Bill Text: IL HB1562 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Interscholastic Athletic Organization Act. Provides that any athletic team or sport that is under the jurisdiction of an association or entity that provides for interscholastic athletics or athletic competition among schools and student must be expressly designated as (i) a male athletic team or sport, (ii) a female athletic team or sport, or (iii) a coeducational athletic team or sport. Provides that an athletic team or sport designated as being female is available only to participants who are female, based on their biological sex. Requires a school district or nonpublic school to obtain a written statement signed by a student's parent or guardian or the student verifying the student's age, biological sex, and that the student has not taken performance enhancing drugs; provides for a penalty for false or misleading statements. Prohibits a governmental entity or an association or entity that provides for interscholastic athletics or athletic competition among schools and students from entertaining a complaint, opening an investigation, or taking any other adverse action against a school district or nonpublic school for maintaining athletic teams or sports in accordance with these provisions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 8-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-12 - Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Jed Davis [HB1562 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB1562-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB1562 Introduced , by Rep. David Friess SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
105 ILCS 25/1.25 new
Amends the Interscholastic Athletic Organization Act. Provides that any athletic team or sport that is under the jurisdiction of an association or entity that provides for interscholastic athletics or athletic competition among schools and student must be expressly designated as (i) a male athletic team or sport, (ii) a female athletic team or sport, or (iii) a coeducational athletic team or sport. Provides that an athletic team or sport designated as being female is available only to participants who are female, based on their biological sex. Requires a school district or nonpublic school to obtain a written statement signed by a student's parent or guardian or the student verifying the student's age, biological sex, and that the student has not taken performance enhancing drugs; provides for a penalty for false or misleading statements. Prohibits a governmental entity or an association or entity that provides for interscholastic athletics or athletic competition among schools and students from entertaining a complaint, opening an investigation, or taking any other adverse action against a school district or nonpublic school for maintaining athletic teams or sports in accordance with these provisions.
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AN ACT concerning education.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Interscholastic Athletic Organization Act
is amended by adding Section 1.25 as follows:
(105 ILCS 25/1.25 new)
Sec. 1.25. Designation of team or sport based on
biological sex.
(a) Any athletic team or sport that is under the
jurisdiction of an association or other entity that has as one
of its purposes promoting, sponsoring, regulating, or in any
manner providing for interscholastic athletics or any form of
athletic competition among schools and students within this
State must be expressly designated as being:
(1) a male athletic team or sport;
(2) a female athletic team or sport; or
(3) a coeducational athletic team or sport.
(b) An athletic team or sport designated as being female
is available only to participants who are female, based on
their biological sex.
(c) Once each school year and before allowing a student to
participate on an athletic team or sport, the school district
or nonpublic school that the student attends shall obtain a

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written statement verifying all of the following:
(1) The student's age.
(2) The student's biological sex, as ascertained at or
before birth in accordance with the student's genetics and
reproductive biology.
(3) That the student is not taking and has not taken
during the preceding 12 months any performance enhancing
drugs, including anabolic steroids.
The statement must be signed by the student's parent or
guardian if the student is under the age of 18 years or by the
student if the student is 18 years of age or older.
(d) If the school district or nonpublic school that the
student attends has reasonable cause to believe that any
information provided in accordance with this Section is false
or misleading, the school district or nonpublic school may
remove the student from any sport or athletic team and
prohibit the student's participation in any sport or on any
athletic team for the duration of the school year.
(e) A governmental entity or an association or other
entity that has as one of its purposes promoting, sponsoring,
regulating, or in any manner providing for interscholastic
athletics or any form of athletic competition among schools
and students within this State may not entertain a complaint,
open an investigation, or take any adverse action against a
school district or nonpublic school for maintaining athletic
teams or sports in accordance with this Section.