Enrolled Bill Summary

Senate Bill 8 amends the Government Code to require a political subdivision or state agency to designate each multiple‑occupancy private space in a building the political subdivision or state agency owns, operates, or controls for use only by individuals of one sex and to take every reasonable step to ensure an individual whose sex is opposite to the sex designated for such a multiple‑occupancy private space does not enter the private space and to provide for the civil liability for a political subdivision or state agency that violates the bill's provisions.

Senate Bill 8 amends the Civil Practice and Remedies Code to establish that a person, including an entity, attorney, or law firm, who seeks declaratory or injunctive relief to prevent the state, a political subdivision of the state, a governmental entity, a public official, or any other person in Texas from bringing an action to enforce a statute, ordinance, rule, regulation, or other law that regulates access to certain spaces based on an individual's sex in any state or federal court, or who represents a litigant seeking such relief in any state or federal court, is jointly and severally liable to pay the costs and reasonable attorney's fees of the prevailing party, including the costs and reasonable attorney's fees the prevailing party incurs in the party's efforts to recover costs and fees.