{"bill":{"bill_key":"AL-HB244-2025","title":"Public K-12 education, discussions of gender identity prohibited in grades preK-12, employees prohibited from displaying flags or insignia relating to sexual orientation or gender identity, employees prohibited from referring to student by pronouns inconsistent with student's biological sex","side":"anti","state":"AL","year":2025,"status_cat":"failed","ls_status":"engrossed","summary":"Public K-12 education, discussions of gender identity prohibited in grades preK-12, employees prohibited from displaying flags or insignia relating to sexual orientation or gender…","notes":"Extends existing K-5 Don't Say Gay or Trans ban to K12; introduced with pronoun ban/misgendering, but that was amended away","types_str":"Don't Say Gay: K12|Don't Say Trans: K12|Misgendering: Pronoun Ban|Censorship: Pride Flag Ban: K12|Misgendering: Forced","sponsor_mix":"R","final_margin_pct":91.7,"url":"https://legiscan.com/AL/bill/HB244/2025","url_kind":"legiscan","source":"legiscan","special":0,"bluebook":{"cite":"H.B. 244, 2025 Leg., Reg. Sess. (Ala. 2025).","short":"Ala. H.B. 244."}},"same_key":[],"sponsors":[{"name":"Mack Butler","party":"R","state":"AL","district":"HD-028","is_primary":true,"href":"/people/ls-15746"}],"citations":["AL:16-40A-5"],"text":{"available":true,"credit":"Bill data and text from LegiScan (legiscan.com), licensed CC BY 4.0 and used in modified form. LegiScan does not endorse the Trans Data Initiative.","versions":[{"role":"intro","label":"As introduced","chars":3121,"pdf_href":"/bills/AL-HB244-2025/pdf/0/intro"}]},"family":{"cluster":"AL-HB244-2025","n_bills":3,"n_states":1},"diffusion":{"matches":[{"other":"AL-HB23-2026","other_title":"Public preK-12 education; discussions of gender identity prohibited, employees prohibited from displaying flags or insignia relating to sexual orientation or gender identity and from referring to students by pronouns inconsistent with student's biological sex","other_state":"AL","other_year":2026,"cross_state":false},{"other":"AL-SB331-2026","other_title":"Public preK-12 education; discussions of gender identity prohibited, employees prohibited from displaying flags or insignia relating to sexual orientation or gender identity and from referring to students by pronouns inconsistent with student's biological sex","other_state":"AL","other_year":2026,"cross_state":false}]}}