Bill Text: TX SB91 | 2017 | 85th Legislature 1st Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the regulation of certain facilities and activities of political subdivisions, including public school districts, and open-enrollment charter schools.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-07-21 - Left pending in committee [SB91 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB91-Introduced.html
By: Kolkhorst | S.B. No. 91 | |
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relating to the regulation of certain facilities and activities of | ||
political subdivisions, including public school districts, and | ||
open-enrollment charter schools. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. The heading to Chapter 250, Local Government | ||
Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
CHAPTER 250. MISCELLANEOUS REGULATORY AUTHORITY OF | ||
MUNICIPALITIES, [AND] COUNTIES, AND OTHER LOCAL GOVERNMENTS | ||
SECTION 2. Chapter 250, Local Government Code, is amended | ||
by adding Section 250.009 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 250.009. REGULATION OF CERTAIN FACILITIES AND | ||
ACTIVITIES. (a) Each multiple-occupancy restroom, shower, and | ||
changing facility of a political subdivision, including a public | ||
school district, or an open-enrollment charter school must be | ||
designated for and used only by persons of the same sex as stated on | ||
a person's birth certificate. | ||
(b) Except in accordance with federal law and state law, a | ||
political subdivision, including a public school district, or an | ||
open-enrollment charter school may not adopt or enforce an order, | ||
ordinance, policy, or other measure to protect a class of persons | ||
from discrimination to the extent that the order, ordinance, | ||
policy, or other measure regulates: | ||
(1) access to multiple-occupancy restrooms, showers, | ||
or changing facilities; or | ||
(2) participation in athletic activities. | ||
(c) This section may be enforced only through an action | ||
instituted by the attorney general for mandamus or injunctive | ||
relief. The attorney general may recover costs and attorney's fees | ||
related to enforcing this section. | ||
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 on the 91st day after the last day of the | ||
legislative session. |