26RS SB 179

Senate Bill 179

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Last Action	02/10/26: to Committee on Committees (S)
Title	AN ACT relating to sex-based classifications.
Bill Documents	Introduced
Fiscal Impact Statements	Corrections Impact Local Mandate
Bill Request Number	1277
Sponsors	L. Tichenor, S. Funke Frommeyer, G. Boswell, R. Girdler, J. Higdon, S. Madon, R. Mills, S. Rawlings, A. Reed, G. Williams, M. Wilson
Summary of Original Version	Create new sections of KRS Chapter 61 to define "boy," "equal," "female," "girl," "male," "man," "sex," and "woman"; prohibit any state or local law, regulation, ordinance, or policy from treating males or females unfairly from similiarly situated members of the opposite sex, but permit separation of the sexes if in the interest of maintaining safety, privacy, and fairness; provide a non-exhaustive list of examples of areas in which public entities may distinguish between the sexes; require any public school, public school district, state agency, department, local government, special district or any political subdivision of those entities that collects vital statistics to identify each person as either male or female; provide that the Act may be cited as the Kentucky Women's Bill of Rights.
Index Headings of Original Version	Children And Minors - Boy, definition Children And Minors - Girl, definition Children And Minors - Vital statistics, data collection, boy and girl, identification Civil Rights - Sex discrimination, prohibition Corrections Impact - Kentucky Women's Bill of Rights Education, Elementary And Secondary - Sex discrimination, prohibition Education, Elementary And Secondary - Vital statistics, data collection, male and female, identification Education, Higher - Sex discrimination, prohibition Education, Higher - Vital statistics, data collection, male and female, identification Local Government - Sex discrimination, prohibition Local Mandate - Kentucky Women's Bill of Rights Men - Male, definition Men - Vital statistics, identification of sex Short Titles And Popular Names - Kentucky Women's Bill of Rights State Agencies - Sex discrimination, prohibition State Agencies - Vital statistics, data collection, male and female, identification Women - Female, definition Women - Kentucky Women's Bill of Rights, establishment Women - Vital statistics, identification of sex