BISMARCK (KFGO-AM) - The North Dakota House Human Services Committee has voted not to endorse a bill to outlaw discrimination based on sexual orientation.
Tuesday, the committee, on an 11- 2 vote, gave it a do not pass recommendation.
One of the bill's prime sponsors, Representative Josh Boschee of Fargo, the state's first openly gay legislator, tells KFGO News he's disappointed but not surprised.
He says he and others will work on getting more support for the legislation before the full House votes on the measure as soon as Wednesday. Boschee says that worked in the Senate. The bill was narrowly approved last month in the Senate on a 25-22 vote despite getting a do not pass recommendation from the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Similar bills failed in the past two legislative sessions.