Signed by Governor Jeff Landry

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to concur with Senate amendments and pass a bill that prohibits adverse employment actions against public employees for declining to use an individual's preferred pronouns in Louisiana.

Highlights:

• Defines “sex” as a person’s immutable biological sex displayed on the original birth certificate issued at or near the time of birth (Sec. 1).

• Prohibits public employers from instituting policies that require an employee to state or identify another someone’s pronouns inconsistent with their sex (Sec. 1).

• Prohibits public employers from instituting policies that require an employee to use a name other than someone’s legal name (Sec. 1).

• Prohibits employees from being required to address another individual with names, pronouns, salutations, titles, or honorifics inconsistent with their sex as a condition of employment (Sec. 1).

• Prohibits adverse employment action for public employees that refuse to identify their own pronouns, or address someone by a name other than their legal name or pronouns/salutations/titles/honorifics inconsistent with their sex (Sec. 1).

• Prohibits adverse employment action for public employees that use pronouns consistent with a person’s sex (Sec. 1).

• Specifies that requests and voluntary agreements among employers regarding forms of addressing a person are not prohibited as long they are not compelled by the employer (Sec. 1).

• Alleges that this Act is consistent with the First Amendment’s protection against compelled speech by the government and protects the rights to freedom of speech and religion in the workplace (Sec. 2).

Full Bill Text

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to amend and pass a bill that prohibits adverse employment actions against public employees for declining to use an individual's preferred pronouns in Louisiana.

Highlights:

• Defines “sex” as a person’s immutable biological sex displayed on the original birth certificate issued at or near the time of birth (Sec. 1).

• Prohibits public employers from instituting policies that require an employee to state or identify another someone’s pronouns inconsistent with their sex (Sec. 1).

• Prohibits public employers from instituting policies that require an employee to use a name other than someone’s legal name (Sec. 1).

• Prohibits employees from being required to address another individual with names, pronouns, salutations, titles, or honorifics inconsistent with their sex as a condition of employment (Sec. 1).

• Prohibits adverse employment action for public employees that refuse to identify their own pronouns, or address someone by a name other than their legal name or pronouns/salutations/titles/honorifics inconsistent with their sex (Sec. 1).

• Prohibits adverse employment action for public employees that use pronouns consistent with a person’s sex (Sec. 1).

• Specifies that requests and voluntary agreements among employers regarding forms of addressing a person are not prohibited as long they are not compelled by the employer (Sec. 1).

• Alleges that this Act is consistent with the First Amendment’s protection against compelled speech by the government and protects the rights to freedom of speech and religion in the workplace (Sec. 2).

Full Bill Text