Prohibiting the performance of certain practices on a minor related to the minor’s sex, and providing penalties

Where it is now

1. ✓
   Done: IntroducedFebruary 10, 2020
2. ✓
   Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 11, 2020
3. ✕
   Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
4. Next: Passes the Senate
5. Next: House committee
6. Next: Passes the House
7. Next: To the Governor
8. Next: Signed into law

Died when the session ended The 2020 session adjourned on June 14, 2020, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?

What’s in it

This bill prohibits a health care professional from engaging in certain practices upon a minor and from causing such practices to be performed upon a minor, for the purpose of attempting to change the minor’s sex or for the purpose of affirming the minor’s perception of the minor’s sex if that perception is inconsistent with the minor’s sex. A health care professional who violates the bill commits a class “B” felony. A class “B” felony is punishable by confinement for no more than years. The bill’s prohibitions do not apply to a health care professional acting in accordance with a good-faith medical decision of a parent of a minor born with a medically verifiable genetic disorder of sexual development.

Full bill text¹

Senate subcommittee

Named February 11, 2020. It hasn’t reported yet.

• Sen. Jake Chapman R
• Sen. Julian B. Garrett R
• Sen. Janet Petersen DEmail

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