City of Cambridge calls on the Food and Drug Administration to consider sexual behaviors rather than sexual identity or sexual orientation when identifying potential blood donors as “High-Risk."

How it started

Jun 20, 2016 · Proposed by Councillors Cheung, Mazen, and McGovern: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Jun 20, 2016 · ✅ Order adopted (one not recorded)

Present and voting at this meeting (8)

Craig A. Kelley
Dennis Carlone
E. Denise Simmons
Jan Devereux
Leland Cheung
Marc McGovern
Nadeem Mazen
Timothy J. Toomey

Adopted by voice vote. A voice vote records the outcome, not individual positions. No member's yes or no is on the record (though a member can ask to be recorded in the negative in the minutes). Showing the members who cast recorded votes at this meeting. Rule 6 requires a roll call for spending over $50 or on any member's request; state law requires one for every vote when a member participates remotely. · photos: City of Cambridge

What’s next

⌛ No response on the docket: nothing has been filed back under this request's number. Answers sometimes arrive as other items; this ledger tracks only this one.

🏛 This item on the city's site

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Jun 20, 2016