MS-HB1176-2019

Mississippi · HB 1176 · 2019

Teachers; provide protection from suspension or termination for refusing to refer to students preferred gender identity if different from biological assignment at birth.

Bill key

MS-HB1176-2019

State

Mississippi

Session

2019

Introduced

January 24, 2019

Last recorded status

failed

Link

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Citation (Bluebook)

H.B. 1176, 2019 Leg., Reg. Sess. (Miss. 2019), http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2019/pdf/history/HB/HB1176.xml.

Short citation

Miss. H.B. 1176.

Topics

• Schools & curriculum
• Nondiscrimination protections
• Religious exemptions
• Marriage, family & custody

Tags

• Discrimination In Education
• Religious Exemptions: Academic
• Religious Exemptions: Trans DNE
• Religious Exemptions: Marriage
• Religious Exemptions: PFCGDA

Summary

School staff shall not be disciplined or dismissed for misgendering students by referring to them by their assigned at birth gender

Curator notes

Refers to "immutable biological sex"

Sponsors

1 sponsor

Name	Party	Office	District	Role
Tom Weathersby	Republican	Representative	HD-062	Primary sponsor

Model-bill lineage

Model-bill templates this bill matches

• Protecting Freedom of Conscience (MS HB1523) Near-verbatim
• First Amendment Defense Act Derived
• Marriage Tolerance Act (First Amendment Defense Act) Shares provisions

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Bill text

• As introduced (22,669 characters)

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