2025 bills / H.B. 269
H.B. 269 Privacy Protections in Sex-designated Areas (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee
- House vote
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
The bill requires public colleges and universities to assign students to sex-designated campus housing according to their sex, and directs the Utah Board of Higher Education to issue guidance on student housing those schools own or control. It also narrows a sex-based distinction exception in school activity rules and removes a medical treatment documentation option for proving access to sex-designated privacy spaces.
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Official description
- defines terms
- requires the Utah Board of Higher Education to provide guidance regarding student housing that degree-granting institutions own or control
- provides a definitional change for nonprofit exceptions to and broadens the scope of a nonprofit educational institution exception to the Utah Fair Housing Act
- narrows an exception for a prohibition on sex-based distinctions to apply only to a determination of the School Activity Eligibility Commission and a student's participation in a certain gender-designated interscholastic activity
- removes an ambiguous medical treatment documentation provision from certain lists of evidence supporting an individual's access to certain sex-designated privacy spaces
- amends provisions regarding government entity facility compliance to specify which government entity bears certain duties
- requires degree-granting institutions to comply with sex designations in assigning students to dwelling units within the institution's sex-designated student housing
- makes technical and conforming changes
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What members get
- An alert the day H.B. 269 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When H.B. 269 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
- Its hearings in your own calendar
- Your own scorecard: pick the side you favor and see how every legislator voted
Every vote
- 14 yes, 0 no, 2 absentHouse Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee: vote to change the bill · Jan 23, 2025Who voted how
- 13 yes, 2 no, 1 absentHouse Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee: vote to approve it · Jan 23, 2025Who voted how
- 59 yes, 13 no, 3 absentFinal House vote · Jan 28, 2025Who voted how
- 5 yes, 1 no, 1 absentSenate Education Committee: vote to approve it · Jan 30, 2025Who voted how
- 22 yes, 7 noFirst of two Senate votes · Feb 5, 2025Who voted how
- 20 yes, 7 no, 2 absentFinal Senate vote · Feb 6, 2025Who voted how
- 59 yes, 14 no, 2 absentHouse vote to accept the other chamber's changes · Feb 10, 2025Who voted how
Hearings and debates
- Jan 23, 2025 House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee▶ Watch
- Jan 24, 2025 House floor debate▶ Watch
- Jan 28, 2025 House floor debate▶ Watch
- Jan 30, 2025 Senate Education Committee▶ Watch
- Feb 5, 2025 Senate floor debate▶ Watch
- Feb 6, 2025 Senate floor debate▶ Watch
- Feb 10, 2025 House floor debate▶ Watch