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Committee adopts substitute to HB 246 tightening limits on use of names or pronouns inconsistent with legal name without parental permission
Summary
Members adopted a substitute to HB 246 that inserts the qualifier “patently inconsistent” in provisions limiting school use of names or pronouns different from a student’s legal name, and the committee gave the bill a favorable report as substituted.
The House Education Policy Committee adopted a substitute to HB 246 that revises language governing when schools may use a name, pronoun or title other than a student’s legal name.
Leader Studhagen and staff explained technical corrections in the substitute: insert the qualifier “patently” before “inconsistent” in several lines and omit paragraphs spanning lines 78 through 85. The change narrows the circumstances in which a school could use a name or pronoun inconsistent with the student’s legal name “without the written permission of a student's parent or guardian.”
The committee adopted the substitute by voice vote, then moved and seconded motions to give the bill a favorable report as substituted; the committee voted in favor by voice vote. The transcript does not record a roll-call tally or additional policy debate in committee.
