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relating to the regulation of steroid use by students participating
in athletic competitions sponsored or sanctioned by the University
Interscholastic League.
Steroids to transition a minor no longer count as a medical purpose.
The bill changes the medical exception in the school steroid rules for University Interscholastic League athletes so that steroids given to a minor student to transition the student's biological sex no longer count as a valid medical purpose. It touches minor students in UIL-sponsored or UIL-sanctioned sports who take steroids for that purpose, along with the doctors who prescribe them. Those students lose the medical exception and can be made ineligible to compete under the existing steroid rules, starting immediately or on September 1, 2025.
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Labels: GOT HALFWAY. Passed the Senate on Apr 29, 2025. Died in the House: voted out of the Public Education committee 9-3, then taken up on the floor on May 27, 2025 and postponed.
relating to the regulation of steroid use by students participating
in athletic competitions sponsored or sanctioned by the University
Interscholastic League.
WHAT IT DOES
Steroids to transition a minor no longer count as a medical purpose.
The bill changes the medical exception in the school steroid rules for University Interscholastic League athletes so that steroids given to a minor student to transition the student's biological sex no longer count as a valid medical purpose. It touches minor students in UIL-sponsored or UIL-sanctioned sports who take steroids for that purpose, along with the doctors who prescribe them. Those students lose the medical exception and can be made ineligible to compete under the existing steroid rules, starting immediately or on September 1, 2025.
CHARGES
[ ] NONE FOUND
TOTAL
No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
Senator Campbell moved that Senate Rule 7.18 and the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended and that SB 2920 be placed on its third reading and final passage: SB 2920, Relating to the regulation of steroid use by students participating in athletic competitions sponsored or sanctioned by the University Interscholastic League. The motion prevailed by the following vote: Yeas 25, Nays 6.
Published stock of positions for this vote, except where marked derived.
Yea: 25 (published)
Nay: 6 (published)
Present, not voting: Not printed
Absent: 0 (derived from named list)
Excused: 0 (derived from named list)
Senate journal. Source snapshot 2026-10-19, Central time.
Senator Campbell moved to suspend the regular order of business to take up for consideration SB 2920 at this time on its second reading: SB 2920, Relating to the regulation of steroid use by students participating in athletic competitions sponsored or sanctioned by the University Interscholastic League. The motion prevailed by the following vote: Yeas 22, Nays 9.
Published stock of positions for this vote, except where marked derived.
Yea: 22 (published)
Nay: 9 (published)
Present, not voting: Not printed
Absent: 0 (derived from named list)
Excused: 0 (derived from named list)
Senate journal. Source snapshot 2026-10-19, Central time.
Witnesses13
For
0
Against
6
On
7
Names
Against
Equality Texas1 registration
Self5 registrations
On
Office of the Attorney General1 registration
TEA1 registration
Tea1 registration
Texas Education Agency2 registrations
UIL1 registration
University Interscholastic League1 registration
Sources
13 parsed registrations across the loaded witness lists.
Derived stock of witness registrations. Repeated appearances count separately. Organizations and self-representation appear as printed.
89R16143 RDR-D
By: Campbell, Creighton
S.B. No. 2920
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the regulation of steroid use by students participating
in athletic competitions sponsored or sanctioned by the University
Interscholastic League.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 33.091(h), Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(h) Subsection (b)(1) does not apply to the use by a student
of a steroid that is dispensed, prescribed, delivered, and
administered by a medical practitioner for a valid medical purpose
and in the course of professional practice, and a student is not
subject to a period of ineligibility under Subsection (d)(6) on the
basis of that steroid use. A valid medical purpose does not include
the provision of steroids to a minor student to transition the
student's biological sex.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
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