This bill modifies provisions regarding sex-designated privacy spaces in education and government facilities.
This bill:
- defines terms;
- requires the Utah Board of Higher Education to provide guidance regarding student housing that degree-granting institutions own or control;
- provides a definitional change for nonprofit exceptions to and broadens the scope of a nonprofit educational institution exception to the Utah Fair Housing Act;
- narrows an exception for a prohibition on sex-based distinctions to apply only to a determination of the School Activity Eligibility Commission and a student's participation in a certain gender-designated interscholastic activity;
- removes an ambiguous medical treatment documentation provision from certain lists of evidence supporting an individual's access to certain sex-designated privacy spaces;
- amends provisions regarding government entity facility compliance to specify which government entity bears certain duties;
- requires degree-granting institutions to comply with sex designations in assigning students to dwelling units within the institution's sex-designated student housing; and
- makes technical and conforming changes.
Statutes affected: Introduced: 53B-1-118, 53G-6-1005, 57-21-3, 63G-31-101, 63G-31-201, 63G-31-202, 63G-31-301, 63G-31-302, 63G-31-304
Enrolled: 53B-1-118, 53G-6-1005, 57-21-3, 63G-31-101, 63G-31-201, 63G-31-202, 63G-31-301, 63G-31-302, 63G-31-304
Amended 2/6/2025 15:02:716: 53B-1-118, 53G-6-1005, 57-21-3, 63G-31-101, 63G-31-201, 63G-31-202, 63G-31-301, 63G-31-302, 63G-31-304
Substitute #1: 53B-1-118, 53G-6-1005, 57-21-3, 63G-31-101, 63G-31-201, 63G-31-202, 63G-31-301, 63G-31-302, 63G-31-304