The U.S. Senate is preparing to consider a bill from Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) this week to remove federal funding from institutions that allow males to compete in women’s sports, essentially codifying President Donald Trump’s similar executive order into law.

“Today, my @SenateGOP colleagues will join me in standing up for women’s sports. We are fighting to preserve the American Dream for hundreds of thousands of young girls across the country. It’s up to @SenateDems to play ball and join us, or continue pushing their anti-woman agenda,” said Sen. Tuberville on X.

The Senate is scheduled to vote tonight to invoke “cloture” for Tuberville’s Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, requiring a three-fifths majority vote in the Senate to end a filibuster and force a full Senate vote on the bill.

A successful cloture vote would require 60 votes in the Senate and would therefore need seven Democratic senators to cross the aisle and vote with the Republican majority for it to succeed.

The House version of the bill passed in January, with two Democrats voting with the slim Republican majority in favor of the bill. If the bill passes through the Senate, it will move on for presidential approval.

The bill would essentially codify an executive order issued by President Trump in early February, withholding federal funds from any educational programs and institutions that continue to allow biological males to compete in girls’ sports.

The Maine Department of Education and Gov. Janet Mills (D-Maine) have vowed to resist Trump’s order, risking an estimated $280 million in federal funding while the state already faces an impending half-billion-dollar budget deficit.

Gov. Mills has promised that Maine will take legal action against the President, claiming that he does not have the authority to unilaterally rescind funds already approved by Congress.

If Tuberville’s bill passes through the Senate and is signed into law, the funds will be rescinded through an act of Congress, rather than simply an executive action.