Overview

• Senate Bill 8 covers multi-occupancy restrooms, locker rooms, changing rooms and shower rooms in government-owned buildings, including public schools and universities.
• The statute directs the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to house inmates by sex in correctional facilities.
• Family violence shelters are barred from serving transgender women, except when the person is 17 or younger and the child of a woman receiving services.
• Entities that violate the law face fines of $25,000 for a first offense and $125,000 for subsequent offenses, and complaints can prompt attorney general investigations.
• Exceptions allow access for custodial and maintenance work, law enforcement and medical purposes, assisting an individual in need, and for adults accompanying children under 10.