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VA HB1387

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K-12 schools/higher ed. institution; designation of interscholastic, etc., sports based on sex, etc.

K-12 schools and institutions of higher education; designation of interscholastic, intercollegiate, intramural, and club athletic teams and sports based on biological sex; student participation in female teams or sports; civil cause of action. Requires each interscholastic, intercollegiate, intramural, or club athletic team or sport sponsored by a public elementary or secondary school or by a public institution of higher education to be expressly designated as one of the following based on biological sex: (i) males, men, or boys; (ii) females, women, or girls; or (iii) coed or mixed if participation on such team or sport is open to both (a) males, men, or boys and (b) females, women, or girls. The bill requires identification of the student's biological sex on an athletics eligibility form signed by a licensed physician, nurse practitioner, or physician assistant to be submitted by any such student who desires to try out for or participate in an interscholastic, intercollegiate, intramural, or club athletic team or sport. The bill prohibits any such team or sport that is expressly designated for females, women, or girls from being open to students whose biological sex is male. The bill further prohibits any interscholastic, intercollegiate, intramural, or club athletic team or sport sponsored by a public elementary or secondary school or a public institution of higher education from competing against any interscholastic, intercollegiate, intramural, or club athletic team or sport sponsored by a private elementary or secondary school or private institution of higher education in the Commonwealth unless such private school or institution complies with the applicable provisions of the bill. K-12 schools and institutions of higher education; designation of interscholastic, intercollegiate, intramural, and club athletic teams and sports based on biological sex; student participation in female teams or sports; civil cause of action. Requires each interscholastic, intercollegiate, intramural, or club athletic team or sport sponsored by a public elementary or secondary school or by a public institution of higher education to be expressly designated as one of the following based on biological sex: (i) males, men, or boys; (ii) females, women, or girls; or (iii) coed or mixed if participation on such team or sport is open to both (a) males, men, or boys and (b) females, women, or girls. The bill requires identification of the student's biological sex on an athletics eligibility form signed by a licensed physician, nurse practitioner, or physician assistant to be submitted by any such student who desires to try out for or participate in an interscholastic, intercollegiate, intramural, or club athletic team or sport. The bill prohibits any such team or sport that is expressly designated for females, women, or girls from being open to students whose biological sex is male. The bill further prohibits any interscholastic, intercollegiate, intramural, or club athletic team or sport sponsored by a public elementary or secondary school or a public institution of higher education from competing against any interscholastic, intercollegiate, intramural, or club athletic team or sport sponsored by a private elementary or secondary school or private institution of higher education in the Commonwealth unless such private school or institution complies with the applicable provisions of the bill. The bill prohibits any government entity, licensing or accrediting organization, or athletic association or organization from entertaining a complaint, opening an investigation, or taking any other adverse action against public school or institution of higher education based on a violation of the provisions of the bill and creates a cause of action for any school or institution of higher education that suffers harm as a result of a violation of the bill. Finally, the bill creates a civil cause of action for any student that suffers harm as a result of a knowing violation of a provision of the bill by a school or institution or as a result of the student's reporting a violation of a provision of the bill by a school, institution, athletic association, or organization.

Legislative Session

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2023 Regular Session

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Calendar

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2023-02-1608:30HearingSenate Room A, Pocahontas BuildingSenate Committee on Education and Health Hearing
2023-02-0309:30HearingHouse Committee RoomHouse Education Committee Hearing
2023-02-0108:00HearingHouse Committee RoomHouse Education Committee Hearing
2023-01-3008:30HearingHouse Committee RoomHouse Education Committee Hearing
2023-01-3007:00HearingHouse Committee RoomHouse Education - Higher Education Subcommittee Hearing

History

DateAction
2023-02-16Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (10-Y 5-N)
2023-02-08Referred to Committee on Education and Health
2023-02-08Constitutional reading dispensed
2023-02-07VOTE: Passage (51-Y 47-N)
2023-02-07Read third time and passed House (51-Y 47-N)
2023-02-06Printed as engrossed 23100643D-E
2023-02-06VOTE: Engrossment (51-Y 47-N)
2023-02-06Engrossed by House as amended (51-Y 47-N) HB1387E
2023-02-06Committee amendments agreed to
2023-02-06Read second time
2023-02-05Read first time
2023-02-03Reported from Education with amendment(s) (11-Y 10-N)
2023-01-30Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (6-Y 4-N)
2023-01-20Assigned Education sub: Higher Education
2022-11-15Referred to Committee on Education
2022-11-15Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23100643D