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With the one-year mark until California s June 2022 primary election quickly approaching, focus is already turning to which contests for state Assembly and Senate seats will draw LGBTQ candidates. The speculation was ramped up by Equality California Executive Director Rick Chavez Zbur s recent launch of his bid for an open Los Angeles County Assembly seat. With it exceedingly rare for an incumbent member of the state Legislature to be defeated at the ballot box, most candidates wait until a seat opens up to run. Under the state s term limit rules, the winners can serve for up to 12 years and are likely to face little opposition when they seek reelection. ....
A number of California lawmakers Tuesday officially asked for an audit to be conducted of the state s efforts to collect LGBTQ demographic health data. The request had been expected as the COVID pandemic has brought to the forefront myriad issues in gathering sexual orientation and gender identity information. As the Bay Area Reporter first reported in December, gay state Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) had decided to seek a legislative audit via the Joint Legislative Audit Committee in order to examine how the state health department is meeting a legal requirement to collect the SOGI data. Since 2018, a number of California departments and agencies focused on health care and social services were to be collecting SOGI data after lawmakers enacted several pieces of legislation requiring that they do so. ....
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A record number of California Democratic lawmakers were dinged on the 2020 legislative scorecard released by a statewide LGBTQ advocacy organization. Thirty-three Democrats in the state Legislature failed to receive perfect scores last year due to not casting yes votes for LGBTQ bills. It is the highest number of Democratic legislators falling below a 100% score since 2006. That year, 22 Democrats in the statehouse earned less than perfect scores due to not voting in support of LGBTQ legislation. Equality California posted its 2020 scorecard to its website Friday, January 15, prior to the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. EQCA also tweeted out a link to the scorecard that day along with a number of tweets praising various lawmakers who earned perfect scores, among them Assemblyman Chad Meyes (I-Yucca Valley), who left the Republican Party a year ago this month. ....