Schools; prohibiting a school district or charter school from compelling use of certain pronoun; providing for monitoring of compliance. Effective date. Emergency.
2024 Regular Session
A. No school district or charter school in this state shall compel an employee or volunteer to refer to a student with a pronoun other than that which corresponds to the student’s biological sex. For the purposes of this section, “biological sex” means the physical condition of being male or female based on genetics and physiology as identified on the student’s original birth certificate.
B. No print or nonprint materials or multimedia resources located in a school district or charter school classroom, library, or elsewhere on the premises of the district or charter school shall refer to an individual by a name or by a pronoun that does not correspond to the individual’s biological sex.
History
| Date | Action |
|---|---|
| 2024-02-06 | Second Reading referred to Education |
| 2024-02-05 | Authored by Senator Bullard |
| 2024-02-05 | First Reading |