A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning state and local administration.

Plain English Breakdown

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Privacy Protections in Public Institutions

This bill requires public schools, state educational institutions, correctional facilities, and juvenile detention centers to designate separate restrooms and sleeping areas based on the sex assigned at birth.

What This Bill Does

• Requires public schools, state educational institutions, correctional facilities, and juvenile detention centers to have separate restrooms for males and females.
• Allows individuals to use only the restroom that matches their sex as determined by genetics and reproductive biology at birth.
• Prohibits requiring certain people to share sleeping quarters with someone of the opposite sex unless they are family members.
• Establishes civil actions if these rules are not followed.

Who It Names or Affects

• Public schools
• State educational institutions
• Correctional facilities
• Juvenile detention centers

Terms To Know

sex assigned at birth

The sex of a person as determined by their genetics and reproductive biology when they are born.

Limits and Unknowns

• Does not specify what happens if someone's gender identity does not match the sex assigned at birth.
• It is unclear how this bill will be enforced in practice.
• The exact penalties for violating these rules have not been detailed.

Official Summary Text

A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning state and local administration.
Privacy protections in public institutions.

Current Bill Text

A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning state and local administration.

Privacy protections in public institutions.

Requires each public school, state educational institution, correctional facility, juvenile detention facility, and certain governmental entities to designate a multiple occupancy restroom or changing area as follows: (1) For the exclusive use of the male sex. (2) For the exclusive use of the female sex. Provides, with exceptions, that an individual may only use a multiple occupancy restroom or changing area that is designated for the sex that is the individual's sex, as determined at birth in accordance with the individual's genetics and reproductive biology. Establishes a civil action for a violation of these provisions. Prohibits each public school, correctional facility, state educational institution, juvenile detention facility, and certain governmental entities from requiring certain individuals to share sleeping quarters with a member of the opposite sex, as determined at birth in accordance with the individual's genetics and reproductive biology, unless the individual who is a member of the opposite sex is a family member. Establishes a civil action for a violation of these provisions.