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Committee advances HB 269 after extensive public comment on sex-designated campus housing
Summary
The committee approved substitute HB 269 on a 5–1 vote. The substitute requires occupants of sex-designated dorms to correspond to biological sex at birth and directs universities to provide non–sex-designated housing options; public testimony included many students and advocacy groups both for and against the bill.
The committee voted 5–1 to send substitute HB 269, Privacy Protections in Sex-Designated Areas, to the full Senate after a lengthy public-comment period in which students, parents, university-affiliated residents and civil-rights and advocacy groups spoke for and against the measure.
Senator Brammer presented the bill and described the substitute as doing two principal things: first, in sex-designated dormitories or dwellings the bill requires that occupants "must correspond to their birth biological sex" (as stated by the sponsor in committee); second, it requires institutions of higher education to provide non–sex-designated housing options where biological sex is not a condition for residency. The sponsor said the substitute…
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