18 Facts About Bathroom bill

Bathroom bill is the common name for legislation or a statute that denies access to public toilets by gender or transgender identity.

Bathroom bill was introduced in Alabama on February 7,2017, by state Senator Phil Williams.

In Colorado, in February 2015, a Bathroom bill died in committee that proposed banning transgender people from using changing rooms of their gender identity.

Bathroom bill was introduced in Florida in the spring of 2015 as H B 583 by Representative Frank Artiles.

The Bathroom bill went through two House committees, but did not pass.

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The bill died after public protests over the legislation's provision allowing students to sue their school if they encountered a transgender person in a bathroom or locker room.

In March 2019, a bill passed both houses of the New Mexico Legislature to explicitly allow gender-neutral bathrooms.

The Bathroom bill was signed into law by the Governor within the same month and went into effect on July 1,2019.

New York State Legislature, in July 2020, passed a bill to implement gender-neutral bathrooms within all single occupancy public toilets across the state.

South Dakota's bill was, according to ADF's legal counsel, based on the ADF's model bathroom bill legislation.

In 2017, the Bathroom bill was re-introduced, but died in the Senate Education Committee.

Nevertheless, critics of the legislation were still concerned that the bill would be interpreted as condoning harassment of transgender individuals in bathrooms by others who find their presence objectionable.

An analysis by NBC News determined that the Texas Bathroom bill was influenced by ADF's model legislation, which proposes $2,500 in damages per encounter with a transgender person in a shared restroom.

Under this proposed Bathroom bill, building managers who repeatedly and knowingly allow transgender individuals to use the facility of their gender identity would face a fine of up to $10,000.

On May 11,2018, Vermont Governor Phil Scott signed a Bathroom bill requiring all single-user public restrooms to be gender-neutral.

The following month, the bill was revised to allow public schools to offer gender-neutral bathrooms.

The Bathroom bill was passed by the House of Commons in 2011 but was defeated by the Senate.

The Bathroom bill passed the legislative process in the House of Commons and the Senate, and became law upon receiving Royal Assent on June 19,2017, coming into force immediately.