Gender Identity Expression Anti-discrimination

The act adds the terms "gender expression" and "gender identity" to statutes prohibiting discrimination against members of a protected class, including statutes prohibiting discriminatory practices in the following areas:

• Membership of the Colorado civil rights commission;
• Employment practices;
• Housing practices;
• Places of public accommodation;
• Publications that advertise places of public accommodation;
• Consumer credit transactions;
• Selection of patients by direct primary health care providers;
• Sales of cemetery plots;
• Membership in labor organizations;
• Colorado labor for public works projects;
• Issuance or renewal of automobile insurance policies;
• The provision of funeral services and crematory services;
• Eligibility for jury service;
• Issuance of licenses to practice law;
• The juvenile diversion program;
• Access to services for youth in foster care;
• Enrollment in a charter school, institute charter school, public school, or pilot school;
• Local school boards' written policies regarding employment, promotion, and dismissal;
• The assignment or transfer of a public school teacher;
• Leasing portions of the grounds of or improvements on the grounds of the Colorado state university - Pueblo and the Colorado school of mines;
• Enrollment or classification of students at private occupational schools;
• Training provided to peace officers concerning the prohibition against profiling;
• Criminal justice data collection;
• Employment in the state personnel system;
• The availability of services for the prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted infections;
• Membership of the health equity commission;
• The availability of family planning services;
• Requirements for managed care programs participating in the state medicaid program and the children's basic health plan;
• The treatment of and access to services by individuals in facilities providing substance use disorder treatment programs;
• Employment practices of county departments of human or social services involving the selection, retention, and promotion of employees;
• Practices of the Colorado housing and finance authority in making or committing to make a housing facility loan;
• The imposition of occupancy requirements on charitable property for which the owner is claiming an exemption from property taxes based on the charitable use of the property;
• Practices of transportation network companies in providing services to the public; and
• The determination of whether expenses paid at or to a club that has a policy to restrict membership are tax deductible.
  (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)