SB 582

This bill requires a school board to designate each pupil restroom and changing

room (together, changing room) located in a public school building and accessible by

multiple pupils as for the exclusive use of pupils of only one sex. The bill defines "sex"

as the physical condition of being male or female, as determined by an individual's

reproductive organs and as designated on that individual's birth certificate. With

certain exceptions, the bill prohibits a member of the female sex from using a

changing room that has been designated as a male changing room and prohibits a

member of the male sex from using a changing room that has been designated as a

female changing room. In addition, the bill permits a school board to temporarily

redesignate a pupil restroom or changing room for special events.

The bill requires a school board to provide reasonable accommodations to a

pupil to use a single-occupancy changing room or the regulated use of a faculty

changing room if the parent or guardian of the pupil submits a written request to

receive the accommodations. The bill requires the school to treat a written request

for accommodations as a confidential pupil record.

The bill also permits a school board to provide a gender-neutral restroom in a

school for use by pupils. The bill defines a gender-neutral restroom as a restroom

that satisfies all of the following requirements: 1) the restroom has two or more

stalls; 2) each stall in the restroom has a floor-to-ceiling door with a lock or latch so

that the door may be locked or latched from the inside; 3) each stall in the restroom

is separated from any other stall by either a wall or floor-to-ceiling partitions; 4)

there are no spaces between the doors, walls, and partitions used in the construction

of each stall so that a person standing outside a stall cannot see inside the stall and

a person inside a stall cannot see into any other stall; 5) if the restroom has a urinal,

the urinal is located in a stall that meets all the other requirements for a stall.

The bill permits the pupil's parent or guardian to file a written complaint

regarding a violation of the requirements in the bill, and requires the school board

to investigate and attempt to resolve the complaint.