Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that prohibits the use of the trans or gay panic defense in assault cases.

Highlights:

• Establishes that “The defenses of justification and diminished capacity are not available to a person who is the subject of a nonviolent sexual advance who commits a violent crime, as defined in section 915.10, or to a person who commits an assault, as defined in section 708.1, upon another person as the result of the person’s discovery of, knowledge about, or potential disclosure of the victim’s sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity” (Page 2).

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