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SD HB1177 (2025)
Require an employee of a school district, the Board of Regents, or the South Dakota Board of Technical Education to receive permission of a parent or guardian of an unemancipated minor student before addressing the student with a name other than the student's legal name and to prohibit the compulsory use of gendered language inconsistent with sex.
Anti-LGBTQ+
Summary
Require an employee of a school district, the Board of Regents, or the South Dakota Board of Technical Education to receive permission of a parent or guardian of an unemancipated…
- Jurisdiction
- South Dakota
- Session
- 2025 Regular Session
- Stage reported
- Introduced Session adjourned
- First recorded action
- Latest action
- : Education Reconsidered, Passed, YEAS 8, NAYS 7.
- Record retrieved
Bill types
As labelled in the project's tracker.
Pronoun BanForced Outing By SchoolsForced Misgendering
Links
- As introduced (PDF, hosted here)
- LegiScan record(opens another site)
- Official legislature page(opens another site)
- Introduced text (Jan 30, 2025) at mylrc.sdlegislature.gov(opens another site)PDF, external
- Bill page on this site
Recorded actions
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| House | First Reading House H.J. 154 | |
| House | Referred to House Education H.J. 171 | |
| House | Scheduled for hearing | |
| House | Scheduled for hearing | |
| House | Education Motion to amend, Passed Amendment 1177A | |
| House | Education Deferred to the 41st legislative day, Passed, YEAS 9, NAYS 5. | |
| House | Education Reconsidered, Passed, YEAS 8, NAYS 7. |
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