HB139 Alabama 2025 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Rolanda Hollis Representative

Democrat

Session

2025 Regular Session

Title

Discrimination, unlawful to deny an individual full and equal enjoyment of public accommodations based on protected classes; unlawful for a local school board to discriminate against individual based on protected classes; unlawful for employer or labor organization board to discriminate against employee or member based on protected classes; state cause of action created

Description

Under existing state law, it is unlawful for any person to discriminate against an individual because of his or her race, color, religion, sex, or national origin with respect to housing.

Under existing state law, it is also unlawful for an employer to pay an employee at wage rates less than those paid to employees of another race or sex for substantially similar work.

Under existing state law, it is unlawful for an employer, employment agency, or labor organization to discriminate against a worker 40 years of age or over in hiring, job retention, compensation, or other terms or conditions of employment.

This bill would make it unlawful for a person to deny any individual full and equal enjoyment of public accommodations based upon certain protected classes.

This bill would also make it unlawful for a local school board to discriminate against any individual based upon certain protected classes.

This bill would make it unlawful for an employer or employment agency to discriminate against any individual based upon certain protected classes.

This bill would make it unlawful for a labor organization to exclude or expel from its membership, HB139 INTRODUCED or otherwise to discriminate against, any individual based upon certain protected classes.

This bill would also create a state cause of action against an employer, employment agency, or labor organization that discriminates against any individual based upon certain protected classes.

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Subjects

Discrimination & Civil Protections