PREFILED    JAN 02 2020

REFERENCE TITLE: school employees; students; gender pronouns

State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-fourth Legislature Second Regular Session 2020

HB 2082

Introduced by Representative Fillmore

 

AN ACT

 

amending Title 15, chapter 5, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 15-505; relating to school employees.

 

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

 

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1.  Title 15, chapter 5, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 15-505, to read:

START_STATUTE15-505.  School employees and officers; student sex or gender pronouns; prohibitions

A public school may not:

1.  Require a school superintendent, principal or teacher or another officer or employee of a public school to use a sex or gender pronoun in reference to a student other than the sex or gender pronoun that corresponds to the sex listed on that student's birth certificate.

2.  Penalize a school superintendent, principal or teacher or another officer or employee of a public school for refusing to use a sex or gender pronoun in reference to a student other than the sex or gender pronoun that corresponds to the sex listed on that student's birth certificate. END_STATUTE