Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to override veto of a bill that prohibits transgender girls from playing on female sports teams.

Highlights:

• Defines public school as both schools maintained by a school corporation and charter schools (Sec. 3).

• Defines athletic teams and sports impacted by these provisions as, but not limited to the following (Sec. 1):  

• A team that is organized, sanctioned, or sponsored by a school corporation or public school that competes against another team that is organized, sanctioned, or sponsored by a school corporation, public school, or nonpublic school; and

• An athletic team or sport that is approved or sanctioned by an association for high school participation

• Requires that all specified athletic teams be designated as one of the following (Sec. 4): 

• A male, men's, or boys' team or sport;

• A female, women's, or girls' team or sport; or

• A coeducational team or sport.

• Prohibits an assigned at birth male (transgender female) from participating in any designated female, women’s or girls’ team or sport (Sec. 4). 

• Requires all applicable school corporations, public schools, nonpublic schools, and associations either (Sec. 5):

• Establish and maintain a grievance procedure; or 

• Continuation of an existing grievance or protest procedure if established before July 1, 2022.

• Authorizes any student or their parent to submit a grievance to the school corporation, public or nonpublic school, or association concerning a violation of these regulations (Sec. 5). 

• Authorizes any student to bring civil action against a school if a violation deprives them of an athletic opportunity or causes harm – directly or indirectly (Sec. 6).  

• Prohibits schools from retaliating or taking adverse actions against a student for disclosing a violation or for filing a civil action (Sec. 6).

• Authorizes that if a court finds the student’s claim to be legitimate, the court may award any of the following (Sec. 7):

• Injunctive relief;

• Either the actual and consequential damages from a violation or liquidated damages of no more than $1,000, whichever option is greater;

• Attorney fees and costs declared valid; and

• Any other relief the court deems appropriate.

• Specifies if a school corporation, a public school, a nonpublic school, and an association is acting in good faith in compliance, they are not liable in any civil, administrative, disciplinary, or criminal actions (Sec. 8). 

Full Bill Text

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to override veto of a bill that prohibits transgender girls from playing on female sports teams.

Highlights:

• Defines public school as both schools maintained by a school corporation and charter schools (Sec. 3).

• Defines athletic teams and sports impacted by these provisions as, but not limited to the following (Sec. 1):  

• A team that is organized, sanctioned, or sponsored by a school corporation or public school that competes against another team that is organized, sanctioned, or sponsored by a school corporation, public school, or nonpublic school; and

• An athletic team or sport that is approved or sanctioned by an association for high school participation

• Requires that all specified athletic teams be designated as one of the following (Sec. 4): 

• A male, men's, or boys' team or sport;

• A female, women's, or girls' team or sport; or

• A coeducational team or sport.

• Prohibits an assigned at birth male (transgender female) from participating in any designated female, women’s or girls’ team or sport (Sec. 4). 

• Requires all applicable school corporations, public schools, nonpublic schools, and associations either (Sec. 5):

• Establish and maintain a grievance procedure; or 

• Continuation of an existing grievance or protest procedure if established before July 1, 2022.

• Authorizes any student or their parent to submit a grievance to the school corporation, public or nonpublic school, or association concerning a violation of these regulations (Sec. 5). 

• Authorizes any student to bring civil action against a school if a violation deprives them of an athletic opportunity or causes harm – directly or indirectly (Sec. 6).  

• Prohibits schools from retaliating or taking adverse actions against a student for disclosing a violation or for filing a civil action (Sec. 6).

• Authorizes that if a court finds the student’s claim to be legitimate, the court may award any of the following (Sec. 7):

• Injunctive relief;

• Either the actual and consequential damages from a violation or liquidated damages of no more than $1,000, whichever option is greater;

• Attorney fees and costs declared valid; and

• Any other relief the court deems appropriate.

• Specifies if a school corporation, a public school, a nonpublic school, and an association is acting in good faith in compliance, they are not liable in any civil, administrative, disciplinary, or criminal actions (Sec. 8). 

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that prohibits transgender girls from playing on female sports teams.

Highlights:

• Defines public school as both schools maintained by a school corporation and charter schools (Sec. 3).

• Defines athletic teams and sports impacted by these provisions as, but not limited to the following (Sec. 1):  

• A team that is organized, sanctioned, or sponsored by a school corporation or public school that competes against another team that is organized, sanctioned, or sponsored by a school corporation, public school, or nonpublic school; and

• An athletic team or sport that is approved or sanctioned by an association for high school participation

• Requires that all specified athletic teams be designated as one of the following (Sec. 4): 

• A male, men's, or boys' team or sport;

• A female, women's, or girls' team or sport; or

• A coeducational team or sport.

• Prohibits an assigned at birth male (transgender female) from participating in any designated female, women’s or girls’ team or sport (Sec. 4). 

• Requires all applicable school corporations, public schools, nonpublic schools, and associations either (Sec. 5):

• Establish and maintain a grievance procedure; or 

• Continuation of an existing grievance or protest procedure if established before July 1, 2022.

• Authorizes any student or their parent to submit a grievance to the school corporation, public or nonpublic school, or association concerning a violation of these regulations (Sec. 5). 

• Authorizes any student to bring civil action against a school if a violation deprives them of an athletic opportunity or causes harm – directly or indirectly (Sec. 6).  

• Prohibits schools from retaliating or taking adverse actions against a student for disclosing a violation or for filing a civil action (Sec. 6).

• Authorizes that if a court finds the student’s claim to be legitimate, the court may award any of the following (Sec. 7):

• Injunctive relief;

• Either the actual and consequential damages from a violation or liquidated damages of no more than $1,000, whichever option is greater;

• Attorney fees and costs declared valid; and

• Any other relief the court deems appropriate.

• Specifies if a school corporation, a public school, a nonpublic school, and an association is acting in good faith in compliance, they are not liable in any civil, administrative, disciplinary, or criminal actions (Sec. 8). 

Full Bill Text

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that prohibits transgender girls from playing on female sports teams.

Highlights:

• Defines public school as both schools maintained by a school corporation and charter schools (Sec. 3).

• Defines athletic teams and sports impacted by these provisions as, but not limited to the following (Sec. 1):  

• A team that is organized, sanctioned, or sponsored by a school corporation or public school that competes against another team that is organized, sanctioned, or sponsored by a school corporation, public school, or nonpublic school; and

• An athletic team or sport that is approved or sanctioned by an association for high school participation

• Requires that all specified athletic teams be designated as one of the following (Sec. 4): 

• A male, men's, or boys' team or sport;

• A female, women's, or girls' team or sport; or

• A coeducational team or sport.

• Prohibits an assigned at birth male (transgender female) from participating in any designated female, women’s or girls’ team or sport (Sec. 4). 

• Requires all applicable school corporations, public schools, nonpublic schools, and associations either (Sec. 5):

• Establish and maintain a grievance procedure; or 

• Continuation of an existing grievance or protest procedure if established before July 1, 2022.

• Authorizes any student or their parent to submit a grievance to the school corporation, public or nonpublic school, or association concerning a violation of these regulations (Sec. 5). 

• Authorizes any student to bring civil action against a school if a violation deprives them of an athletic opportunity or causes harm – directly or indirectly (Sec. 6).  

• Prohibits schools from retaliating or taking adverse actions against a student for disclosing a violation or for filing a civil action (Sec. 6).

• Authorizes that if a court finds the student’s claim to be legitimate, the court may award any of the following (Sec. 7):

• Injunctive relief;

• Either the actual and consequential damages from a violation or liquidated damages of no more than $1,000, whichever option is greater;

• Attorney fees and costs declared valid; and

• Any other relief the court deems appropriate.

• Specifies if a school corporation, a public school, a nonpublic school, and an association is acting in good faith in compliance, they are not liable in any civil, administrative, disciplinary, or criminal actions (Sec. 8). 

Full Bill Text