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NC H791

Bill

Status

Introduced

4/3/2025

Primary Sponsor

Jennifer Balkcom

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Origin

House of Representatives

2025-2026 Session

AI Summary

  • Establishes statutory definitions for "biological sex," "male," "female," "man," "woman," "boy," "girl," "mother," and "father" based on reproductive anatomy present at birth, applying these definitions throughout North Carolina General Statutes

  • Requires restrooms, changing facilities, and sleeping quarters in covered facilities (prisons, juvenile detention centers, domestic violence centers, rape crisis centers, and public schools receiving state funds) to be used by only one biological sex at a time

  • Creates a private cause of action allowing individuals to sue covered facilities that permit or fail to prevent persons of the opposite biological sex from using single-sex restrooms, changing facilities, or sleeping quarters, with potential remedies including actual damages, punitive damages, and attorney's fees

  • Eliminates the ability to change the sex designation on North Carolina birth certificates based on sex reassignment surgery, limiting new birth certificates to parentage-related changes only

  • Requires driver's licenses to display sex as reflected on the applicant's birth certificate rather than self-reported sex, effective upon enactment

Legislative Description

Women's Safety and Protection Act

Public

Last Action

Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House

4/8/2025

Committee Referrals

Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House4/8/2025

Full Bill Text

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