Georgia Council on Library Materials Standards; establish and provide
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to education, so as to establish and provide for the Georgia Council on Library Materials Standards; to provide for definitions, including definitions for the terms "harmful to minors," "restricted materials," and "sexually explicit materials"; to require the Georgia Council on Library Materials Standards to establish standards for the designation of restricted materials by local boards of education, standards for the use and restriction of instructional materials, and standards for the use and restriction of public school library collection materials; to provide for definitions; to provide for short titles; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
2025-2026 Regular Session
No public school or local school system shall provide sex education before the sixth grade [...] 'Sex education' includes any curricula or instruction that has the goal or purpose of studying, exploring, or informing students about [...] an internal or deeply felt sense of the student's sex.
'Inappropriate sex based topics' means any of the following topics: (A) A person's internal or deeply felt sense of his or her sex; (B) Whether a person's internal sense of sex aligns with his or her sex; (C) Pharmaceutical or medical treatment, hormone therapy, surgery, or removal of genitalia when administered or performed for the purpose of intentionally changing the body of such person to no longer correspond to his or her sex; [...] (G) Sexual expression and different ways to express one's sex; or (H) Changing one's name, pronouns, or personal titles to conform to one's perceived sex or identity.
(A) No school employee or other person shall modify a child's official private or public school record [...] to reflect a change in the child's name, sex, or gender without the written consent of all of the child's parents [...] (B) No employee, contractor, or student [...] shall be required to refer to another person using that person's preferred personal title or pronouns if such personal title or pronouns do not correspond to that person's sex or is not listed on that person's birth certificate; (C) No employee or contractor [...] shall refer to a student using that person's preferred personal title or pronouns if such personal title or pronouns do not correspond to that person's sex or is not listed on that person's birth certificate without the written consent of all of the child's parents with custodial rights or legal guardians; (D) No student shall be asked by an employee or contractor [...] to provide his or her preferred personal title or pronouns or be penalized or subjected to adverse or discriminatory treatment for not providing his or her preferred personal title or pronouns; and (E) No employee or contractor [...] shall provide to a student such employee's or contractor's preferred personal title or pronouns if such preferred personal title or pronouns do not correspond to his or her sex.
History
| Date | Action |
|---|---|
| 2025-02-26 | Senate Read and Referred |
| 2025-02-24 | Senate Hopper |