Revises provisions relating to athletics. (BDR 34-179)
AN ACT relating to athletics; requiring certain schools and institutions of higher education to designate by sex the athletic teams and sports sponsored by the schools or institutions; prohibiting male or female athletes from competing on teams designated for the other sex; prohibiting certain actions from being brought against a school or institution for maintaining a separate athletic team or sport designated for pupils and students of the female or male sex; establishing certain causes of action; establishing the statute of limitations for such actions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
83rd Legislature (2025)
An athletic team or sport that is designated for: (a) “Females,” “women” or “girls” [...] must not be open to pupils of the male sex. (b) “Males,” “men” or “boys” [...] must not be open to pupils of the female sex.
The designation of an interscholastic or intramural athletic team or sport based on sex, the exclusion of a member of the male sex from a team or sport designated for females or the exclusion of a member of the female sex from a team or sport designated for males pursuant to section 5 of this act does not constitute discrimination on the basis of sex or gender identity or expression for the purposes of any state statute or local ordinance.
A governmental entity, a licensing or accrediting organization or any athletic association or organization shall not entertain a complaint, open an investigation or take any other adverse action [...] for maintaining separate interscholastic or intramural athletic teams or sports for pupils of the female sex or the male sex.
“Sex” means the biological sex of a natural person, either male or female, as observed or clinically verified at birth.
History
| Date | Action |
|---|---|
| 2025-02-18 | From printer. To committee. |
| 2025-02-17 | Read first time. Referred to Committee on Education. To printer. |