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This bill creates the “Safety in Private Spaces Act,” and states the legislative purpose and intent of the bill as providing restrooms and changing facilities for exclusive use by females or males, respective to their sex, in order to maintain public safety, decency, decorum, and privacy. The bill requires each educational institution to establish in its code of student conduct disciplinary procedures for any student who willfully enters a restroom or changing facility designated for the opposite sex on the premises of the educational institution, for a purpose other than the authorized uses listed in the bill and refuses to depart when asked to do so by an authorized person. The bill defines “restroom” as a room that includes one or more water closet but does not include a unisex restroom. The bill also defines sex as the classification of a person as either female or male based on the person’s gender at birth. To read the full bill summary or HB 1521 in its entirety, CLICK HERE.