THE POLICY LANDSCAPE
Rights, restrictions & the places between.
Federal HB8720 (2022)
To prohibit the availability of funds for the Department of Defense for organizing, promoting, or hosting drag shows as a means of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.
Anti-LGBTQ+
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Session
- 117th Congress
- Stage reported
- Introduced
- First recorded action
- Latest action
- : Introduced in House
- Record retrieved
Bill types
As labelled in the project's tracker.
Censorship: Drag Ban
Links
- As introduced (PDF, hosted here)
- LegiScan record(opens another site)
- Official legislature page(opens another site)
- Introduced text (Aug 25, 2022) at Congress.gov(opens another site)PDF, external
- Bill page on this site
Recorded actions
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| House | Introduced in House | |
| House | Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services. |
Legislative status and legal enforcement are different. See the policy areas and the court sources they cite for enforcement.
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