Mississippi House Bill 176

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 7-0)
Status: Failed on March 5 2024 - 100% progression
Action: 2024-03-05 - Died In Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

An Act To Require School Administrators, Teachers, Counselors Or Other Personnel Of The School To Provide Written Notification To The Parent Or Legal Guardian Of Any Student Identifying At School As A Gender Or Pronoun That Does Not Align With The Child's Sex On Their Birth Certificate, Other Official Records, Sex Assigned At Birth, Or Identifying As An Animal Species, Extraterrestrial Being Or Inanimate Object, Or Using Sex-segregated School Programs And Activities Or School Facilities That Do Not Align With The Child's Sex Assignment At Birth, Within Three Days Of Becoming Aware Of Such Conduct Or Request By The Affected Student; To Provide That No School Personnel Shall Be Disciplined Or Suffer Any Unlawful Reprisal For Refusing To Acknowledge A Student By A Preferred Gender, Pronoun, Animal Species, Extraterrestrial Being Or Inanimate Object That Is Inconsistent With The Child's Sex Assignment At Birth; To Prescribe The Legislative Intent; And For Related Purposes.

Gender dysphoria; require school personnel to notify parents of student who request to be referred to as different gender or nonhuman.

Rep. Charles Blackwell [R]	Rep. William Arnold [R]	Rep. Randy Boyd [R]	Rep. Larry Byrd [R]
Rep. Dan Eubanks [R]	Rep. Jimmy Fondren [R]	Rep. Donnie Scoggin [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-03-05	House	Died In Committee
2024-01-17	House	Referred To Education

Type	Source
Summary	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2024/pdf/history/HB/HB0176.xml
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/HB/0100-0199/HB0176IN.htm