SB79 Alabama 2025 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

April Weaver Senator

Republican

Session

2025 Regular Session

Title

Sex-based terms, defined; vital statistics, report sex as male or female at birth required, legislative policy regarding sex and gender identity established

Description

Under existing law, public schools must require multiple occupancy restrooms and changing areas designated for students to be used by individuals based on their biological sex.

This bill would require correctional facilities, domestic violence shelters, juvenile detention centers, public schools, and public institutions of higher education to designate multi-occupancy restrooms, changing rooms, and sleeping quarters for the exclusive use of either females or males and would require these facilities and institutions to take reasonable steps to provide individuals with privacy in these spaces from members of the opposite sex.

This bill would prohibit entry into a restroom or changing room designated for females or males, and in certain settings would prohibit the sharing of sleeping quarters, unless an individual is a member of that sex.

This bill would provide exceptions.

This bill would provide a cause of action against a correctional facility, domestic violence shelter, juvenile detention center, public school, or public institution of higher education by an individual who, while accessing a restroom or changing room SB79 INTRODUCED designated for use by their sex, encounters an individual of the opposite sex in that restroom or changing room.

This bill would also define terms, including "male" and "female.".

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Subjects

Government Administration