Amend CSSB 1 (house committee printing) in Article III of the bill, in the Special Provisions Relating Only to State Agencies of Higher Education (page III-269), by adding the following appropriately numbered rider:

____.  Prohibition Against Appropriation of Money to any Institution of Higher Education That Affirms Gender Inconsistent with Biological Sex. Money appropriated by this Act may not be appropriated to any institution of higher education that communicates, insinuates, endorses, or affirms in any manner that an individual has or can have a gender identity that is inconsistent with the individual's biological sex as determined by the individual's birth certificate or other proof of identity on file with the individual's school to the extent that general law allows.