Bill Text: NJ A2224 | 2014-2015 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Permits a student to participate in sex-segregated school activities and use facilities consistent with the student's gender identity.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2014-10-27 - Withdrawn from Consideration [A2224 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2014-A2224-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 2224

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

216th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED JANUARY 27, 2014

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  JOHN J. BURZICHELLI

District 3 (Cumberland, Gloucester and Salem)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Permits a student to participate in sex-segregated school activities and use facilities consistent with the student's gender identity.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  

An Act concerning student gender identity and supplementing chapter 36 of Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes.

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    A pupil in a public school shall be permitted to participate in sex-segregated school programs and activities, including athletic teams and competitions, and use facilities consistent with the pupil's gender identity, irrespective of the gender listed on the pupil's records.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     Current law, section 1 of P.L.1973, c.380 (C.18A:36-20), prohibits a public school from discriminating against a student on the basis of certain specified characteristics, including sex.  In addition, the New Jersey "Law Against Discrimination," at section 4 of P.L.1945, c.169 (C.10:5-4), provides that all persons shall have the opportunity "to obtain all the accommodations, advantages, facilities, and privileges of any place of public accommodation," including public schools, without discrimination on the basis of specified characteristics, including sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity or expression.

     This bill requires that a student in a public school be permitted to participate in sex-segregated school programs and activities, including athletic teams and competitions, and use facilities consistent with the student's gender identity, irrespective of the gender listed on the student's records.