Restoring Biological Truth to the Workplace Act

Bill: 119-s-2037
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Banks, Jim [R-IN]
Introduced: 2025-06-11
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Latest action: action_date: 2025-06-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Summaries:

tv_txt: II 119th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 2037 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES June 11, 2025 Mr. Banks introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions A BILL To amend title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to prohibit discrimination against employees on the basis of expression that describes, asserts, or reinforces the binary or biological nature of sex.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Restoring Biological Truth to the Workplace Act . 2. Prohibited unlawful employment action Section 703 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ( 42 U.S.C. 2000e–2 ) is amended by adding at the end the following: (o) (1) It shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employer to take an action described in subsection (a) because an employee engages in covered expression, that describes, asserts, or reinforces the binary or biological nature of sex. For purposes of this paragraph, the term covered expression means expression, inside or outside of a workplace, through means including speech, writing, or a depiction, or owning or using an item that contains speech, writing, or a depiction, and includes the use of pronouns. (2) It shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employer to take an action described in subsection (a) because an employee requests or uses a single-sex area that is a bathroom, changing area, or other area where physical privacy is desirable. (3) It shall not be a defense to the use of a practice described in paragraph (1) or (2) that use of the practice is job related for the position in question or consistent with business necessity. . 3. Prohibited retaliation Section 704(a) of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ( 42 U.S.C. 2000e–3(a) ) is amended by inserting , including an unlawful employment practice prohibited under section 703(o) after by this title .