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California Democratic state Sen. Aisha Wahab is seen in Sacramento, California, on March 22, 2023. Wahab's original bill calling for the ban of caste discrimination was amended following ...
California Governor Gavin Newsom on Saturday vetoed a bill passed recently by the state legislature to explicitly ban caste discrimination, citing existing laws that already prohibit ancestry ...
A new bill introduced Wednesday in California’s state Senate could be a historic win in the fight against caste discrimination in the United States. California could become the 1st U.S. state to ...
California State Government Organization Archived 2010-10-06 at the Wayback Machine - Chart showing a hierarchy of the above departments and commissions; California State Agency Databases Archived 2016-03-07 at the Wayback Machine - Comprehensive list of state agencies and databases maintained by the American Library Association
LGBTQ rights in California; List of former U.S. state constitutional amendments banning same-sex unions by type; Obergefell v. Hodges—a 2015 U.S. Supreme Court case holding that the right to marry is guaranteed to same-sex couples. San Francisco 2004 same-sex weddings—a prior controversy that sparked In re Marriage Cases and led to ...
The legislation, SB 403, originally sought to add caste as a new category under the state’s nondiscrimination law, but it now enumerates caste as one protected class under the larger umbrella of ...
In September 2023, the California state senate passed a bill banning discrimination based on caste. SB403, authored by Democratic State Senator Aisha Wahab, is a legislative initiative in California that aims to make the state the first in the nation to include caste discrimination in the list of protected rights. [24]
Had the bill been signed into law, California would have become the first U.S. state to explicitly ban caste discrimination. The issue is important to the South Asian diaspora, particularly the ...