TX-HB1601-2025
Texas · HB 1601 · 2025
Relating to the prohibition, prevention, and remedying of certain discrimination.
- Bill key
- TX-HB1601-2025
- State
- Texas
- Session
- 2025
- Introduced
- Last recorded status
- introduced
- Citation (Bluebook)
- H.B. 1601, 89th Leg., Reg. Sess. (Tex. 2025), https://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=89R&Bill=HB1601.
- Short citation
- Tex. H.B. 1601.
- Topics
- Tags
Summary
Relating to the prohibition, prevention, and remedying of certain discrimination.
Curator notes
SOGIE nondiscrimation omnibus bill; also changes language of "husband" and "wife" to "spouse" in various places in statute and revises other references to marriage to be not strictly heteronormative; also removes licensure penalty for providing gender affirming medical care; removes "sexual orientation" or "because a person is a transvestite" exceptions to disability protections;
Sponsors
| Name | Party | Office | District | Role |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jon Rosenthal | Democratic | Representative | HD-135 | Primary sponsor |
| Jessica Gonzalez | Democratic | Representative | HD-104 | Primary sponsor |
| Lauren Ashley Simmons | Democratic | Representative | HD-146 | Primary sponsor |
| Venton Jones | Democratic | Representative | HD-100 | Primary sponsor |
Bill text
- As introduced (76,769 characters)
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