FreeState Justice on Monday announced part of its 2021 advocacy agenda includes LGBTQ measures that failed in the Maryland General Assembly’s previous session that ended early due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The group’s 2021 agenda includes a carryover of a bill to ban the so-called panic defense, a default publication waiver for name change notices and an LGBTQ-inclusive nondiscrimination measure that would protect individuals in long-term care facilities.
Other bills FreeState Justice will track include legislation to make it easier for transgender and non-binary spouses and parents to update their marriage and birth certificates, a Youth and Families Protection Act to ensure foster care agencies do not discriminate based on sexual