Gen. Xavier Becerra, pictured last month, on Thursday named four more states where state employees cannot travel for official business, citing their discriminatory laws. Gen. Xavier Becerra said Thursday that state employees will be prohibited from official travel to four additional states — Alabama, Kentucky, South Dakota and Texas — based on his determination that they have enacted laws that are discriminatory toward sexual orientation and gender identification. “Each of those states in the recent weeks have enacted legislation that may deprive some of the individuals of those states and individuals who visit those states of their constitutional rights,” Becerra said during a news conference in San Francisco. The state Legislature approved a bill last year that prohibits state-sanctioned travel to North Carolina, Mississippi, Kansas, Tennessee and other states that have laws that discriminate based on sexual orientation or gender identity. "Restricting state-sponsored travel is a consequence."

Source: Los Angeles Times June 22, 2017 22:17 UTC