ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Fifty-seventh Legislature

First Regular Session

 

HB 2062: sex-based terms; laws; rules; regulations

Sponsor: Representative Fink, LD 27

Committee on Government

Overview

Conforms the definitions of certain sex-based terms across Arizona's statutes and any administrative rules, regulations and public policies adopted by the state or its political subdivisions. Prescribes requirements for certain sex-based policies and data collections.

History

The rules and definitions set forth in the Arizona Revised Statutes' rules of statutory construction must be observed in the construction of laws in the state unless such construction would be inconsistent with the manifest intent of the Legislature (A.R.S. § 1-211).

Provisions

1.   Requires any policy, rule, program or law prohibiting sex discrimination to also prohibit the unfair treatment of a similarly situated member of the opposite sex. (Sec. 1)

2.   Allows Arizona and its political subdivisions to provide for separate, single-sex environments. (Sec. 1)

3.   Specifies that single-sex environments include athletics, living facilities, locker rooms, bathrooms, domestic violence shelters and sexual assault crisis centers. (Sec. 1)

4.   Instructs this state and its political subdivisions, including public schools and public school districts, that collect vital sex related statistics, to identify each natural person as either male or female. (Sec. 1)

5.   Specifies that this measure does not require the collection of data regarding sex unless otherwise required by law or prevent the collection of additional data points other than biological sex. (Sec. 1)

6.   ☐ Prop 105 (45 votes) ☐ Prop 108 (40 votes) ☐ Emergency (40 votes) ☐ Fiscal NoteDefines, for the purposes of the Arizona Revised Statutes and any administrative rules, regulations and public policies adopted by the state or its political subdivisions, boy, equal, father, female, girl, male, man, mother and sex. (Sec. 1).

7.   Contains a legislative purpose statement. (Sec. 2)

8.   Contains a severability clause. (Sec. 3)

9.   Entitles this act as the Arizona Sex-based Terms Act. (Sec. 4)

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