SS/SCS/SB 781 - This act establishes the "Save Women's Sports Act."

No athletic team or sport designated for biological females, as defined in the act, shall be open to students that are biological males, as defined in the act.

No governmental entity, licensing or accrediting organization, or athletic association or organization shall take any adverse action, as described in the act, against a school for maintaining separate interscholastic or intramural athletic teams or sports for students that are biological females.

No public or private middle school or high school or a public or private institution of postsecondary education that has biological males playing biological female   s sports shall be eligible for money appropriated by the General Assembly.

This act is similar to SB 503 (2021).

JAMIE ANDREWS

Statutes affected:
Introduced (4177S.01): 167.780
Committee (4177S.02): 167.780
Floor Substitute (4177S.07): 167.780

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Senate Committee Minutes:
SENATE COMMITTEE MINUTES Bill No.: SB 781
Sponsor: Moon
Hearing Date: 3/1/2022


COMMITTEE: Education

CHAIRMAN: O'Laughlin

DATE REFERRED: 1/13/2022 DATE HEARING REQUESTED: 1/18/2022



STAFF:
Fred Barnes
Kitty Engler
Heidi Kolkmeyer


WITNESSES GIVING INFORMATION:
Bev Ehlen - Concerned Woman for America


WITNESSES FOR:
Jenny Schulze - Self
Christopher Schulze - Self
Sara Smith - Young Woman for America
Alissa Johnson - Concerned Woman for America
Jennifer Gore - Self
Mitchell Hubbard - Self
Kate Brockmeyer - Self


WITNESSES AGAINST:
Casey Pick - The Trevor Project
Anne Lieberman - Self
Lori Lidsey - Self
David Jackson - Greater St. Louis, Inc.
Shannon Cooper - Kansas City Chamber of Commerce
Otto Fajen - Missouri NEA
Rori Picker Neiss - Self
Daniel Neiss - Self
Karen Bogard - Central Reform Congregation
Gabriel Bogard - Self
Patrick Sasser - Self
Everly Sasser - Self
Nick Eingarelli - Slef
Miles Rowe - Self
Debi Jackson - Self
Avery Jackson - Self
Anneliese Schaefer - Self
James Thurow - Self
Daniel Bogard - Central Reform Congregation
Christine Hyman - Self
Corey Hyman - Self
Katherine Sasser - Self
Maggie Olivia Edmondson - Pro Choice Missouri
Mevie Mead - Advocates of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri
Rev. Jennifer Harris Dault - Self
Amy Kuo Hammerman - National Council of Jewish Women St. Louis
Laura Burkhardt - Self