Gay and Trans Panic Defense Prohibition Act of 2018

Never voted on. It didn't reach a floor vote before the 115th Congress ended, so it expired. A bill has to be introduced again to be considered in a new Congress.

JKD KennedySponsor

29 cosponsors · 29 D

DCD Cicilline RGD Grijalva BHD Higgins RKD Khanna ALD Lowenthal JMD McGovern JND Nadler END Norton FPD Pallone MTD Takano MCD Capuano EED Esty RKD Kelly SLD Lynch SMD Maloney MQD Quigley SCD Cohen CHD Hanabusa KRD Rice JSD Schakowsky DWD Wasserman Schultz MDD DeSaulnier AED Eshoo SPD Peters BSD Schneider MCD Cartwright DKD Kilmer JSD Speier CCD Crist

10 signed on when it was introduced; the rest joined later. Cosponsors who withdrew aren't shown.

This bill generally prohibits a federal criminal defendant from asserting, as a defense, that the nonviolent sexual advance of an individual or a perception or belief of the gender, gender identify or expression, or sexual orientation of an individual excuses or justifies conduct or mitigates the severity of an offense.