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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT relating to athletics."
description: "Amend KRS 156.070 to require the Board of Education or agency designated by the Board of Education to manage interscholastic athletics to promulgate administrative regulations or bylaws requiring schools that participate in interscholastic athletics to designate all athletic teams, activities, and sports based upon the biological sex of the students eligible to participate; prohibit male students from participating in athletic teams, activities, and sports designated as \"girls\"; prohibit designated agencies from entertaining complaints or investigations of policies; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to create a cause of action against a school that violates these provisions; require that an action be brought within two years; provide that the Act may be cited as the Save Women’s Sports Act."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ky"
legislature: "Kentucky General Assembly"
session: "2022RS"
identifier: "SB 83"
citation: "Kentucky SB 83 (2022RS)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Administrative Regulations and Proceedings", "Athletics", "Boards and Commissions", "Children and Minors", "Civil Actions", "Claims", "Education", "Elementary and Secondary", "Short Titles and Popular Names", "Women"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["D. Carroll", "M. Wilson", "M. Wise", "P. Wheeler", "R. Girdler", "R. Mills"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 42
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2022-01-11T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2022-04-13T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b6cfe740-fcd8-4ca9-901d-278099278969"
source_url: "https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb83.html"
source_hash: "2ae626474840f5d015c79a533011b1498fa25572385230c8b057580367e44580"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ky"]
---
# Kentucky SB 83 (2022RS) — AN ACT relating to athletics.
Amend KRS 156.070 to require the Board of Education or agency designated by the Board of Education to manage interscholastic athletics to promulgate administrative regulations or bylaws requiring schools that participate in interscholastic athletics to designate all athletic teams, activities, and sports based upon the biological sex of the students eligible to participate; prohibit male students from participating in athletic teams, activities, and sports designated as "girls"; prohibit designated agencies from entertaining complaints or investigations of policies; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to create a cause of action against a school that violates these provisions; require that an action be brought within two years; provide that the Act may be cited as the Save Women’s Sports Act.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/22RS/sb83/orig_bill.pdf)
2. **Acts Chapter 198** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/acts/22RS/documents/0198.pdf)
3. **Current/Final** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/22RS/sb83/bill.pdf)
## Votes
- PASS SB 83 W/ scs1 sfa2 — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Pass — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Veto Override — **pass** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE SB 83 w/ hcs1 — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Adopt SFA 2 to SB 83 W/ scs1 — **pass** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE SB 83 VETO OVERRIDE — **pass** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- D. Carroll — primary (person)
- M. Wilson — primary (person)
- M. Wise — primary (person)
- P. Wheeler — primary (person)
- R. Girdler — primary (person)
- R. Mills — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-01-11T05:00:00+00:00** introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2022-01-11T05:00:00+00:00** to Committee on Committees (S) `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-13T05:00:00+00:00** to Education (S) `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-10T05:00:00+00:00** reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-11T05:00:00+00:00** 2nd reading, to Rules `reading-2`
- **2022-02-14T05:00:00+00:00** floor amendments (1) and (2) filed to Committee Substitute `amendment-introduction`
- **2022-02-15T05:00:00+00:00** posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, February 16, 2022
- **2022-02-16T05:00:00+00:00** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2022-02-16T05:00:00+00:00** floor amendment (1) withdrawn
- **2022-02-16T05:00:00+00:00** passed 27-8 with Committee Substitute (1) and floor amendment (2) `passage`
- **2022-02-17T05:00:00+00:00** received in House
- **2022-02-17T05:00:00+00:00** to Committee on Committees (H) `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-08T05:00:00+00:00** to Education (H) `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-10T05:00:00+00:00** reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** 2nd reading, to Rules `reading-2`
- **2022-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Monday, March 14, 2022
- **2022-03-16T04:00:00+00:00** floor amendment (1) filed to Committee Substitute `amendment-introduction`
- **2022-03-17T04:00:00+00:00** 3rd reading, passed 70-23 with Committee Substitute (1) `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-03-18T04:00:00+00:00** received in Senate
- **2022-03-18T04:00:00+00:00** to Rules (S) `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-24T04:00:00+00:00** posted for passage for concurrence in House Committee Substitute (1)
- **2022-03-24T04:00:00+00:00** Senate concurred in House Committee Substitute (1)
- **2022-03-24T04:00:00+00:00** passed 26-9 `passage`
- **2022-03-25T04:00:00+00:00** enrolled, signed by President of the Senate `passage`
- **2022-03-25T04:00:00+00:00** enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House `passage`
- **2022-03-25T04:00:00+00:00** delivered to Governor
- **2022-04-06T04:00:00+00:00** Vetoed `executive-veto`
- **2022-04-13T04:00:00+00:00** received in Senate
- **2022-04-13T04:00:00+00:00** to Rules (S) `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-13T04:00:00+00:00** posted for passage for consideration of Governor's veto
- **2022-04-13T04:00:00+00:00** veto overridden `veto-override-passage`
- **2022-04-13T04:00:00+00:00** passed 29-8 `passage`
- **2022-04-13T04:00:00+00:00** received in House
- **2022-04-13T04:00:00+00:00** to Rules (H) `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-13T04:00:00+00:00** taken from Rules
- **2022-04-13T04:00:00+00:00** posted for passage for consideration of Governor's veto
- **2022-04-13T04:00:00+00:00** veto overridden `veto-override-passage`
- **2022-04-13T04:00:00+00:00** passed 72-23 `passage`
- **2022-04-13T04:00:00+00:00** received in Senate
- **2022-04-13T04:00:00+00:00** enrolled, signed by President of the Senate `passage`
- **2022-04-13T04:00:00+00:00** enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House `passage`
- **2022-04-13T04:00:00+00:00** delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 198) `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b6cfe740-fcd8-4ca9-901d-278099278969`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).