Bill Text: MI HB4546 | 2023-2024 | 102nd Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Recreation: athletics and sports; publicly funded individual sports programs that provide separate programs for males and females; require athletes to be scored according to their biological sex. Creates new act.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 29-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-05-16 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 05/11/2023 [HB4546 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2023-HB4546-Introduced.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HOUSE BILL NO. 4546

May 11, 2023, Introduced by Reps. Jaime Greene, St. Germaine, Schmaltz, Wendzel, Aragona, Meerman, Alexander, Bierlein, DeBoyer, Maddock, Johnsen, Markkanen, Cavitt, Hoadley, Outman, Rigas, Fox, Schriver, Wozniak, Bezotte, Martin, Neyer, Kunse, Friske, DeBoer, Carra, Schuette, Smit and Beeler and referred to the Committee on Government Operations.

A bill to require awards, rankings, and records of outcomes in separate female and male sporting events to be categorized consistent with each competitor's biological sex.

the people of the state of michigan enact:

Sec. 1. This act may be cited as the "female athletics integrity of records (FAIR) act".

Sec. 2. As used in this act:

(a) "Biological sex" means the state of being female or the state of being male, as an innate, objective biological condition determined at the conception of the human being.

(b) "Sporting event" means an athletic event to which all of the following apply:

(i) Individuals compete individually.

(ii) There are separate competitions for females and males.

(iii) The event is in whole or in part publicly funded.

Sec. 3. Though an individual in a sporting event participates in the competition designated for members of the opposite biological sex, official awards, rankings, and records of results shall nonetheless be categorized consistent with each competitor's biological sex.

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