No Place for LGBTQ+ Hate Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1957 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1957

   To repeal certain executive orders targeting LGBTQI+ individuals.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              June 4, 2025

Mr. Merkley (for himself, Ms. Baldwin, Mr. Bennet, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. 
 Booker, Mr. Coons, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Heinrich, Ms. Hirono, Mr. Kim, Mr. 
   Markey, Mr. Murphy, Mr. Padilla, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Schiff, Mr. Van 
Hollen, Ms. Warren, Mr. Welch, and Mr. Wyden) introduced the following 
 bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland 
                   Security and Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
   To repeal certain executive orders targeting LGBTQI+ individuals.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``No Place for LGBTQ+ Hate Act''.

SEC. 2. REPEAL OF EXECUTIVE ORDERS.

    (a) In General.--
            (1) No force or effect.--The Executive orders that target 
        lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or intersex 
        (LGBTQI+) individuals, described in subsection (b), and any 
        related or successor Executive orders that similarly harm or 
        limit the rights of LGBTQI+ individuals, shall have no force or 
        effect.
            (2) No funding.--Pursuant to article I of the Constitution, 
        including the Spending Clause of section 8 of article I of the 
        Constitution, no Federal funds may be used to implement, 
        administer, enforce, or carry out those Executive orders.
    (b) Executive Orders Described.--The Executive orders referred to 
in subsection (a) are the following:
            (1) Executive Order 14168 (90 Fed. Reg. 8615; relating to 
        the Federal interpretation of sex), which--
                    (A) mandates discrimination against transgender, 
                nonbinary, intersex, and gender-nonconforming 
                individuals in the United States;
                    (B) could demolish protections for LGBTQI+ 
                individuals in employment, education, housing, and 
                health care; and
                    (C) refuses appropriate Federal identity markers to 
                transgender, nonbinary, and intersex individuals.
            (2) Executive Order 14183 (90 Fed. Reg. 8757; relating to 
        reinstating and expanding the military ban on transgender 
        servicemembers).
            (3) Executive Order 14187 (90 Fed. Reg. 8771; relating to 
        directing agencies to take action to prevent transgender health 
        care from being provided to adolescents under the age of 19).
            (4) Executive Order 14201 (90 Fed. Reg. 9279; relating to 
        prohibiting transgender female students from participating on 
        school sports teams aligning with their gender identity).
            (5) Executive Order 14190 (90 Fed. Reg. 8853; relating to 
        requiring schools to deny the existence of transgender people).

SEC. 3. SAVINGS PROVISION.

    Nothing in this Act shall be construed to impair any constitutional 
authority granted to the President.
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