Bill Text: AZ HB2293 | 2022 | Fifty-fifth Legislature 2nd Regular | Introduced

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Bill Title: School employees; students; gender pronouns

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-19 - House read second time [HB2293 Detail]

Download: Arizona-2022-HB2293-Introduced.html

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REFERENCE TITLE: school employees; students; gender pronouns

 

 

 

 

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-fifth Legislature

Second Regular Session

2022

 

 

 

HB 2293

 

Introduced by

Representatives Fillmore: Carter, Chaplik, Parker

 

 

AN ACT

 

amending Title 15, chapter 5, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 15-509; relating to school employees.

 

 

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

 

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1. Title 15, chapter 5, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 15-509, to read:

START_STATUTE15-509. School employees and officers; student sex or gender pronouns; prohibitions

A public school may not:

1. Require a school superintendent, principal or teacher or another officer or employee of a public school to use a sex or gender pronoun in reference to a student other than the sex or gender pronoun that corresponds to the sex listed on that student's birth certificate.

2. Penalize a school superintendent, principal or teacher or another officer or employee of a public school for refusing to use a sex or gender pronoun in reference to a student other than the sex or gender pronoun that corresponds to the sex listed on that student's birth certificate. END_STATUTE