Bill > HB1893

This bill establishes that private schools serving students from prekindergarten through twelfth grade can designate multiple-occupancy restrooms or changing areas, which are spaces designed for more than one person at a time where individuals might be undressed in front of others, such as locker rooms or shower rooms, for the exclusive use of either males or females, based on their sex as defined by genetics and physiology at birth. The bill provides exceptions allowing individuals to enter a restroom or changing area designated for the opposite sex for custodial or maintenance purposes, to provide emergency medical assistance, or if a parent or guardian is accompanying their child who is eight years old or younger, with school permission. Furthermore, this bill prevents local governments from enacting rules that would prohibit private schools from establishing these sex-designated facilities, and if a local government violates this provision, they would be responsible for the private school's legal fees and costs.