Saying the House version of the transgender bathroom bill accomplishes nothing, a key senator said Tuesday that he will seek a conference committee to rework the policy.

Sen. Larry Taylor, R-Friendswood, said he will not concur with the ban on transgender-friendly bathroom policies for public schools that the House added to his school safety bill Sunday.

That would lead to a conference committee on Senate Bill 2078, with five senators and five representatives, to find a compromise that can pass both chambers.

"I think we’re talking about minor wording fixes. I’m not talking about redoing the whole thing," Taylor said.

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Taylor said he did not believe the conference committee would try to insert transgender bathroom limits that are closer to Senate Bill 6, which also would have prohibited transgender-friendly policies in universities and government buildings.

"This is all about schools to me," Taylor said. "After the conference committee, it’s brought back to each chamber for up and down votes, so I think you’ll see it stay within schools."

The House amended SB 2078 to require public schools and open-enrollment charter schools to limit bathroom and locker room use to each student’s "biological sex," barring transgender students from using the facility of their gender identity.

Schools would have to provide single-occupancy bathrooms and changing rooms for transgender students, the amendment added.

Taylor said he believed the amendment, as written, "just doesn’t do anything."

"I’d like to reset it to the way it was before, where the schools took care of the rare cases they had, and they accommodated those students and didn’t necessarily interfere with the privacy of all the other students," he said. "We can either set a rule for the whole state, or we can fight this over and over again in court, with all the division within the communities."

After the House amendment was added, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick criticized the effort, saying he had concerns about its "ambiguous language, which doesn’t appear to do much."

Patrick, a leading proponent of SB 6, also indicated that he will be looking for ways to beef up transgender bathroom regulations, saying, "There is still time for the House and Senate to address these concerns — which are both priorities for Texas voters — in a meaningful way."