Bill Text: TX SB373 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to requiring public school students to participate in interscholastic athletic activities based on biological sex.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-09 - Referred to State Affairs [SB373 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB373-Introduced.html
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| By: Perry | S.B. No. 373 | |
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| relating to requiring public school students to participate in | ||
| interscholastic athletic activities based on biological 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 PARTICIPATION BASED | ||
| ON BIOLOGICAL SEX. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), an | ||
| interscholastic athletic team sponsored or authorized by a school | ||
| district or open-enrollment charter school may not allow a student | ||
| to participate in an interscholastic athletic activity sponsored or | ||
| authorized by the district or school that is designated for the | ||
| biological sex opposite to the student's biological sex as assigned | ||
| at the student's birth and correctly stated on the student's | ||
| official birth certificate. | ||
| (b) An interscholastic athletic team described by | ||
| Subsection (a) may allow a female student to participate in an | ||
| interscholastic athletic activity that is designated for male | ||
| students if a corresponding interscholastic athletic activity | ||
| designated for female students is not offered or available. | ||
| (c) For purposes of this section, a statement of a student's | ||
| biological sex on the student's official birth certificate is | ||
| considered to have correctly stated the student's biological sex as | ||
| assigned at the student's birth if the statement was: | ||
| (1) entered at or near the time of the student's birth, | ||
| as determined by University Interscholastic League rule; or | ||
| (2) modified to correct a clerical error in the | ||
| student's biological sex. | ||
| 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. | ||
