[History of Bills, Volume 155 (2009)]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


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H.R. 4180--A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to include 
    the disclosure of sexual orientation by a member of the Armed 
    Forces to a Member of Congress as a lawful and protected 
    communication and to prohibit retaliatory personnel actions 
    against members of the Armed Forces who make such a disclosure in 
    a Congressional hearing or who testify, for or against, the policy 
    concerning homosexuality in the Armed Forces; to the Committee on 
    Armed Services.


By Mr. HASTINGS of Florida (for himself, Mr. Moran of Virginia, Mrs. 
Capps, Ms. Berkley, Ms. Norton, Mr. Stark, Ms. Watson, Ms. Edwards of 
Maryland, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Grayson, Ms. Chu, Mr. Meeks of New York, 
Mr. Cummings, Mr. Hall of New York, Mr. Ackerman, Ms. Speier, Ms. 
Loretta Sanchez of California, Mr. Ellison, Mr. Dingell, Mr. 
Blumenauer, Ms. Woolsey, Ms. Kilpatrick of Michigan, Ms. Clarke, Ms. 
Pingree of Maine, Ms. Hirono, Mr. Filner, Mr. Abercrombie, and Mr. 
Walz), H13466 [2DE]

  Cosponsors added, H14744 [10DE], H15509 [23DE]