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SF3811 (Legislative Session 94 (2025-2026))

Gender identity public school classroom instruction prohibition and firearm safety, trap shooting, archery, hunting, and angling in school physical education course and appropriation

Related bill: HF3538

AI Generated Summary

Purpose

  • The bill aims to restrict how certain topics are taught in public schools and to change how physical education could include outdoor activities. It also seeks to fund and structure these changes through new programs and required reporting.

Main Provisions

  • Prohibition on certain classroom instruction:

    • In public schools, individuals or groups providing classroom instruction must not discuss or provide instruction about sexual orientation or gender identity to students in kindergarten through grade 8.
    • The state education commissioner must provide schools with guidelines to implement and enforce this prohibition.

  • Parental notification:

    • The bill requires parental notification related to the topics covered by the prohibition and related instructional content.

  • Grant program for PE with firearms safety and outdoor activities:

    • Establishes a grant program to include firearms safety, trap shooting, archery, hunting, and angling in school physical education courses.

  • Reporting and funding:

    • Requires a report related to these provisions.
    • Appropriates money to fund these changes and programs.
    • Includes language to codify the new requirements into Minnesota law (Minnesota Statutes chapters 120B and 121A).

Significant Changes to Existing Law

  • Adds a specific prohibition on classroom discussion or instruction about sexual orientation or gender identity in public schools for students in kindergarten through grade 8.
  • Creates an obligation for the education commissioner to issue guidelines to implement and enforce the prohibition.
  • Introduces a new grant program to expand or modify physical education to include firearms safety and certain outdoor activities (trap shooting, archery, hunting, angling).
  • Requires parental notification regarding the related instructional content and mandates a reporting process.
  • Returns these changes to formal statute language by codifying them in Minnesota Statutes (chapters 120B and 121A).

Terminology and Concepts Used in the Bill

  • sexual orientation
  • gender identity
  • public school
  • kindergarten through grade 8 (K-8)
  • classroom instruction / classroom discussion
  • guidelines
  • commissioner
  • parental notification
  • grant program
  • firearms safety
  • trap shooting
  • archery
  • hunting
  • angling
  • physical education courses
  • report
  • appropriation / appropriating money
  • Minnesota Statutes chapters 120B and 121A

Relevant Terms - sexual orientation - gender identity - public school - kindergarten through grade 8 - classroom instruction - guidelines - commissioner - parental notification - grant program - firearms safety - trap shooting - archery - hunting - angling - physical education - report - appropriation - Minnesota Statutes - 120B - 121A

Bill text versions

Actions

DateChamberWhereTypeNameCommittee Name
February 23, 2026SenateActionIntroduction and first reading
February 23, 2026SenateActionReferred toEducation Policy

Citations

 
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  {
    "analysis": {
      "added": [
        "Proposes codification of new law in Minnesota Statutes chapters 120B and 121A, including a proposed new section 120B.111."
      ],
      "removed": [],
      "summary": "References Minnesota Statutes chapters 120B as the target for codifying new education-related law; the bill also indicates chapters 121A are the codification target. The text includes a proposed new section 120B.111 prohibiting classroom discussion of sexual orientation or gender identity in public schools from kindergarten through grade 8.",
      "modified": []
    },
    "citation": "120B",
    "subdivision": ""
  },
  {
    "analysis": {
      "added": [
        "Proposes codification of new law in Minnesota Statutes chapters 120B and 121A, including a proposed new section 120B.111."
      ],
      "removed": [],
      "summary": "References Minnesota Statutes chapters 121A as a target for codifying new education-related law; no specific subsections cited in the text.",
      "modified": []
    },
    "citation": "121A",
    "subdivision": ""
  }
]

Progress through the legislative process

17%
In Committee

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