Text of MO SB 87 (2023)

FIRST REGULAR SESSION SENATE BILL NO. 87 102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY INTRODUCED BY SENATOR BROWN (26). 0947S.01I KRISTINA MARTIN, Secretary AN ACT To amend chapter 167, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to elementary and secondary school aged students participating in athletics. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows: Section A. Chapter 167, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto 1 one new section, to be known as section 167.780, to read as 2 follows: 3 167.780. 1. This act shall be known and may be cited 1 as the "Save Women's Sports Act". The provisions of this 2 section shall apply to sports or athletic competitions, 3 tournaments, and games intended for individuals under the 4 age of nineteen. 5 2. As used in this section, "intramural" shall mean 6 teams, competitions, tournaments, or games that a sponsor, 7 organizing entity, or facilitator designates is open to all 8 genders. 9 3. Every sponsor, organizing entity for sports for 10 students in kindergarten through grade twelve, or 11 facilitator of children or youth sports competitions shall 12 designate each team, competition, tournament, and game as 13 designated for exclusively males, exclusively females, or 14 intramural. 15 4. No team, competition, tournament, or game 16 designated exclusively for females, women, or girls shall be 17 open to participation by males, men, or boys. 18 SB 87 2 5. No team, competition, tournament, or game 19 designated exclusively for males, men, or boys shall be open 20 to participation by females, women, or girls. 21 6. The gender of participants in children or youth 22 sports or athletic teams, competitions, tournaments, or 23 games shall be determined by the gender as assigned to the 24 participant at birth, unless the gender as assigned at birth 25 was later changed due to the treatment of a participant with 26 a disorder of sexual differentiation, including disorders of 27 chromosomal sex, disorders of phenotypic sex, or disorders 28 of gonadal sex. 29 7. Any participant in children or youth sports or an 30 athletic team, competition, tournament, or game who is 31 disadvantaged in any way by a violation of this section may 32 recover damages and equitable relief as a result of 33 another's violation of this section. 34 8. No public school, private middle school, or private 35 high school that has biological males as assigned at birth 36 playing women's sports shall be eligible for any moneys 37 appropriated by the general assembly. 38 