Bill > HB798

This bill, known as the Privacy Protection Act, enacts new provisions and amends existing laws to define and protect biological sex in various public and educational settings. Key provisions include requiring government entities, schools, and institutions of higher education to designate multi-occupancy restrooms, changing rooms, and overnight accommodations for the exclusive use of either males or females, prohibiting individuals of the opposite sex from using these facilities except in specific circumstances like assisting young children or individuals with disabilities, and establishing private causes of action for individuals who encounter someone of the opposite sex in a designated facility. The bill also addresses the use of names and pronouns in schools and higher education, stating that employees cannot be disciplined for declining to identify their pronouns or for addressing individuals by their legal names and pronouns consistent with their sex, and students cannot be disciplined for declining to identify their pronouns or for addressing others by their legal names and pronouns consistent with their sex. Furthermore, it mandates that birth certificates include the child's sex and allows for amendments to sex designations on birth, death, and fetal death records only by court order based on clear and convincing evidence that the original record was inaccurate. The act also introduces regulations for public places and places of employment regarding multi-occupancy facilities and prohibits government employees from facing adverse employment actions for declining to identify their pronouns or for addressing individuals by their legal names and pronouns consistent with their sex.