KY HB459 | 2020 | Regular Session
Status
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)
Status: Introduced on February 19 2020 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-02-21 - to Education (H)
Pending: House Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]
Status: Introduced on February 19 2020 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-02-21 - to Education (H)
Pending: House Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]
Summary
Amend KRS 156.070 to require the Kentucky Board of Education or agency designated by the board of education to manage interscholastic athletics to promulgate administrative regulations or bylaws requiring schools that participate in interscholastic athletics to designate all athletic teams, activities, and sports based upon the biological sex of the students eligible to participate; prohibiting male students from participating in athletic teams, activities, and sports designated as girls; and defining the methods of establishing a students' biological sex; prohibit designated agencies from entertaining complaints or investigations of policies; create a cause of action against a school that violates these provisions; require that the action be brought within 2 years; create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to require a public postsecondary education institution or private postsecondary education institution that is a member of a national intercollegiate athletic association to designate all intercollegiate and intramural athletic teams, activities, sports, and events that are sponsored or authorized by the institution based on biological sex of students eligible to participate; require that those institutions prohibit male students from participating in athletic teams, activities, and sports designated as womens'; and define the methods of establishing a postsecondary student's biological sex; prohibit designated agencies from entertaining complaints or investigations of policies; create a cause of action against a postsecondary institution that violates these provisions; require that the action be brought within 2 years; title the Act: "Save Women’s Sports Act."
Title
AN ACT relating to athletics.
Sponsors
Rep. Regina Huff [R] | Rep. Kim King [R] | Rep. Savannah Maddox [R] | Rep. Melinda Prunty [R] |
Rep. Nancy Tate [R] |
History
Date | Chamber | Action |
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2020-02-21 | House | to Education (H) |
2020-02-19 | House | introduced in House |
Subjects
Administrative Regulations and Proceedings
Athletics
Boards and Commissions
Children and Minors
Civil Actions
Claims
Education, Elementary and Secondary
Education, Higher
Short Titles and Popular Names
Universities and Colleges
Women
Athletics
Boards and Commissions
Children and Minors
Civil Actions
Claims
Education, Elementary and Secondary
Education, Higher
Short Titles and Popular Names
Universities and Colleges
Women
Kentucky State Sources
Type | Source |
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Summary | https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/20RS/hb459.html |
Text | https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/20RS/hb459/orig_bill.pdf |