Revises provisions relating to athletics. (BDR 34-36)
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)
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 against a public school, a private school, a school district or the Association for maintaining separate interscholastic or intramural athletic teams or sports for pupils of the female sex or the male sex.
History
| Date | Action |
|---|---|
| 2025-02-03 | Read first time. To committee. |
| 2025-01-27 | From printer. |
| 2025-01-23 | Prefiled. Referred to Committee on Education. To printer. |