{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.banks.senate.gov/news/press-releases/banks-introduces-amendment-protecting-female-athletes-2/", "Banks Introduces Amendment Protecting Female Athletes", "2026-08-06", "2026", "2026-08", "Republican", "Senate", "IN", "Jim Banks", "B001299", "www.banks.senate.gov", "banks", "https://www.banks.senate.gov/news/press-releases/", "scraper", "Amendment would prevent federal legislation from overriding state protections for female athletes\n\nWASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Today, Senator Jim Banks (R-Ind.) offered an amendment to the Protect College Sports Act alongside Senators Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) that would prevent the legislation from preempting state laws protecting women\u2019s sports.\n\nIndiana has enacted protections for female athletes at every level of education. In 2022, the Indiana General Assembly passed legislation to prohibit biological males from competing in girls\u2019 K-12 sports. In 2025, Governor Mike Braun signed a second law extending those protections to women\u2019s collegiate athletics.\n\nThe senators\u2019 amendment would ensure that Indiana and other states\u2019 laws cannot be weakened or overridden by the federal government.\n\nSen. Jim Banks (R-Ind.): \u201cIndiana has one of the strongest laws in the country that keeps biological men from competing in women\u2019s sports. As a father of three daughters, I can\u2019t support any legislation that would preempt Indiana\u2019s law. This amendment would make sure the Protect College Sports Act protects female athletes.\u201d\n\nSen. Josh Hawley (R-MO): \u201cBiological men should never be allowed in women\u2019s sports or women\u2019s locker rooms. We\u2019ve got to make sure state laws protecting women stand.\u201d\n\nSen. Tommy Tubberville (R-Ala.): \u201cProtecting girls and women\u2019s sports is the civil issue of our time. Democrats have proven again and again they don\u2019t give a rip about protecting women from mentally ill men who wake up one day and decide to dress like a girl. I\u2019m proud to stand with Senators Hawley and Banks in introducing this commonsense amendment to protect millions of female student athletes.\u201d\n\nRead the amendment text here.\n\n###", 1, "2026-08-07T06:11:19Z", "2026-08-07T06:12:42Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.banks.senate.gov/news/press-releases/banks-introduces-amendment-protecting-female-athletes-2/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7271599024534225, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}