Bill Text: AZ HB2082 | 2020 | Fifty-fourth Legislature 2nd Regular | Introduced


Bill Title: School employees; students; gender pronouns

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-05-19 - Assigned to House RULES Committee [HB2082 Detail]

Download: Arizona-2020-HB2082-Introduced.html

 

 

PREFILED    JAN 02 2020

REFERENCE TITLE: school employees; students; gender pronouns

 

 

 

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-fourth Legislature

Second Regular Session

2020

 

 

HB 2082

 

Introduced by

Representative Fillmore

 

 

AN ACT

 

amending Title 15, chapter 5, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 15-505; relating to school employees.

 

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

 


Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1.  Title 15, chapter 5, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 15-505, to read:

START_STATUTE15-505.  School employees and officers; student sex or gender pronouns; prohibitions

A public school may not:

1.  Require a school superintendent, principal or teacher or another officer or employee of a public school to use a sex or gender pronoun in reference to a student other than the sex or gender pronoun that corresponds to the sex listed on that student's birth certificate.

2.  Penalize a school superintendent, principal or teacher or another officer or employee of a public school for refusing to use a sex or gender pronoun in reference to a student other than the sex or gender pronoun that corresponds to the sex listed on that student's birth certificate. END_STATUTE

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