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Relating to parental and guardian consent and information regarding the gender identity of students enrolled in a school district or charter school
Sponsored by the House Education Committee
Topics:K–12 education
Same legislation: HF 9
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 11, 2023
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 12, 2023
- Done: House committeeJanuary 31, 2023
- Stopped: Passes the HouseDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2024 session adjourned on April 19, 2024, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary Schools and charter schools would be prohibited from helping a student change their gender identity at school without written permission from a parent or guardian. The law also prevents school staff from hiding a student's gender identity from their parents or pressuring students and families to undergo medical treatments. These rules apply to any student whose gender identity is different from the sex listed on their birth certificate.1
Read the official explanation
This bill relates to parental and guardian consent and information regarding the gender identity of students enrolled in a school district or charter school. The bill prohibits school districts and charter schools from facilitating any accommodation that is intended to affirm a student’s gender identity, if that gender identity is different than the sex listed on the student’s official birth certificate, without the written consent of the student’s parent or guardian; encouraging or coercing any student to withhold information from the student’s parent or guardian related to the student’s gender identity; willfully withholding information from, or knowingly giving false or misleading information to, the parent or guardian of a student regarding the student’s gender identity or intention to transition to a gender that is different than the sex listed on a student’s official birth certificate; encouraging, pressuring, or coercing a student to undergo any medical procedure, treatment, or intervention that is designed to affirm the student’s gender identity if that gender identity is different than the sex listed on a student’s official birth certificate; or encouraging, pressuring, or coercing a student’s parent or guardian to allow the student to undergo any medical procedure, treatment, or intervention that is designed to affirm the student’s gender identity if that gender identity is different than the sex listed on the student’s official birth certificate. The bill defines “gender identity” as a gender-related identity of a person, regardless of the person’s assigned sex at birth.
226 written public comments to its subcommittee: January 31, 2023 (226) · on the Legislature’s site
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