HF 2202 (LSB 5695YH (3) 88)

HOUSE FILE 2202

BY  GASSMAN, WHEELER, JACOBSEN, BAXTER, KERR, JENEARY, GERHOLD, OSMUNDSON, SALMON, FISHER, SHIPLEY, HOLT, and GUSTAFSON

A BILL FOR

An Act requiring high school students to participate in extracurricular interscholastic athletic practices, contests, or competitions based on biological sex as determined at birth.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  NEW SECTION.  280.13D  Participation in extracurricular interscholastic athletic practices, contests, or competitions —— sex at birth.
   Notwithstanding section 216.9, a public or nonpublic high school student shall only participate in an extracurricular interscholastic athletic practice, contest, or competition that is designated for the student’s biological sex as determined at birth.
EXPLANATION
The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly.
   This bill provides that, notwithstanding a specified provision of state law to the contrary, a public or nonpublic high school student shall only participate in an extracurricular interscholastic athletic practice, contest, or competition that is designated for the student’s biological sex as determined at birth.