GA-SB1-2025
Georgia · SB 1 · 2025
'Fair and Safe Athletic Opportunities Act'; enact
- Bill key
- GA-SB1-2025
- State
- Georgia
- Session
- 2025
- Introduced
- Last recorded status
- passed
- Citation (Bluebook)
- S.B. 1, 158th Gen. Assemb., Reg. Sess. (Ga. 2025) (enacted), https://www.legis.ga.gov/legislation/69274.
- Short citation
- Ga. S.B. 1.
- Enacted as
- Act 11
- Topics
- Tags
Summary
To amend Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to education, so as to enact the "Riley Gaines Act of 2025"; to provide generally for competitively fair and…
Curator notes
K-post secondary trans fem sports ban; replaces "gender" with "sex" in athletic non-discrimination statute; bathroom ban is for sporting events specifically; Partially written by "Frontline Policy Action"; aka "The Riley Gaines Act of 2025" Uses parts of the Stand with Women Act and Equal Athletic Opportunity Act model bills from IWV
Sponsors
| Name | Party | Office | District | Role |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greg Dolezal | Republican | Senator | SD-027 | Primary sponsor |
| John Kennedy | Republican | Senator | SD-018 | Primary sponsor |
| Steve Gooch | Republican | Senator | SD-051 | Primary sponsor |
| Brandon Beach | Republican | Senator | SD-021 | Primary sponsor |
| Randy Robertson | Republican | Senator | SD-029 | Primary sponsor |
| John Albers | Republican | Senator | SD-056 | Primary sponsor |
| Larry Walker | Republican | Senator | SD-020 | Primary sponsor |
| Ben Watson | Republican | Senator | SD-001 | Primary sponsor |
| Kay Kirkpatrick | Republican | Senator | SD-032 | Primary sponsor |
| Frank Ginn | Republican | Senator | SD-047 | Primary sponsor |
| Bill Cowsert | Republican | Senator | SD-046 | Primary sponsor |
| Russ Goodman | Republican | Senator | SD-008 | Primary sponsor |
| Blake Tillery | Republican | Senator | SD-019 | Primary sponsor |
| Billy Hickman | Republican | Senator | SD-004 | Primary sponsor |
| Drew Echols | Republican | Senator | SD-049 | Primary sponsor |
| Sam Watson | Republican | Senator | SD-011 | Primary sponsor |
| Max Burns | Republican | Senator | SD-023 | Primary sponsor |
| Timothy Bearden | Republican | Senator | SD-030 | Primary sponsor |
| Brian Strickland | Republican | Senator | SD-042 | Primary sponsor |
| Lee Anderson | Republican | Senator | SD-024 | Primary sponsor |
| Clint Dixon | Republican | Senator | SD-045 | Primary sponsor |
| Shawn Still | Republican | Senator | SD-048 | Primary sponsor |
| Bo Hatchett | Republican | Senator | SD-050 | Primary sponsor |
| Marty Harbin | Republican | Senator | SD-016 | Primary sponsor |
| Jason Anavitarte | Republican | Senator | SD-031 | Primary sponsor |
| Chuck Hufstetler | Republican | Senator | SD-052 | Primary sponsor |
| Colton Moore | Republican | Senator | SD-053 | Primary sponsor |
| Mike Hodges | Republican | Senator | SD-003 | Primary sponsor |
| Chuck Payne | Republican | Senator | SD-054 | Primary sponsor |
| Matt Brass | Republican | Senator | SD-006 | Primary sponsor |
1 co-sponsor
| Name | Party | Office | District | Role |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Josh Bonner | Republican | Representative | HD-073 | Co-sponsor |
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Watch the video of the House Education hearing on March 25, 2025
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Watch the video of the House Higher Education hearing on March 26, 2025
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Watch the video of the House Judiciary Non-Civil hearing on March 25, 2025
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Senate Committee on Education and Youth
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Model-bill lineage
Model-bill templates this bill matches
- Save Women's Sports Act Shares provisions
Similar bills
Bill text
- As introduced (41,388 characters) · Open the printed bill (PDF)
- As enrolled or final (45,695 characters) · Open the printed bill (PDF)
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