Equality Indiana's 2023 Legislative initiatives

Bans discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity or expression in housing, employment, and public accommodations

Modernize state marriage law to affirm marriage equality for all couples

Laws that allow for a private and streamlined legal process for Indiana citizens to change their gender identity and subsequent markers on state documents

Repeal the unconstitutional law that bans transgender girls from participating in school sports

Requires school districts to include specific protections against bullying and harassment based on race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, national origin, or disability

Require any eligible school, that receives public money via a choice scholarship, may not discriminate against a staff member or student based on disability, race, color, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, religion, or ancestry

Requires the teaching of LGBTQ inclusive, comprehensive, and age-appropriate public health sex education programs in public schools

Allow school curriculum to require inclusion of LGBTQ contributions in state and American history in public schools

Repeal Indiana's abortion ban, so all Hoosiers can exercise reproductive and healthcare freedoms 

Require fair and equal access to essential healthcare for every person regardless of disability, race, color, gender, gender identity or expression, or sexual orientation; including, but not limited to, Medicaid coverage for gender-affirming care

Modernize Indiana’s HIV-specific criminal laws to promote public health efforts to end the Indiana HIV epidemic by reducing HIV-related stigma and discrimination, eliminating barriers to HIV testing and treatment, and aligning laws with current HIV science

Ban conversion therapy that purports to change a child’s sexual orientation or gender identity

Declares racism a public health crisis

Modify Indiana’s hate crimes laws to be inclusive and comprehensive by including enumerated protections for transgender Hoosiers

Prohibits profiling of any kind by law enforcement

Requires the appointment of a special prosecutor for incidents of police misconduct and fatal excessive force

Provide funding for law enforcement officers' vehicle dash cams and their uniforms to be equip with body cameras

Create comprehensive medical cannabis programs in Indiana

Decriminalize possession of up to two ounces of marijuana 

Requires universal background checks on all firearm purchases

End current limits on absentee ballots which deprive thousands of Hoosiers of their right to vote and will permanently permit “no excuse” absentee voting, so any voter who can’t get to the polls on Election Day has an opportunity to cast a ballot

Reform and update Indiana's voter registration system to allow same-day voter registration

Create a nonpartisan, citizen-led redistricting commission that would control the redistricting process and produce Congressional and state legislative maps that the General Assembly would vote up or down to adopt

Adopt "clean elections" laws that provides a government grant to candidates who agree to limit their spending and private fundraising