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AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Austin City Council could vote next week on asking Austin City Manager T.C. Broadnax to figure out how the city can remodel its public restrooms and changing rooms in order to comply with a state law that takes effect Thursday, according to the council’s Dec. 11 meeting agenda.
‘No cost too high’
The law, Senate Bill 8, requires Texas’ counties, municipalities and state agencies take all “reasonable steps” to prevent people from using gender-segregated, publicly owned private spaces that don’t align with the person’s gender.
Special sessions laws take effect Thursday, including redistricting maps, private spaces
The law’s text doesn’t require any specific measures. Its sponsors in the Texas Legislature also didn’t say what SB 8 requires, but specifically said that requiring people to carry their birth certificates would not be a “reasonable step.”
The law allows the Texas attorney general to investigate complaints, and for private individuals to sue local governments over believed violations…