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Committee approves substitute that would require schools to report student requests to affirm gender change to parents
Summary
The West Virginia Senate committee on education agreed to a committee substitute for Senate Bill 154 that requires school staff to report student requests for accommodations intended to affirm a change in gender identity to an administrator, who must notify the student’s parent or guardian.
The West Virginia Senate committee on education agreed to a committee substitute for Senate Bill 154 on a voice vote and voted to report the bill to the full Senate with a second referral to the Judiciary Committee.
The substitute would require a public school employee who receives a student’s request for an accommodation “that is intended to affirm a change in the student’s gender identity” to report that request to an administrator assigned to the school; the administrator would then be required to notify the student’s parent, custodian or guardian. Committee counsel told members the substitute also creates a private civil cause of action for an impacted parent, custodian or guardian and authorizes the attorney general to bring enforcement actions.
“This would just remove the [gender orientation] part because it…
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