Sponsored by Rep. Frank Foster and backed by House Speaker Jase Bolger, the bill would update Michigan’s civil rights law to include sexual orientation but not gender identity.
A coalition of business leaders and others has been lobbying to add legal protections for LGBT people as a way to attract talent to Michigan. Democrats in September introduced legislation to do so when Republicans delayed their own bills, in part because of a dispute over whether to include both sexual orientation and gender identity protections.
Two House committees will consider the bills in December, when the lame-duck session is expected to intensify.
