Watts Passes Bill to Strengthen Civil Rights

In the 1960s and ‘70s, equal rights protesters fought for public accommodations laws — anti-discrimination statutes that now protect individuals from discrimination based on race, color, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, sex, gender identity or gender expression in public spaces, including most businesses.

But in Nevada and many other states, those protections do not explicitly extend to the digital realm. During a Senate Commerce and Labor Committee meeting on Monday, Assemblyman Howard Watts (D-Las Vegas) said he is looking to change that with AB207, a bill clarifying that Nevada's public accommodations law also applies to e-commerce. 

"AB207 aims to cross the digital divide and level the playing field so that all businesses operating in this state are open to all Nevadans," Watts said during the hearing.

…The bill passed out of the Assembly on a party-line 26-16 vote on April 20.
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