TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — In an 11th-hour maneuver, Florida House Republicans on Wednesday revived a bill to ban transgender females from competing in girl’s and women’s sports, attaching the measure to a larger bill dealing with charter schools as the legislative session hurtles toward a scheduled end Friday.
A standalone bill, SB 2012, appeared to have died earlier in the session when the Senate failed to pass it out of its final committee hearing, preventing it from getting to the floor in that chamber.
But Rep. Kaylee Tuck, R-Lake Placid, sponsor of the original House bill, amended it onto SB 1028, which has become a standoff between the House and Senate in the session’s final days. The Senate earlier on Wednesday stripped out a provision added by the House to impose term limits on school board members.
