CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20252026 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 89Introduced by Assembly Member SanchezJanuary 06, 2025 An act to add Section 33353.8 to the Education Code, relating to interscholastic sports. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 89, as introduced, Sanchez. Interscholastic sports: gender equity.Existing law recognizes the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) to be a voluntary organization that consists of school and school-related personnel with responsibility for administering interscholastic athletic activities in secondary schools. Existing law requires the CIF to report, as provided, to the appropriate policy committees of the Legislature and the Governor on its goals and objectives with regard to, and the status of, among other things, gender equity in interscholastic athletics, including, but not limited to, the number of male and female pupils participating in interscholastic athletics in secondary schools, and actions it has taken in order to ensure compliance with Title IX of the federal Education Amendments of 1972.This bill would require the CIF to amend its constitution, bylaws, and policies to prohibit a pupil whose sex was assigned male at birth from participating on a girls interscholastic sports team.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO Bill TextThe people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Section 33353.8 is added to the Education Code, to read:33353.8. Notwithstanding any other law, the California Interscholastic Federation shall amend its constitution, bylaws, and policies to prohibit a pupil whose sex was assigned male at birth from participating on a girls interscholastic sports team.
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20252026 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 89Introduced by Assembly Member SanchezJanuary 06, 2025 An act to add Section 33353.8 to the Education Code, relating to interscholastic sports. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 89, as introduced, Sanchez. Interscholastic sports: gender equity.Existing law recognizes the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) to be a voluntary organization that consists of school and school-related personnel with responsibility for administering interscholastic athletic activities in secondary schools. Existing law requires the CIF to report, as provided, to the appropriate policy committees of the Legislature and the Governor on its goals and objectives with regard to, and the status of, among other things, gender equity in interscholastic athletics, including, but not limited to, the number of male and female pupils participating in interscholastic athletics in secondary schools, and actions it has taken in order to ensure compliance with Title IX of the federal Education Amendments of 1972.This bill would require the CIF to amend its constitution, bylaws, and policies to prohibit a pupil whose sex was assigned male at birth from participating on a girls interscholastic sports team.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20252026 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 89
Introduced by Assembly Member SanchezJanuary 06, 2025
Introduced by Assembly Member Sanchez
January 06, 2025
An act to add Section 33353.8 to the Education Code, relating to interscholastic sports.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
## LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 89, as introduced, Sanchez. Interscholastic sports: gender equity.
Existing law recognizes the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) to be a voluntary organization that consists of school and school-related personnel with responsibility for administering interscholastic athletic activities in secondary schools. Existing law requires the CIF to report, as provided, to the appropriate policy committees of the Legislature and the Governor on its goals and objectives with regard to, and the status of, among other things, gender equity in interscholastic athletics, including, but not limited to, the number of male and female pupils participating in interscholastic athletics in secondary schools, and actions it has taken in order to ensure compliance with Title IX of the federal Education Amendments of 1972.This bill would require the CIF to amend its constitution, bylaws, and policies to prohibit a pupil whose sex was assigned male at birth from participating on a girls interscholastic sports team.
Existing law recognizes the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) to be a voluntary organization that consists of school and school-related personnel with responsibility for administering interscholastic athletic activities in secondary schools. Existing law requires the CIF to report, as provided, to the appropriate policy committees of the Legislature and the Governor on its goals and objectives with regard to, and the status of, among other things, gender equity in interscholastic athletics, including, but not limited to, the number of male and female pupils participating in interscholastic athletics in secondary schools, and actions it has taken in order to ensure compliance with Title IX of the federal Education Amendments of 1972.
This bill would require the CIF to amend its constitution, bylaws, and policies to prohibit a pupil whose sex was assigned male at birth from participating on a girls interscholastic sports team.
## Digest Key
## Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Section 33353.8 is added to the Education Code, to read:33353.8. Notwithstanding any other law, the California Interscholastic Federation shall amend its constitution, bylaws, and policies to prohibit a pupil whose sex was assigned male at birth from participating on a girls interscholastic sports team.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
## The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. Section 33353.8 is added to the Education Code, to read:33353.8. Notwithstanding any other law, the California Interscholastic Federation shall amend its constitution, bylaws, and policies to prohibit a pupil whose sex was assigned male at birth from participating on a girls interscholastic sports team.
SECTION 1. Section 33353.8 is added to the Education Code, to read:
### SECTION 1.
33353.8. Notwithstanding any other law, the California Interscholastic Federation shall amend its constitution, bylaws, and policies to prohibit a pupil whose sex was assigned male at birth from participating on a girls interscholastic sports team.
33353.8. Notwithstanding any other law, the California Interscholastic Federation shall amend its constitution, bylaws, and policies to prohibit a pupil whose sex was assigned male at birth from participating on a girls interscholastic sports team.
33353.8. Notwithstanding any other law, the California Interscholastic Federation shall amend its constitution, bylaws, and policies to prohibit a pupil whose sex was assigned male at birth from participating on a girls interscholastic sports team.
33353.8. Notwithstanding any other law, the California Interscholastic Federation shall amend its constitution, bylaws, and policies to prohibit a pupil whose sex was assigned male at birth from participating on a girls interscholastic sports team.