| 1 | | - | By: Hughes, et al. S.B. No. 810 |
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| 2 | | - | (In the Senate - Filed January 16, 2025; February 7, 2025, |
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| 3 | | - | read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs; |
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| 4 | | - | March 17, 2025, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 10, |
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| 5 | | - | Nays 0; March 17, 2025, sent to printer.) |
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| 6 | | - | Click here to see the committee vote |
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| 1 | + | 89R5513 BCH-D |
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| 2 | + | By: Hughes S.B. No. 810 |
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| 9 | 7 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 10 | 8 | | AN ACT |
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| 11 | 9 | | relating to protection for a public school employee's use of terms |
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| 12 | 10 | | consistent with biological sex. |
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| 13 | 11 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 14 | 12 | | SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 22, Education Code, is |
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| 15 | 13 | | amended by adding Section 22.905 to read as follows: |
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| 16 | 14 | | Sec. 22.905. PROTECTION FOR USE OF TERMS CONSISTENT WITH |
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| 17 | 15 | | BIOLOGICAL SEX. A school district or open-enrollment charter |
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| 18 | 16 | | school may not discipline, retaliate against, or otherwise |
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| 19 | 17 | | discriminate against a district or school employee who addresses a |
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| 20 | 18 | | student or another district or school employee in terms consistent |
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| 21 | 19 | | with the biological sex of the student or employee. |
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| 22 | 20 | | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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| 23 | 21 | | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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| 24 | 22 | | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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| 25 | 23 | | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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| 26 | 24 | | Act takes effect September 1, 2025. |
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