AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Texas Senate passed a bill Tuesday night that would ban transgender people from using restrooms in government-owned buildings.

It's the third time this year that the Senate has passed the "Texas Women's Privacy Act." It previously sailed through the chamber as Senate Bill 240 during the regular session and as SB 7 during 2025's first called session. The current version is the current special session's SB 8.

It failed to pass in the Texas House of Representatives during the regular session and the first called session. Similar "restroom ban bills" also failed to pass in 2017 and in 2023.

During debate in the Texas Capitol Tuesday night, Sen. Jose Menendez, D-San Antonio, said that the bill's supporters had filmed people in the capitol's restrooms during a prior sessio

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