banned nonessential state-funded travel to the Lone Star State in 2017 after Texas passed a law allowing adoption and foster care agencies to discriminate against LGBTQ+ people and anyone else who offends their religious beliefs without losing state contracts or facing other consequences.
A California law passed in 2016 allows the state to bar its employees from making nonessential taxpayer-funded trips to states with anti-LGBTQ+ laws and add states to the list as needed.
Ten other states besides Texas are under the ban.Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, long known for his anti-LGBTQ+ activism, sought to have the California law declared unconstitutional. “California’s travel ban is an affront to the sovereignty of Texas — as well as the ten.