California adds 5 states to state-funded travel ban over anti-LGBTQ laws

California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced on Monday that five more states would join California's state-funded travel restriction list. Arkansas, Florida, Montana, North Dakota and West Virginia join 12 other states on the list.

Bonta explained that the five new states were added due to lawmakers' recent passage of anti-LGBTQ laws. "When states discriminate against LGBTQ+ Americans, California law requires our office to take action. These new additions to the state-funded travel restrictions list are about exactly that," Bonta said in a statement.