To all who have said Me Too and called out for change,

We write as state legislators from across the United States to say: We hear you. We are with you. And we commit to fighting for a safer future for everyone.

We see how sexual violence and other forms of sexual harassment deeply injure our communities by keeping students from succeeding in school, denying women safety and equal opportunity at work, and—as many of us have witnessed firsthand—blocking women from political leadership. No state is immune to this corrosive harm.

On the one-year anniversary of #MeToo going viral, nearly 300 organizations came together to call for strengthened protections against sexual harassment and violence at work, in schools, homes, and communities—demanding concrete advances in “20 states by 2020.”

Now, as voters demand leaders who champion safety and dignity for all survivors and historically high numbers of women are being elected to state legislatures, we cannot wait for Congress to act.

States must lead in this fight.

As state legislative sessions begin, we commit to supporting survivors and working to address sexual harassment and violence in our workplaces, our schools, and every place it occurs.

We will work with survivors and the communities most severely impacted by sexual violence—including women of color, immigrants, and LGBTQIA and gender nonconforming individuals—who are central to creating the solutions this movement demands.

Together let’s build a better world in the MeToo Era.

We call on all states to join us.

The time is now.

In Solidarity, State Representative Raquel Terán, Arizona State Senator Connie M. Leyva, California State Representative Scott Kawasaki, Alaska State Senator Anna Caballero, California State Assemblymember Eloise Reyes, California State Representative Andrés Cano, Arizona State Assemblymember Wendy Carrillo, State Senator Nancy Skinner, California State Representative Kirsten Engel, Arizona California State Representative Daneya Esgar, Colorado State Representative Rosanna Gabaldón, State Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia, State Representative Leslie Herod, Colorado Arizona California State Representative Christine Conley, State Representative Athena Salman, Arizona State Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson, California Connecticut State Representative Jane Garibay, Connecticut State Representative Daniel Didech, Illinois State Representative Mary Mascher, Iowa State Representative Jillian Gilchrest, State Representative Mary Edly-Allen, Illinois State Senator Amanda Ragan, Iowa Connecticut State Senator Sara Feigenholtz, Illinois State Representative Art Staed, Iowa State Representative Anne Hughes, Connecticut State Representative Mary Flowers, Illinois State Senator Rich Taylor, Iowa State Senator Matthew Lesser, Connecticut State Representative Robyn Gabel, Illinois State Senator Zach Wahls, Iowa State Senator Marilyn Moore, Connecticut State Representative Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz, State Representative Ross Wilburn, Iowa State Representative Caroline Simmons, Illinois State Representative Joni Jenkins, Kentucky Connecticut State Representative Edgar Gonzalez, Jr., Illinois State Representative Josie Raymond, Kentucky Councilmember Charles Allen, District of State Representative Will Guzzardi, Illinois State Representative Attica Scott, Kentucky Columbia State Representative Michael Halpin, Illinois State Representative Lisa Willner, Kentucky Councilmember David Grosso, District of State Representative Greg Harris, Illinois State Representative Royce Duplessis, Louisiana Columbia Majority Caucus Chair Mattie Hunter, Illinois State Representative Jimmy Harris, Louisiana State Senator Lori Berman, Florida Speaker Michael Madigan, Illinois State Representative Jason Hughes, Louisiana State Representative Anna Eskamani, Florida State Representative Theresa Mah, Illinois State Representative Mandie Landry, Louisiana State Representative Amy Mercado, Florida State Representative Natalie Manley, Illinois State Senator Karen Carter Peterson, Louisiana State Representative Carlos Guillermo Smith, State Representative Joyce Mason, Illinois State Representative Robert Alley, Maine Florida State Representative Anna Moeller, Illinois State Representative Christopher Babbidge, State Representative Park Cannon, Georgia State Representative Martin Moylan, Illinois Maine State Representative David Dreyer, Georgia State Representative Michelle Mussman, Illinois State Representative Pinny Beebe-Center, State Representative Bee Nguyen, Georgia State Representative Diane Pappas, Illinois Maine State Senator Nan Orrock, Georgia State Representative Sue Scherer, Illinois State Senator Shenna Bellows, Maine State Representative Sam Park, Georgia State Representative Nicholas Smith, Illinois State Representative Michael Brennan, Maine State Representative Kim Schofield, Georgia State Representative Karina Villa, Illinois State Representative Christopher Caiazzo, State Representative Renitta Shannon, Georgia State Representative Celina Villanueva, Illinois Maine State Senator Laura Thielen, Hawaii State Senator Ram Villivalam, Illinois State Representative Anne Carney, Maine State Representative Carol Ammons, Illinois State Representative Maurice West, Illinois State Representative Kristen Cloutier, Maine State Representative Jaime M. 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