Text of ME LD 1238 (2021)
An Act To Protect Women's Single-sex Shelters
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130th MAINE LEGISLATURE
FIRST REGULAR SESSION-2021
Legislative Document
No. 1238
S.P. 406
In Senate, March 25, 2021
An Act To Protect Women's Single-sex Shelters
Received by the Secretary of the Senate on March 23, 2021. Referred to the Committee on
Judiciary pursuant to Joint Rule 308.2 and ordered printed.
DAREK M. GRANT
Secretary of the Senate
Presented by Senator KEIM of Oxford.
Cosponsored by Representative TUTTLE of Sanford.
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
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Sec. 1. 5 MRSA §4553, sub-§8, as amended by PL 2019, c. 464, §1, is further
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amended by adding after the first blocked paragraph a new blocked paragraph to read:
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"Place of public accommodation" does not include a facility, owned and operated by a
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private entity, that provides emergency shelter to women or temporary residence to women
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who are in reasonable fear of their safety.
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SUMMARY
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This bill exempts from the definition of "place of public accommodation" in the Maine
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Human Rights Act privately owned and operated facilities that provide emergency shelter
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to women or temporary housing for women who are in reasonable fear of their safety.
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