SB810 - Relating to protection for a public school employee's use of terms consistent with biological sex.

      By: Hughes, et al.  S.B. No. 810          (In the Senate - Filed January 16, 2025; February 7, 2025,   read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;   March 17, 2025, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 10,   Nays 0; March 17, 2025, sent to printer.) Click here to see the committee vote     A BILL TO BE ENTITLED   AN ACT     relating to protection for a public school employee's use of terms   consistent with biological sex.          BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:          SECTION 1.  Subchapter Z, Chapter 22, Education Code, is   amended by adding Section 22.905 to read as follows:           Sec.   22.905.     PROTECTION FOR USE OF TERMS CONSISTENT WITH   BIOLOGICAL SEX. A school district or open-enrollment charter   school may not discipline, retaliate against, or otherwise   discriminate against a district or school employee who addresses a   student or another district or school employee in terms consistent   with the biological sex of the student or employee.          SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives   a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as   provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this   Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this   Act takes effect September 1, 2025.     * * * * *