By: Perry, Springer  S.B. No. 2          (In the Senate - Filed August 6, 2021; August 7, 2021, read   first time and referred to Committee on Health & Human Services;   August 9, 2021, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 6,   Nays 2; August 9, 2021, sent to printer.)Click here to see the committee vote     A BILL TO BE ENTITLED   AN ACT     relating to requiring public school students to compete in   interscholastic athletic competitions based on biological sex.          BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:          SECTION 1.  Subchapter D, Chapter 33, Education Code, is   amended by adding Section 33.0834 to read as follows:          Sec. 33.0834.  INTERSCHOLASTIC ATHLETIC COMPETITION BASED   ON BIOLOGICAL SEX. (a)  Except as provided by Subsection (b), an   interscholastic athletic team sponsored or authorized by a school   district or open-enrollment charter school may not allow a student   to compete in an interscholastic athletic competition sponsored or   authorized by the district or school that is designated for the   biological sex opposite to the student's biological sex as   correctly stated on:                (1)  the student's official birth certificate, as   described by Subsection (c); or                (2)  if the student's official birth certificate   described by Subdivision (1) is unobtainable, another government   record.          (b)  An interscholastic athletic team described by   Subsection (a) may allow a female student to compete in an   interscholastic athletic competition that is designated for male   students if a corresponding interscholastic athletic competition   designated for female students is not offered or available.          (c)  For purposes of this section, a statement of a student's   biological sex on the student's official birth certificate is   considered to have correctly stated the student's biological sex   only if the statement was:                (1)  entered at or near the time of the student's birth;   or                (2)  modified to correct a clerical error in the   student's biological sex.          (d)  The University Interscholastic League shall adopt rules   to implement this section, provided that the rules must be approved   by the commissioner in accordance with Section 33.083(b).          SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 2021-2022   school year.          SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives   a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as   provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this   Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this   Act takes effect on the 91st day after the last day of the   legislative session.     * * * * *