Bill Text: TX HB96 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 2nd Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to requiring public school students to compete in interscholastic athletic competitions based on biological sex.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 18-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-08-23 - Referred to Public Education [HB96 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB96-Introduced.html
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| By: Hefner | H.B. No. 96 | |
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| relating to requiring public school students to compete in | ||
| interscholastic athletic competitions based on biological sex. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 33, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 33.0834 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 33.0834. INTERSCHOLASTIC ATHLETIC COMPETITION BASED | ||
| ON BIOLOGICAL SEX. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), an | ||
| interscholastic athletic team sponsored or authorized by a school | ||
| district or open-enrollment charter school may not allow a student | ||
| to compete in an interscholastic athletic competition sponsored or | ||
| authorized by the district or school that is designated for the | ||
| biological sex opposite to the student's biological sex as | ||
| correctly stated on: | ||
| (1) the student's official birth certificate, as | ||
| described by Subsection (c); or | ||
| (2) if the student's official birth certificate | ||
| described by Subdivision (1) is unobtainable, another government | ||
| record. | ||
| (b) An interscholastic athletic team described by | ||
| Subsection (a) may allow a female student to compete in an | ||
| interscholastic athletic competition that is designated for male | ||
| students if a corresponding interscholastic athletic competition | ||
| designated for female students is not offered or available. | ||
| (c) For purposes of this section, a statement of a student's | ||
| biological sex on the student's official birth certificate is | ||
| considered to have correctly stated the student's biological sex | ||
| only if the statement was: | ||
| (1) entered at or near the time of the student's birth; | ||
| or | ||
| (2) modified to correct a clerical error in the | ||
| student's biological sex. | ||
| (d) The University Interscholastic League shall adopt rules | ||
| to implement this section, provided that the rules must be approved | ||
| by the commissioner in accordance with Section 33.083(b). | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2021-2022 | ||
| school year. | ||
| SECTION 3. 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 on the 91st day after the last day of the | ||
| legislative session. | ||
