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Introduced February 11, 2025 by Alma Adams · Last progress February 11, 2025
The bill strengthens Title IX protections, transparency, training, and enforcement to expand and protect athletic opportunities—particularly for girls and women—but creates sizeable administrative, reporting, privacy, and litigation costs that may strain schools (especially small/rural districts) and produce short-term disruptions.
Female and male students (especially girls and women) will gain increased access to and clearer protections for participation in school and college athletics, narrowing participation gaps and expanding real opportunities to join teams, competitions, and facilities.
Parents, researchers, policymakers, and the public will get far more transparent, sport- and school-level data (participation, funding, coaches, revenues/expenses, race/ethnicity), enabling accountability and targeted efforts to identify and remedy gender and racial disparities in athletics.
Students will have stronger enforcement tools and remedies (including civil penalties for institutions and a private right of action with damages), which increases the ability to obtain relief and creates stronger deterrence against sex discrimination in athletics.
Schools, colleges, and athletic associations (especially small, rural, and underfunded institutions) will face substantial new administrative, reporting, training, and compliance costs that could divert money from classrooms, athletics, or other student services.
The expansion of enforcement tools, private lawsuits with compensatory and punitive damages, and clarification of retroactive coverage increases litigation and liability risk for institutions and athletic bodies, potentially producing large legal costs and incentives for contentious suits.
Correcting participation counts and reallocating resources to achieve 'equal access' may cause short-term disruption to teams, rosters, schedules, and existing programs, potentially reducing opportunities for some current athletes during transitions.
Based on analysis of 9 sections of legislative text.
Strengthens enforcement of sex nondiscrimination in school athletics by banning sex-based discrimination, expanding data reporting, mandating training, and enabling legal remedies and penalties.
Requires schools, colleges, and athletic associations that receive Federal funds to stop sex-based discrimination in athletics, expand and publish detailed team- and sport-level data, provide annual Title IX training to athletic staff and student-athletes, and face administrative penalties or lawsuits for violations. It creates new reporting deadlines and public databases, strengthens enforcement tools (including monetary damages and civil penalties), and directs the Department of Education to publish gender-equity assessments of athletic participation and spending. Aimed at closing participation and funding gaps for women and girls in school and collegiate sports, the measure mandates annual data collection from both higher education institutions and K–12 schools, requires annual training and a public Title IX coordinator directory, and directs the Secretary to identify and respond to repeated noncompliance with corrective plans and possible fines.