87(3) SB 3 - Engrossed version - Bill Text

	By:  Perry, et al.	S.B.  No.  3

	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	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 to any interscholastic athletic
	competition sponsored or authorized by a school district or
	open-enrollment charter school that occurs on or after the
	effective date of this Act.
	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.