Text of TN SB 771 (2017)
As introduced, requires students in public schools and public institutions of higher education to use restrooms and locker rooms that are assigned to persons of the same sex as that shown on the students' birth certificates. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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SENATE BILL 771
By Beavers
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49,
relative to student restrooms and locker rooms.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:
SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, Chapter 2, Part 1, is amended by
adding the following language as a new section:
Public schools shall require that a student use student restroom and locker room
facilities that are assigned for use by persons of the same sex as the sex indicated on
the student's original birth certificate.
SECTION 2. Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 1, is amended by
adding the following language as a new section:
Public institutions of higher education shall require that a student use the
restroom and locker room facilities that are assigned for use by persons of the same sex
as the sex indicated on the student's original birth certificate.
SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring
it.