Gay and Trans Panic Defense Prohibition Act of 2019

Never voted on. It didn't reach a floor vote before the 116th Congress ended, so it expired. A bill has to be introduced again to be considered in a new Congress.

JKD KennedySponsor

47 cosponsors · 47 D

MCD Cartwright TCD Cárdenas CCD Crist TCD Cox AED Eshoo RGD Grijalva BHD Higgins DHD Haaland SJD Jackson Lee DKD Kilmer RKD Kelly RKD Khanna BLD Lee SLD Lynch ALD Lowenthal CMD Maloney GMD Moore SMD Maloney END Norton SPD Peters CPD Pappas JSD Schakowsky LSD Sánchez JSD Speier DSD Soto NTD Torres DWD Wasserman Schultz KBD Bass SCD Cohen JMD McGovern FPD Pallone BSD Schneider DTD Trone KCD Castor JCD Correa MDD DeSaulnier EBD Blumenauer SLD Lee APD Pressley JRD Raskin MPD Pocan JVD Van Drew MDD Doyle MQD Quigley DSD Shalala AKD Kuster LTD Trahan

27 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.