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TX SB8
Bill
Status
Passed
9/22/2025
Primary Sponsor
Mayes Middleton
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AI Summary
- Requires Texas state agencies and political subdivisions to designate all multi-occupancy restrooms, locker rooms, changing rooms, and shower rooms for use by one biological sex only, with sex defined based on reproductive system
- Mandates that inmates in Texas correctional facilities be housed according to their biological sex
- Restricts family violence shelters designed for female victims to serving only biological females and their children aged 17 or younger
- Imposes civil penalties of $25,000 for a first violation and $125,000 for subsequent violations, with each day of continuing violation counted separately
- Creates a private right of action allowing Texas residents to file complaints with the Attorney General after providing written notice and a 3-business-day cure period to the violating entity
Legislative Description
Relating to the designation and use of certain spaces and facilities according to sex; authorizing a civil penalty and a private civil right of action.
Education
Last Action
Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . December 4, 2025
9/22/2025
Committee Referrals
State Affairs8/20/2025
State Affairs8/15/2025
Full Bill Text
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