Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that requires students use restrooms that align with their biological sex and prohibits transgender students from playing on female sports teams.

Highlights:

• Requires all interscholastic or intramural athletic teams or sports leagues sponsored by a state public school to be defined as one of the following based on biological sex, including (Sec. 1):

• Males, men, or boys;

• Females, women, or girls; or

• Coed or mixed.

• Requires that students use restrooms that align with their biological sex in all k-12 public schools (Sec. 2).

• Prohibits transgender students from playing on female sports teams for any k-12 public school in Nebraska (Sec. 2).

• Prohibits any government entity, licensing or accrediting organization, or any athletic association or organization from the following, including (Sec. 5):

• Entertaining a complaint;

• Open an investigation, or 

• Take any other adverse action against a school for maintaining separate interscholastic or intramural athletic teams or sports for biological female students.

• Specifies that any student who is deprived of an athletic opportunity or suffers any direct or indirect harm as a result of a public school knowingly violating the Sports and Spaces Act shall have a private cause of action for injunctive relief, damages, and any other remedy available by law against the school (Sec. 6).

• Authorizes the provisions of this bill to apply retroactively and take effect beginning August 1, 2023 (Sec. 8).