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🪦SB211: Bill Hearings & Public Record
SB211 Retained from last year, this bill extends discrimination in sports to higher education. Though HB1205 in 2024 largely shut down trans participation in high school sports, efforts continue. (Senate Education Policy Committee)
Official Title: relative to biological sex in student athletics.
Bill Sponsors: (Prime) Avard (R), Lang (R), Innis (R), Ruth Ward (R), Abbas (R), McGough (R), Victoria Sullivan (R), Rochefort (R), Gannon (R), Pearl (R), McConkey (R), Kofalt (R), Notter (R), Pauer (R), Sirois (R)
SB430: Bill Hearings & Public Record
SB430- Forced Outing in Schools
Official Title: relative to mandatory disclosure by school district employees to parents and legal guardians.
Bill Sponsors:(Prime) Lang (R), Avard (R), Birdsell (R), McGough (R), Ruth Ward (R), Innis (R), Gray (R), Gannon (R), Abbas (R), Victoria Sullivan (R), Keith Murphy (R), Carson (R), Pearl (R), Rochefort (R), Berry (R), Moffett (R)
Bill Hearings & Public Record (this record is a work-in-progress)
Summary: This bill expands upon the "forced outing" or mandatory disclosure of any information about public school students to their parents. Last year's HB10, the "parental bill of rights," created a situation where teachers would be forced to out LGBTQIA students. This bill strengthens that dynamic and inflicts strict penalties against educators who don’t comply. It does provide a very weak provision if educators feel the student is at risk - but risk is incredibly difficult to gauge on matters of identity and home life. This bill would jeopardize the safety of LGBTQIA+ students who do not live in an affirming home, and remove the likelihood that students would be able to build foundational trust with safe adults in their lives in all areas by turning educators into a tool of surveillance. The original bill text can be read by clicking the bill number. The committee hearings & public record of the bill can be watched and reviews at the “Bill Hearings & Public Record” linked above.
SB459: Bill Hearings & Public Record
We define SB459 as an anti-trans locker room & sports ban and prison segregation bill. SB 459 is a multi-faceted bill that limits access for trans folks in locker restrooms, in sports settings, and designates that “biological sex” must be the determining factor in prison placement. This bill sponsor defines “biological sex” like many of the other proposed bathroom and locker room bans this legislative season on a binary, despite the fast number of variations to biological sex that exist. This bill is another example of the state legislature attempting to police the movements of trans people in New Hampshire, despite two separate Governors vetoing three similar bills already. This bill works in opposition to three of our policy platform pillars: affirming environments, economic safety and right to privacy.
SB431: Bill Hearings & Public Record
SB431 - School Censorship
Official Title: relative to violations of the prohibition on teaching discrimination.
Bill Sponsors: (Prime) Lang (R), Avard (R), McGough (R), Innis (R), Gannon (R), Abbas (R), Victoria Sullivan (R), Keith Murphy (R), McConkey (R), Pearl (R), Rochefort (R), Moffett (R), Lynn (R), Alexander (R)
Summary: This bill adds intent as a qualifier for the law pertaining to the prohibitions on teaching public school students about discrimination. The original bill text can be read by clicking the bill number. The committee hearings & public record of the bill can be watched and reviews at the “Bill Hearings & Public Record” linked above.
🪦SB33: Bill Hearings & Public Record
SB33Retained from last year, this bill enables small groups of citizens to cause "harmful" materials to be removed from public schools. (Senate Education Policy Committee)
Official Title: relative to the regulation of public school materials.