Prohibiting the Usurpation of Bathroom Laws through Independent Choice School Act (PUBLIC School Act) of 2016

Prohibiting the Usurpation of Bathroom Laws through Independent Choice School Act (PUBLIC School Act) of 2016

This bill declares that it shall not be unlawful under federal law for a state or local government to enact or enforce a policy regarding the use of sex-segregated bathrooms or locker rooms of educational institutions on the basis of gender identity. The bill prohibits the reduction or denial of federal financial assistance on the basis that a state or local government enacts or enforces such a policy.

[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5275 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5275

 To protect the authority of States and local governments to enact and 
enforce policies regarding the use of sex-segregated bathrooms and sex-
  segregated locker rooms of educational institutions on the basis of 
                            gender identity.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 18, 2016

Mr. Messer (for himself, Mr. Rokita, Mr. Fleischmann, Mr. Meadows, Mr. 
Rogers of Alabama, Mr. Collins of Georgia, Mr. Massie, Mrs. Lummis, Mr. 
  Rouzer, Mr. Jordan, and Mr. Walker) introduced the following bill; 
   which was referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To protect the authority of States and local governments to enact and 
enforce policies regarding the use of sex-segregated bathrooms and sex-
  segregated locker rooms of educational institutions on the basis of 
                            gender identity.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Prohibiting the Usurpation of 
Bathroom Laws through Independent Choice School Act (PUBLIC School Act) 
of 2016''.

SEC. 2. STATE AND LOCAL AUTHORITY REGARDING SEX-SEGREGATED BATHROOMS 
              AND SEX-SEGREGATED LOCKER ROOMS OF EDUCATIONAL 
              INSTITUTIONS.

    It shall not be unlawful under any Federal law (including title IX 
of the Education Amendments of 1972) for a State, or local government 
of a State, to enact or enforce a policy regarding the use of sex-
segregated bathrooms, or sex-segregated locker rooms, of educational 
institutions on the basis of gender identity. Federal financial 
assistance may not be reduced or denied on the basis that a State, or 
local government of a State, enacts or enforces a policy regarding the 
use of sex-segregated bathrooms, or sex-segregated locker rooms, of an 
educational institution on the basis of gender identity.

SEC. 3. DEFINITION.

    For purposes of this Act, the term ``gender identity'' shall have 
the meaning given it in section 249 of title 18 of the United States 
Code.
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