Bills · 119th Congress · Sports and Recreation

Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025

Where it stands

  1. Introduced1/7/25
  2. Passed Senate
  3. House
  4. President
  5. Law

Introduced in the Senate on January 7, 2025.

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Procedural motions
SenateOn Cloture on the Motion to Proceed · 3/3/25Cloture on the motion to proceedA vote to end debate on whether to start considering a measure — the way the Senate stops a filibuster before a bill is even taken up. For most legislation it takes three-fifths of all senators (60 with no vacancies). It is not a vote on the bill itself.Senate: About Filibusters and Cloture ↗Congressional Research Service: Invoking Cloture in the Senate ↗
Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejected · Yea 51 · Nay 45Official source ↗
Official summary (CRS)

Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025

This bill generally prohibits school athletic programs from allowing individuals whose biological sex at birth was male to participate in programs that are for women or girls.

Specifically, the bill provides that it is a violation of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 for federally funded education programs or activities to operate, sponsor, or facilitate athletic programs or activities that allow individuals of the male sex to participate in programs or activities that are designated for women or girls. (Title IX prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in federally funded education programs or activities, including in public elementary and secondary schools and in colleges and universities.) Under the bill, sex is based on an individual's reproductive biology and genetics at birth.

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Sponsor
Sen. Tommy Tuberville ( Republican · AL)
Cosponsors
44
Introduced
1/7/25
Policy area
Sports and Recreation

What happens next

The Senate must pass it, then the House must pass the same text, then it goes to the President.

If it isn't enacted by Jan 3, 2027, it expires when the 119th Congress ends.

All actions (7)
  1. 1/7/25Introduced in Senate
  2. 1/7/25Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
  3. 1/8/25Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 2.
  4. 2/27/25Motion to proceed to consideration of measure made in Senate.
  5. 2/27/25Cloture motion on the motion to proceed to the measure presented in Senate. (CR S1434)
  6. 3/3/25Motion to proceed to measure considered in Senate. (CR S1455)
  7. 3/3/25Cloture on the motion to proceed to the measure not invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 51 - 45. Record Vote Number: 100. (CR S1455-1456)