Signed by Governor Jeff Landry

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to concur with Senate amendments and pass a bill that requires teachers get parental consent to use a student's preferred pronouns, and protects teachers from disciplinary action if they refuse to use them in Louisiana.

Highlights:

• Prohibits public schools from adopting a policy that provides for an inquiry of a student’s or employee’s pronouns that is inconsistent with the student’s or employee’s sex (Sec. 3).

• Prohibits public schools from enforcing disciplinary action on students who decline or refuse to address a person using a name other than the person’s legal name, or by a pronoun that is inconsistent with the person’s sex (Sec. 3).

• Specifies that if a public school employee refers to a student by a pronoun that is inconsistent with the student’s sex or refers to the student by a name other than the student’s legal name, the parent may seek corrective action by the school principal (Sec. 3).

Full Bill Text

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to amend and pass a bill that requires teachers get parental consent to use a student's preferred pronouns, and protects teachers from disciplinary action if they refuse to use them in Louisiana.

Highlights:

• Prohibits public schools from adopting a policy that provides for an inquiry of a student’s or employee’s pronouns that is inconsistent with the student’s or employee’s sex (Sec. 3).

• Prohibits public schools from enforcing disciplinary action on students who decline or refuse to address a person using a name other than the person’s legal name, or by a pronoun that is inconsistent with the person’s sex (Sec. 3).

• Specifies that if a public school employee refers to a student by a pronoun that is inconsistent with the student’s sex or refers to the student by a name other than the student’s legal name, the parent may seek corrective action by the school principal (Sec. 3).

Full Bill Text