By: Perry, et al. S.B. No. 29
(In the Senate - Filed March 11, 2021; March 11, 2021, read
first time and referred to Committee on Education; March 17, 2021,
rereferred to Committee on State Affairs; March 30, 2021, reported
adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the following
vote: Yeas 5, Nays 2; March 30, 2021, sent to printer.)
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COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 29 By: Birdwell
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to requiring public school students to compete in
interscholastic athletic competitions 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 COMPETITION 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 compete in an interscholastic athletic competition sponsored or
authorized by the district or school that is designated for the
biological sex opposite to the student's biological sex as
determined 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 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.
(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
determined 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.
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