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The Equal Access to Intrastate Commerce Act is a 2011
Tennessee Tennessee ( , ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States. Tennessee is the 36th-largest by area and the 15th-most populous of the 50 states. It is bordered by Kentucky to th ...
act that amends the Tennessee Human Rights Act to define the term "sex" to mean an individual person as male or female as indicated on the individual's birth certificate and prohibits, with exception to employees of a local government, any local government in Tennessee from enacting ordinances, resolutions, or any other means impose on or make applicable to any person an anti-discrimination practice, standard, definition, or provision that is not covered by statewide anti-discrimination laws.


Background

In April 2011, the Council of Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County amended chapter 4.28 of the Metropolitan Code in response, according to the preamble of the amendment, adding sexual orientation and gender identity to the classes of persons protected by equal opportunity provisions applicable to government contractors.


Legislative history

On May 12, 2011, the state
Tennessee State Senate The Tennessee Senate is the upper house of the U.S. state of Tennessee , Tennessee's state legislature, which is known formally as the Tennessee General Assembly. The Tennessee Senate has the power to pass resolutions concerning essentially any ...
voted 20-8 in favor of HB 600. On May 18, 2011, the
Tennessee House of Representatives The Tennessee House of Representatives is the lower house of the Tennessee General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Tennessee. Constitutional requirements According to the state constitution of 1870, this body is to consis ...
voted 70-26 in favor of the bill. On May 23, 2011, Governor
Bill Haslam William Edward Haslam (; born August 23, 1958) is an American billionaire businessman and politician who served as the 49th governor of Tennessee from 2011 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, Haslam previously served as the 67th mayor of ...
signed the bill into law. On May 31, 2011, it became Public Chapter 278.Equal Access to Interstate Commerce Act
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''Lisa Howe, et al. v. Bill Haslam''

On November 4, 2014, in the case of ''Lisa Howe, et al. v. Bill Haslam'', the
Tennessee Court of Appeals The Tennessee Court of Appeals (in case citation, Tenn. Ct. App.) was created in 1925 by the Tennessee General Assembly as an intermediate appellate court to hear appeals in civil cases from the Tennessee state trial courts. Appeals of judgments m ...
dismissed the claims of the plaintiffs Wesley Roberts and the Gay/Straight Alliance of Hume-Fogg Academic Magnet High School for lack of standing.Lisa Howe, et al. v. Bill Haslam
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See also

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LGBT rights in Tennessee Lesbian, gay, Bisexuality, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Tennesseans face some legal challenges that non-LGBT Tennesseans do not. Same-sex sexual activity is legal in the state. Marriage licenses have been issued to same-sex couples in Tennes ...
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State bans on local anti-discrimination laws in the United States In United States law, state preemption is the invalidation of some action by, or the wresting of power from, a portion of the state government (more often than not a municipality or other part of the state government that only exercises power withi ...


References

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