bill would require employers providing retirement benefits to treat employees, who are servicemembers returning from a period of active duty deployment, as though there was no break in employment.

This bill would prohibit a person from terminating a residential or auto lease while the lessee who is a servicemember is actively deployed.

This bill would require creditors to defer seeking default judgments and other collection activity against deployed servicemembers or their immediate HB242 INTRODUCED families during periods of active duty employment.

This bill would also create a private cause of action for discrimination under state law.

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Subjects

Military