Text of AL HB 244 (2025)
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
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HB244 INTRODUCED
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HB244
LS4RYYW-1
By Representatives Butler, Stadthagen, Yarbrough, Robertson,
Harrison, Whorton, Rehm, Wood (D), DuBose, Shaver, Standridge,
Shedd, Gidley, Lamb, Shaw, Paschal, Lipscomb, Kiel
RFD: Education Policy
First Read: 11-Feb-25
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LS4RYYW-1 02/10/2025 GP (L)lg 2025-574
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SYNOPSIS:
Under existing law, classroom instruction or
discussions regarding gender identity or sexual
orientation may not be provided to public school
students in kindergarten through fifth grade in a
manner that is not age or developmentally appropriate
or is not in accordance with state standards.
This bill would prohibit classroom instruction
or discussions related to gender identity or sexual
orientation from being provided to public school
students in prekindergarten through twelfth grade.
This bill would prohibit public preK-12 teachers
and education employees from displaying a flag or
insignia relating to sexual orientation or gender
identity on school property.
This bill would also prohibit public preK-12
teachers and education employees from referring to a
student by pronouns inconsistent with the student's
biological sex at birth.
A BILL
TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
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Relating to education; to amend Section 16-40A-5, Code
of Alabama 1975; to prohibit classroom instruction in public
school prekindergarten through the twelfth grade related to
gender identity or sexual orientation; to prohibit education
employees from displaying certain flags and insignia in public
preK-12 schools; and to prohibit education employees from
referring to a student by pronouns inconsistent with the
student's biological sex.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:
Section 1. Section 16-40A-5, Code of Alabama 1975, is
amended to read as follows:
"§16-40A-5
(a) An individual or group of individuals providing
classroom instruction to students in kindergarten
prekindergarten through the fifthtwelfth grade at a public
K-12 preK-12 school shall not engage in classroom discussion
or provide classroom instruction regarding sexual orientation
or gender identity in a manner that is not age appropriate or
developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with
state standards.
(b) No teacher, or other public preK-12 employee, may
display a flag or other insignia relating to or representing
sexual orientation or gender identity in a classroom or on the
property of a public preK-12 school.
(c) No teacher, or other public preK-12 employee, may
intentionally address a student by a pronoun or title that is
inconsistent with the student's biological sex at birth.
(b)(d) The State Board of Education shall adopt rules
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for the implementation and enforcement of this section."
Section 2. This act shall become effective on July 1,
2025.
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