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The bill strengthens Title IX protections, transparency, training, and federal enforcement to expand and safeguard athletic opportunities—particularly for girls and underrepresented athletes—while imposing significant new compliance, reporting, and litigation costs that may strain school budgets and challenge smaller institutions.
Students (K–12 and postsecondary), especially girls and women athletes, gain stronger, clearer Title IX protections and enforcement that increase equal athletic opportunities and avenues to challenge sex-based exclusion.
Students, parents, and policy-makers get much better data (school-, team-, and sport-level on participation, scholarships, coaches, and expenditures) so inequities are easier to detect and target with remedies.
Schools, students, and communities gain clearer federal oversight with required public compliance plans, annual determinations, and penalties for repeat noncompliance, increasing accountability and potentially improving safety and remedying harms.
Schools, colleges, athletic associations, and local agencies face substantial new administrative and compliance costs (data collection, reporting, training, enforcement) that could divert funds from instruction and programs.
Covered institutions and associations face increased litigation risk and potential damages from expanded private suits and affirmed continuous Title IX coverage, raising legal and financial exposure.
Current athletic programs and participants (including some men's teams) could be disrupted by compliance-driven roster adjustments, funding reallocations, or program changes as schools rebalance opportunities and resources.
Based on analysis of 9 sections of legislative text.
Strengthens enforcement of sex nondiscrimination in athletics with detailed sport-level data reporting, annual Title IX training, a public Title IX coordinator database, and civil penalties and private lawsuits for violations.
Introduced February 12, 2025 by Christopher Murphy · Last progress February 12, 2025
Requires schools, colleges, and athletic associations that receive federal funds to enforce sex nondiscrimination in athletics more strictly, increase public reporting and data transparency for sport-by-sport participation and spending, provide annual Title IX training for athletics staff and students, maintain a public database of Title IX coordinators, and exposes noncompliant entities to civil penalties and private lawsuits. It also mandates new K–12 and higher education reporting timelines, data certification, and external training for college athletes, and requires compliance plans for repeat violators.