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Bill would ban K-12 gender identity, sexual orientation

by ROYCE MCCANDLESS / Coeur d'Alene Press
| March 10, 2026 1:06 AM

BOISE — The Senate Education Committee voted Monday to hold a bill in committee seeking to enact a total ban on gender identity and sexual orientation in K-12 schools. House Bill 516 sought to further tighten rules on this instruction that passed in the previous legislative session.

The bill revises House Bill 352, which was itself an addition to the 2024 Parental Rights Act that brought a slew of parental consent requirements for issues ranging from medical care received at schools to interactions with school resource officers. 

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