Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Education Committee on June 27, 2025. The 2025 session has ended.
2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2037
Requires each athletic association, conference or organization with authority over intercollegiate sports, post-secondary institution of education and school district to designate athletic competitions and extracurricular sports according to biological sex.
What it does
The synopsis the Legislative Assembly published with the bill.
Digest: The Act tells certain entities to designate sports by sex. The Act forbids males from playing in female sports. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.35). Requires each athletic association, conference or organization with authority over intercollegiate sports, post-secondary institution of education and school district to designate athletic competitions and extracurricular sports according to biological sex. Prohibits biological males from participating in athletic competitions or extracurricular sports designated for biological females. Requires academic entities to designate bathrooms and locker rooms for exclusive use by either persons of the male biological sex or persons of the female biological sex. Except as provided under written policies for coaches, trainers and other authorized persons, prohibits persons of the male biological sex from entering or using bathrooms or locker rooms designated for use by, or in use by, persons of the female biological sex and prohibits persons of the female biological sex from entering or using bathrooms or locker rooms designated for use by, or in use by, persons of the male biological sex. Provides causes of action for students, post-secondary institutions of education and school districts.
Sponsors
Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.
In the House of Representatives
Sponsor
Emily McIntire, Bobby Levy, Court Boice, Mark Owens, E. Werner Reschke, Ed Diehl, Darin Harbick, Virgle Osborne, Gregory Smith
Chief co-sponsors
4 co-sponsors
Dwayne Yunker, Jeffrey Helfrich, Cyrus Javadi, Shelly Boshart Davis
In the Senate
1 co-sponsor
Its course
January 13 to June 27, 2025, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.
Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.
Every action4 actions on 4 days
In the House of RepresentativesJan 13 to Jun 27 · stopped165 days
Waiting for a committeeJan 13 to Jan 174 days
EducationJan 17 to Jun 27 · stopped161 days
Votes
Yeas to nays, as the Legislative Assembly recorded them. Committee votes are set in.
Education22–32
Jun 5 · 5 present
Text
Each version as the Legislative Assembly printed it.
l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.
What happened
In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the Legislative Assembly published it is below.
In the House of Representatives Jan 13 – Jun 27
- Jan 13Introduced
- Jan 17Sent to Education
- Jun 27Died when the session ended