The Bottom Line
Across the country, cities and counties are taking steps to promote progress and to protect their residents on a range of issues, including workers' rights and benefits, the minimum wage, nondiscrimination protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people, pro-immigrant policies, environmental efforts, and more. However, a new report examines how many state legislatures are attempting to limit these efforts through “preemption,” or state laws that block or prevent local governments from passing their own laws on a range of issues.
The Power of State Preemption: Preventing Progress and Threatening Equality exposes the coordinated effort to limit municipalities from passing local laws, the special interests motivating these efforts, and the negative impact specifically on LGBT people. The report concludes that when preemption is used in this way to undermine people’s economic security, health, and safety, it jeopardizes local democracy and equality for all.
The report is authored in partnership with the Equality Federation, A Better Balance, Family Values @ Work, and the Local Solutions Support Center.
The Power of State Preemption: Preventing Progress and Threatening EqualityDownload GRAPHIC: State Preemption: A Threat to Progress and LGBT EqualityDownload GRAPHIC: State Preemption: A Threat to Immigrants and to LGBT EqualityDownload GRAPHIC: State Preemption: A Threat to Workers and to LGBT EqualityDownload GRAPHIC: State Preemption: A Threat to Fair Wages and to LGBT EqualityDownload
Recommended citation:
Movement Advancement Project. May 2018. "The Power of State Preemption: Preventing Progress and Threatening Equality."
https://www.lgbtmap.org/power-of-preemption-report.
