Revised Discrimination Act of 2026

What it does

1. Ch. 1, proposed Title 1 Ch. 7 Arts. 1 and 2: establishes equality duties across specified public and private activities, protecting age, race, origin, religion or its absence, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, and housing status, including perception and association.
2. Ch. 1, proposed Arts. 3 and 4: prohibits direct and unjustified indirect discrimination, discriminatory and sexual harassment, knowing assistance, and retaliation for complaints, evidence, or accommodation requests.
3. Ch. 1, proposed Art. 5: requires effective disability adjustments at no charge unless a disproportionate burden is proved after considering alternatives.
4. Ch. 1, proposed Art. 6: preserves genuine religious functions and specified State Religion privileges while applying ordinary equality duties to employment and public services, and permits justified occupational requirements and measures addressing disadvantage.
5. Ch. 1, proposed Arts. 7 and 8: creates civil claims, organizational responsibility, compensation and corrective relief, adds class based protections in healthcare and education, and requires professional dignity and impartial complaints.
6. Ch. 1, proposed Art. 9: requires complete public digital services, including elections, to meet the specified WCAG 2.1 Level AA edition, verifies keyboard and assistive technology access manually as well as automatically, and permits civil correction and interim access; later standards require an Act or Imperial Order, and no dedicated public statement or feedback channel is mandated.
7. Ch. 2, proposed Title 2 Ch. 4 Art. 15: imposes impartial professional duties on state staff and appointed leaders in official functions, exempts elected capacity, protects private expression, and requires independent complaint routes, fair discipline, reasons, and judicial review.
8. Ch. 3, proposed Title 7 Ch. 2 Art. 12: permits a proved hate aggravation to raise numerical sentencing maxima by up to 50%, generally limits combined enhancements to twice the starting maximum, and prevents counting the same hostility twice.
9. Ch. 4 s. 1, proposed Title 7 Ch. 8 Art. 25: criminalizes knowing intentional discriminatory denial and material retaliation, with ordinary maxima of 25,000 SL and 14 days or 50,000 SL and 30 days for specified aggravation.
10. Ch. 4 s. 2, proposed Title 7 Ch. 9 Art. 10: criminalizes intended hate intimidation causing defined serious harm, with ordinary maxima of 10,000 SL and 14 days or 50,000 SL and 30 days when aggravated.
11. Ch. 4 s. 2, proposed Art. 11: criminalizes threatening or seriously abusive incitement creating a real and substantial risk of violence or criminal discrimination, protects criticism and debate alone, and permits limited restitution, no contact, education, and removal orders without duplicate punishment.
12. Ch. 5 s. 1, proposed Title 7 Ch. 8 Art. 26 ss. 1 and 2: criminalizes serious repeated domestic coercive control, including financial, social, digital, and psychological abuse, with maxima of 50,000 SL and 30 days or 100,000 SL and 60 days when aggravated.
13. Ch. 5 s. 1, proposed Art. 26 ss. 3 to 5: creates domestic assault maxima up to 150,000 SL and 90 days, permits capped enhancements for other domestic abuse offenses, preserves defenses and limitation rules, and prevents compelled reconciliation and duplicate punishment.
14. Ch. 5 s. 1, proposed Art. 27: authorizes protective orders up to 180 days, interim judicial orders up to 7 days and police directions up to 48 hours with review, creates knowing breach offenses, and requires accessible safety assistance.
15. Ch. 5 s. 2, proposed Art. 28: criminalizes deliberate deprivation and wilful neglect exploiting disability related dependence, permits capped enhancements and connected restrictions, and provides accessible reporting, restored support, replacement care, and protection respecting personal preferences.
16. Ch. 5 ss. 3 and 4: coordinates domestic assault rules, assesses defensive force in reasonably perceived circumstances, excuses specified fear driven excess during imminent attack, and requires the prosecution to disprove properly raised defenses.
17. Ch. 6: replaces broad speech privilege sanctions with expression and press rights for every person, necessary and proportionate legally defined restrictions and judicial review, excludes criticism alone from treason, and preserves independently proved harassment, incitement, propaganda, and defamation rules.
18. Ch. 7 s. 1, proposed Title 1 Ch. 7 Art. 10: guarantees voluntary contraception and reproductive choice, prohibits moral or ideological government bans, and limits product restrictions to evidence based, necessary, proportionate health and safety measures.
19. Ch. 7 s. 2, proposed Art. 11: prohibits confinement without lawful authority, punitive medication and obstruction of independent counsel, protects informed refusal and humane institutional care, and conditionally protects education when a nationwide statutory program begins.
20. Ch. 7 s. 3, proposed Art. 12: recognizes children as individual persons and requires age appropriate participation in family, public, educational, and judicial decisions, including independent representation where interests conflict, without automatic majority or unrestricted legal capacity.
21. Ch. 7 s. 4, proposed Art. 13: permits restroom access consistent with gender identity without medical or identity document conditions, requires reasonable capacity, accessibility, hygiene, and privacy, and avoids disproportionate rebuilding of existing premises.
22. Ch. 7 s. 5, proposed Art. 14: protects hair texture and lawful presentation against unjustified exclusion while permitting necessary occupational safety and hygiene rules after considering reasonable alternatives.
23. Ch. 7 s. 6, proposed Art. 15: regulates tenancy terms, repairs, landlord entry, deposits capped at 2 installments, notice and deposit return periods, and court ordered contested eviction, with remedies for tenants and landlords.
24. Ch. 8 s. 1, proposed Title 7 Ch. 8 Art. 29: criminalizes forced sterilization, coerced contraception, forced abortion, female genital mutilation, and virginity testing, with ordinary imprisonment maxima of 60 to 365 days and up to 540 days for specified aggravated conduct.
25. Ch. 8 s. 2, proposed Art. 30: criminalizes unlawful institutional confinement, denial of counsel, punitive chemical restraint, forced religious or psychological practices, obstruction of inspections, and confinement based financial exploitation, ordinarily up to 100,000 SL and 60 days or 250,000 SL and 180 days when aggravated.
26. Ch. 8 s. 3, proposed Art. 31: prohibits specified dangerous coercive therapies, nonconsensual behavioral psychosurgery, and institutional experimentation without informed consent, with penalties and connected supervisory restrictions.
27. Ch. 8 s. 4, proposed Art. 32: prohibits school corporal punishment and injurious or degrading parental discipline while permitting brief proportionate noninjurious parental correction, with ordinary and aggravated criminal penalties.
28. Ch. 9: exempts forced sterilization, forced abortion, female genital mutilation, and nonconsensual behavioral psychosurgery from the criminal limitation period.
29. Ch. 10 s. 1, proposed Title 1 Ch. 7 Art. 16: adds tailored reinstatement, correction, record preservation, accommodation, restoration of access, child representation, and verified compliance remedies for the different civil rights categories.
30. Ch. 10 s. 2, proposed Art. 17 ss. 1 to 6: authorizes court supervised custody, replacement management, and temporary state or independent administration of seriously or repeatedly abusive operations when ordinary and narrower remedies are inadequate, without itself transferring title.
31. Ch. 10 s. 2, proposed Art. 17 ss. 7 and 8: permits final closure, disqualification, dissolution, or transfer only after further findings, protects lawful political and religious activity, and requires compensation for innocent interests when nonforfeitable property enters state ownership.
32. Ch. 10 s. 3, proposed Art. 18: requires hearings, reasons, inventories, conflicts safeguards, appeal and transition plans; limits initial special administration to 90 days with reports every 30 days and fresh findings for renewal; permits capped coercive civil payments for deliberate noncompliance.
33. Ch. 10 s. 4, proposed Title 7 Ch. 1 Art. 11: establishes organizational criminal attribution through proved controlling leadership or knowingly maintained practices, preserves individual culpability requirements, and limits organizational punishment to fines and authorized noncustodial orders.
34. Ch. 10 s. 5, proposed Title 7 Ch. 8 Art. 33: provides offense specific restitution, corrective measures, safeguarding, and connected disqualifications, in some categories up to 1,825 days, without automatic child removal, forfeiture, or takeover.
35. Ch. 11, proposed Title 1 Ch. 7 Art. 19: legalizes voluntary nonsexual nudity within designated public, event, managed, or private zones, requires conspicuous notices and boundaries, preserves privacy and safety, and bars blanket local designation bans while allowing proportionate site specific regulation.
36. Ch. 12 s. 1, proposed Art. 20: legalizes voluntary sex work for persons meeting the existing sexual consent law, protects confidentiality and equal ordinary services, and prohibits forced rehabilitation solely for lawful participation.
37. Ch. 12 s. 1, proposed Art. 20 ss. 3 to 5: makes consent continuously revocable, prevents compulsory sexual performance and confiscation of workers' earnings or documents, protects agreed pay and safe conditions, and prohibits compulsory medical examinations or intrusive surveillance.
38. Ch. 12 s. 2, proposed Art. 21: establishes commercial premises classes, local siting approval, minimum room and emergency standards, hygiene and limited inspection powers; prohibits unjustified blanket bans and exempts independent private activity from commercial certification solely for that work.
39. Ch. 13 s. 1, proposed Art. 22: prohibits coercive rehabilitation, unnecessary psychiatric admission quotas, abandonment of dependent patients, routine childbirth shackling, punitive sanitation or communication deprivation, and forced isolation of abuse complainants, with narrow emergency exceptions and civil remedies.
40. Ch. 13 s. 2, proposed Art. 23 ss. 1 and 2: prohibits family separation for poverty or homelessness alone and requires consideration of available support and less intrusive protection, while preserving action against independently proved serious danger.
41. Ch. 13 s. 2, proposed Art. 23 ss. 3 and 4: conditionally protects pregnant and postpartum students within a nationwide education program only when such a program commences, requires reasonable arrangements, and permits court ordered reassessment and relief.
42. Ch. 14 s. 1, proposed Title 7 Ch. 8 Art. 34: criminalizes coercive sex work, commercial exploitation contrary to consent age rules, restrictive withholding of earnings or documents, and dangerous defiance of premises orders, with restitution, disqualification, and independently justified organizational measures.
43. Ch. 14 s. 2, proposed Art. 35: criminalizes coercive institutional rehabilitation, detention quotas causing wrongful confinement, patient abandonment, unlawful childbirth restraint, and serious punitive sanitation or communication deprivation, with ordinary and aggravated penalties and corrective orders.
44. Ch. 14 ss. 3 and 4: excludes designated nonsexual nudity from public indecency, binds covered public and private bodies, requires express authority for subordinate restrictions, and bars retrospective application of new offenses.
45. Ch. 15 s. 1, proposed Title 1 Ch. 7 Art. 24 ss. 1 to 5 and 7: prohibits housing status exclusion from ordinary work, housing, commerce and public services, protects ordinary public presence and rest without other unlawful conduct, requires reasonable identity alternatives, and limits coercive conditions on shelter or assistance.
46. Ch. 15 s. 1, proposed Art. 24 ss. 6 and 8: ordinarily requires practicable 48 hour notice for public site clearances, inventories belongings with practicable recovery for at least 14 days, and provides correction, compensation, access restoration, and judicial review.
47. Ch. 15 s. 2, proposed Art. 25: establishes housing circumstance statistical classes coordinated through Interior, requires published methodology and privacy protections, bars compulsory homeless registration or diagnostic disclosure, and prevents classifications from determining lesser legal status or program eligibility by themselves.
48. Ch. 16 s. 1, proposed Title 2 Ch. 33 Art. 1: establishes an Imperial Household Administration directly under the Emperor without ordinary parent Minister oversight, with Emperor appointed Chamberlain and Steward, distinct official and private secretarial reporting, and no independent appropriation or general executive power.
49. Ch. 16 ss. 1 and 2, proposed Arts. 2 and 3: permits voluntary adult Concubine appointments for designated consenting Imperial principals, independent resignation and personal relationships, and expressly separate marriage, family, succession, and public office status.
50. Ch. 16 ss. 3 and 4, proposed Arts. 4 and 5: distinguishes private allowances from actual public household employment, forbids public purchase of intimacy, preserves ordinary labor rights, and requires appointment and expenditure records, privacy, and access to independent assistance.
51. Ch. 17 s. 2, replacement Title 7 Ch. 7 Art. 2 ss. 1 to 6: defines allegiance, armed or enemy assisted High Treason, other treason including hostile operational disclosure, and High Treason for specified unilateral territorial separation without genuine Imperial consultation, while preserving separate proof and specified lawful advocacy.
52. Ch. 17 s. 2, replacement Art. 2 s. 2(f): makes intentionally imagining, contemplating, or wishing the death of the Monarch, lawful spouse, eldest child, or designated Heir High Treason even without communication, planning, preparation, or action.
53. Ch. 16 s. 2, proposed Art. 3 s. 4, and Ch. 17 s. 2, replacement Art. 2 s. 2(g): requires the Monarch's prior oral or written authorization for sexual conduct with the Monarch's lawful spouse and makes knowing unauthorized conduct High Treason even where the participants consent.
54. Ch. 17 s. 2, replacement Art. 2 ss. 7 and 8: sets High Treason in paragraphs (a) to (d), (f), and (g) at 15 years to life and up to 5,000,000 SL, sets nonviolent unilateral separation at 10 to 40 years, allows broader confiscation and Imperial approved exile, and restricts death eligibility to specified additional lethal or hostile force circumstances with required assent.
55. Ch. 17 s. 2, replacement Art. 2 s. 9: requires 6 to 24 months of correctional reeducation for High Treason where practicable, permits shorter programs for other specified convictions, and allows instruction in Vasili Thought, Totemian identity, Imperial institutions, and allegiance without extending custody.
56. Ch. 17 s. 3, proposed Art. 20: creates desertion and force related mutiny offenses with ordinary imprisonment up to 5 years, up to 15 years for specified armed mutiny, or 5 to 25 years when aggravated by war or serious operational danger, while protecting lawful leave, incapacity, reporting, and refusal of manifestly unlawful orders.
57. Ch. 17 s. 4, proposed Art. 21: creates defined threats, coercive obstruction, sovereign impersonation, targeted intimidation, and instrument offenses against Imperial authority, ordinarily punishable by 2 to 10 years or 5 to 25 years when aggravated, while excluding disrespect alone.
58. Ch. 17 s. 5, amended Art. 6 s. 4: expands protected operational and location information and penalizes knowing unauthorized disclosure creating substantial serious security risk, reserving treason for its additional allegiance and hostile assistance elements and excluding already officially released information.