In prev ssns, bills banng the 'gay panic' legal fense unanimoly passed the Hoe but were not taken up by the Senate.
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- HOE LEGISLATORS START THIRD ATTEMPT TO BAN ‘GAY PANIC’ FENSE IOWA
- BAN ON ‘GAY PANIC FENSE’ AGA MOV FORWARD IOWA HOE
- IOWA HOE PASS BILL TO BAN SO-LLED ‘GAY PANIC’ FENSE
- THIRD ATTEMPT AT BAN ON ‘GAY PANIC FENSE’ IOWA URTS
- IOWA HOE PASS BAN ON ‘GAY PANIC FENSE’
HOE LEGISLATORS START THIRD ATTEMPT TO BAN ‘GAY PANIC’ FENSE IOWA
Iowa Hoe legislators are tryg for a third time to enact legislatn banng “gay panic” legal fens Iowa.
An Iowa Hoe Judiciary submtee unanimoly approved a bill Wednday that would prevent fendants acced of vlent crim om g a “temporary sany” fense to lsen charg s where they disvered the victim was gay or transgenr.
Defendants other stat have won rced sentenc urt wh this argument, often lled “gay panic” or “trans panic” fens.
BAN ON ‘GAY PANIC FENSE’ AGA MOV FORWARD IOWA HOE
Kfmann said those proposals are unrelated to the “gay panic” fense legislatn. The so-lled 'gay panic fense” has been ed succsfully other stat, Keenan Crow of One Iowa told the submtee Thursday.
In g the gay and trans panic fense, fendants have argued their vlent actns were jtified by learng another person's sexual orientatn or sexual inty or by a non-vlent pass or e-on om a LGBTQ-pl person. The Iowa Hoe has unanimoly passed a bill to prohib fendants charged wh a vlent crime om claimg temporary sany bee they disvered the victim was gay or transgenr. Reprentative Bobby Kfmann of Wilton said fendants several other stat have ed this so-lled “gay panic” argument and their sentenc were substantially rced.
The bill that has cleared the Iowa Hoe would prevent a “gay panic” fense om beg ed state urt when someone is charged wh a felony or rtg. An Iowa Hoe submtee has aga advanced a bill to ban what’s been lled the “gay panic fense.
IOWA HOE PASS BILL TO BAN SO-LLED ‘GAY PANIC’ FENSE
” It would prevent fendants charged wh a vlent crime om claimg temporary sany bee they disvered the victim was gay, lbian or transgenr. Keenan Crow of One Iowa, a group that advot for lbian, gay and transgenr Iowans, addrsed the Hoe submtee that advanced the bill. The bill banng the “gay panic fense, ” Hoe File 159, passed the Hoe wh near-unanimo support.