Editor's note: The attached video is from an Aug. 22, 2025, Texas House committee hearing.

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Texas House of Representatives is scheduled to vote Thursday afternoon on a bill that supporters say will help women feel safe in private spaces, while its opponents argue that it will put women and gender diverse people at higher risk.

Senate Bill 8, titled by its authors as the "Texas Women's Privacy Act," would bring fines against local governments and state agencies that the state attorney general finds have failed to "take every reasonable step to ensure an individual whose sex is opposite to the sex designated for a multiple-occupancy private space does not enter the private space.”

The bill is a copy of legislation that failed during 2025's regular session and first spec

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