HB 2062
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ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Fifty-seventh Legislature
First Regular Session
House: GOV DPA 4-3-0-0
HB 2062: sex-based terms; laws; rules; regulations
Sponsor: Representative Fink, LD 27
Caucus & COW
Overview
Conforms the definitions of certain sex-based terms across Arizona's statutes and any
administrative rules, regulations and public policies adopted by the state or its political
subdivisions. Prescribes requirements for certain sex-based policies and data collections.
History
The rules and definitions set forth in the Arizona Revised Statutes' rules of statutory
construction must be observed in the construction of laws in the state unless such
construction would be inconsistent with the manifest intent of the Legislature (A.R.S. § 1-
211).
Provisions
1. Requires any policy, rule, program or law prohibiting sex discrimination to also prohibit
the unfair treatment of a similarly situated member of the opposite sex. (Sec. 1)
2. Allows Arizona and its political subdivisions to provide for separate, single-sex
environments. (Sec. 1)
3. Specifies that single-sex environments include athletics, living facilities, locker rooms,
bathrooms, domestic violence shelters and sexual assault crisis centers. (Sec. 1)
4. Instructs this state and its political subdivisions, including public schools and public
school districts, that collect vital sex related statistics, to identify each natural person as
either male or female. (Sec. 1)
5. Specifies that this measure does not require the collection of data regarding sex unless
otherwise required by law or prevent the collection of additional data points other than
biological sex. (Sec. 1)
6. Defines, for the purposes of the Arizona Revised Statutes and any administrative rules,
regulations and public policies adopted by the state or its political subdivisions, boy,
equal, father, female, girl, male, man, mother and sex. (Sec. 1).
7. Contains a legislative purpose statement and a severability clause. (Sec. 2, 3)
8. Entitles this act as the Arizona Sex-based Terms Act. (Sec. 4)
Amendments
Committee on Government
1. Corrects a referencing error.
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