Compare MD HB 156 (2025) and MD HB 47 (2024)

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MD HB 156 (2025)MD HB 47 (2024)
EXPLANATION: CAPITALS INDICATE MATTER ADDED TO EXISTING LAW. [Brackets] indicate matter deleted from existing law. *hb0156* HOUSE BILL 156 F1, D5 5lr0796 HB 47/24 – W&M (PRE–FILEDEXPLANATION: CAPITALS INDICATE MATTER ADDED TO EXISTING LAW. [Brackets] indicate matter deleted from existing law. *hb0047* HOUSE BILL 47 F1, D5 4lr1132 HB 359/23 – W&M (PRE–FILED
Introduced and read first time: January 8, 2025 Assigned to: Ways and Means A BILL ENTITLED AN ACT concerning 1 Education – Interscholastic and Intramural Junior Varsity and Varsity Teams – 2 Designation Based on Sex 3 (Fairness in Girls’ Sports Act) 4 FOR the purpose of requiring certain interscholastic and intramural junior varsity and 5 varsity athletic teams or sports sponsored by certain schools to be expressly 6 designated based on biological sex; prohibiting certain entities from taking certain 7 adverse actions against a school for maintaining separate interscholastic and 8 intramural junior varsity and varsity athletic teams and sports for students of the 9 female sex; providing th…Introduced and read first time: January 10, 2024 Assigned to: Ways and Means A BILL ENTITLED AN ACT concerning 1 Education – Interscholastic and Intramural Junior Varsity and Varsity Teams 2 – Designation Based on Sex 3 (Fairness in Girls’ Sports Act) 4 FOR the purpose of requiring certain interscholastic and intramural junior varsity and 5 varsity athletic teams or sports sponsored by certain schools to be expressly 6 designated based on biological sex; prohibiting certain entities from taking certain 7 adverse actions against a school for maintaining separate interscholastic and 8 intramural junior varsity and varsity athletic teams and sports for students of the 9 female sex; providing t…
II) A STUDENT WHO IS SUBJECT TO RETALIATION OR OTHER 2 ADVERSE ACTION BY A SCHOOL OR AN ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION OR ORGANIZATION 3 AS A RESULT OF REPORTING A VIOLATION OF THIS SECTION TO AN EMPLOYEE OR 4 REPRESENTATIVE OF THE SCHOOL, ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION OR ORGANIZATION, OR 5 ANY STATE OR FEDERAL AGENCY WITH OVERSIGHT OF SCHOOLS IN THE STATE MAY 6 BRING A CIVIL ACTION AGAINST THE SCHOOL OR ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION OR 7 ORGANIZATION. 8 (III) A SCHOOL THAT SUFFERS ANY DIRECT OR INDIRECT HARM 9 FROM A GOVERNMENTAL ENTITY, A LICENSING OR ACCREDITING ORGANIZATION, 10 OR AN ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION OR ORGANIZATION AS A RESULT OF A VIOLATION OF 11 THIS SECTION MAY BRING A CIVIL ACTION AGAINST THE GOVERNMENTAL…II) A STUDENT WHO IS SUBJECT TO RETALIATION OR OTHER 1 ADVERSE ACTION BY A SCHOOL OR AN ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION OR ORGANIZATION 2 AS A RESULT OF REPORTING A VIOLATION OF THIS SECTION TO AN EMPLOYEE OR 3 REPRESENTATIVE OF THE SCHOOL, ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION OR ORGANIZATION, OR 4 ANY STATE OR FEDERAL AGENCY WITH OVERSIGHT OF SCHOOLS IN THE STATE MAY 5 BRING A CIVIL ACTION AGAINST THE SCHOOL OR ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION OR 6 ORGANIZATION. 7 (III) A SCHOOL THAT SUFFERS ANY DIRECT OR INDIRECT HARM 8 FROM A GOVERNMENTAL ENTITY, A LICENSING OR ACCREDITING ORGANIZATION, 9 OR AN ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION OR ORGANIZATION AS A RESULT OF A VIOLATION OF 10 THIS SECTION MAY BRING A CIVIL ACTION AGAINST THE GOVERNMENTAL…