This Law Firm Publication by Jackson Lewis, P.C. discusses a new law passed by the North Carolina General Assembly preventing cities and counties from passing their own anti-discrimination laws. The controversial Single-Sex Multiple Occupancy Act (known also as HB-2) also requires local public agencies and school boards to designate that multiple occupancy bathrooms and changing facilities be used based on a person's biological sex (the sex indicated on a person's birth certificate) and not based on a person's gender identity. The new law was passed in response to the City of Charlotte's recently-enacted sweeping anti-discrimination law that allowed transgender people to use restrooms based on their gender identity.