By: Hughes, et al. S.B. No. 810
(In the Senate - Filed January 16, 2025; February 7, 2025,
read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
March 17, 2025, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 10,
Nays 0; March 17, 2025, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to protection for a public school employee's use of terms
consistent with biological sex.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 22, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 22.905 to read as follows:
Sec. 22.905. PROTECTION FOR USE OF TERMS CONSISTENT WITH
BIOLOGICAL SEX. A school district or open-enrollment charter
school may not discipline, retaliate against, or otherwise
discriminate against a district or school employee who addresses a
student or another district or school employee in terms consistent
with the biological sex of the student or employee.
SECTION 2. 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, 2025.
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