Equal Opportunity First Amendment Act

United States116th CongressHR-7875House of Representatives
Updated: Jul 30, 2020

Summary

Equal Opportunity First Amendment Act This bill requires states and local governments to enforce orders limiting public gatherings under emergency declarations equally. Specifically, the bill (1) prohibits states and units of local government that issue orders that limit gatherings to a certain number of people pursuant to a national emergency or similar state emergency declaration from discriminating in the enforcement of such order, in the case of persons who are exercising a right protected under the First Amendment; and (2) authorizes a private right of action in U.S. district court by a person who is harmed by a violation of this provision.

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Timeline

  1. Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

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  2. Introduced in House

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