Legislative update: Pavliga uses her lame duck session to target pronouns

Legislative update: Pavliga uses her lame duck session to target pronouns

- Isabella Schreck

Welcome to the Portager’s legislative round-up, which will regularly track what Portage County lawmakers are doing in Washington and in Columbus.

In her last months as an Ohio state representative, Gail Pavliga (R-Atwater) introduced a bill that would ban public colleges from asking students or employees for their preferred gender pronouns on applications. This House Bill 686 was proposed Nov. 7 and has sat in the Higher Education Committee since Nov. 12.

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