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| | 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026
HB2823 Introduced 2/6/2025, by Rep. Chris Miller SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
| | | Creates the Gender in Sports Act. Provides that a student-athlete may participate in an intercollegiate athletics program at a postsecondary educational institution that allows only a single gender to participate in that program only if the gender of the student-athlete is the same gender as the single gender designation for that program. |
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| | A BILL FOR |
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| | HB2823 | | LRB104 08283 LNS 18334 b |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning education.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, |
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Gender |
| 5 | | in Sports Act.
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| 6 | | Section 5. Definitions. As used in this Act: |
| 7 | | "Gender of the student-athlete" means the gender the |
| 8 | | student-athlete was assigned at birth. |
| 9 | | "Intercollegiate athletics program" has the meaning given |
| 10 | | to that term in the Student-Athlete Endorsement Rights Act. |
| 11 | | "Postsecondary educational institution" has the meaning |
| 12 | | given to that term in the Student-Athlete Endorsement Rights |
| 13 | | Act.
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| 14 | | Section 10. Gender-designated sports participation. A |
| 15 | | student-athlete may participate in an intercollegiate |
| 16 | | athletics program at a postsecondary educational institution |
| 17 | | that allows only a single gender to participate in that |
| 18 | | program only if the gender of the student-athlete is the same |
| 19 | | gender as the single gender designation for that program. |