Bill Text: TX SB29 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to requiring public school students to compete in interscholastic athletic competitions based on sex and a study conducted by the University Interscholastic League on the effects of allowing a student to participate in an athletic competition designated for the sex opposite to the student's sex.
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 17-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-05-25 - Nonrecord vote recorded in Journal [SB29 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB29-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Perry, et al. | S.B. No. 29 | |
| (Dutton, King of Hemphill) | ||
| Substitute the following for S.B. No. 29: No. | ||
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| relating to requiring public school students to compete in | ||
| interscholastic athletic competitions based on sex and a study | ||
| conducted by the University Interscholastic League on the effects | ||
| of allowing a student to participate in an athletic competition | ||
| designated for the sex opposite to the student's sex. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 33, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 33.0832 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 33.0832. INTERSCHOLASTIC ATHLETIC COMPETITION BASED | ||
| ON SEX. (a) In this section, "league" means the University | ||
| Interscholastic League. | ||
| (b) Except as provided by Subsection (c), an | ||
| interscholastic athletic team sponsored or authorized by a school | ||
| district or open-enrollment charter school may not allow a student | ||
| to compete in an interscholastic athletic competition sponsored or | ||
| authorized by the district or school that is designated for the sex | ||
| opposite to the student's sex as correctly stated on: | ||
| (1) the student's official birth certificate; or | ||
| (2) if the student's official birth certificate is | ||
| unobtainable, another government record. | ||
| (c) An interscholastic athletic team described by | ||
| Subsection (b) may allow a female student to compete in an | ||
| interscholastic athletic competition that is designated for male | ||
| students if a corresponding interscholastic athletic competition | ||
| designated for female students is not offered or available. | ||
| (d) The league shall conduct a study to determine if | ||
| allowing a student to participate in an interscholastic athletic | ||
| competition that is sponsored or authorized by a school district or | ||
| open-enrollment charter school and is designated for the sex | ||
| opposite to the student's sex: | ||
| (1) causes disruptions among the student's | ||
| interscholastic athletic team; or | ||
| (2) restricts opportunities for students of the sex | ||
| for which the competition is designated. | ||
| (e) Not later than December 1, 2026, the league shall submit | ||
| to the legislature a report on the results of the study conducted | ||
| under Subsection (d) and any recommendations for legislative or | ||
| other action. | ||
| (f) The league shall adopt rules to implement this section, | ||
| provided that the rules must be approved by the commissioner in | ||
| accordance with Section 33.083(b). | ||
| (g) This section expires September 1, 2027. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2021-2022 | ||
| school year. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
