HSB 214: HSB 214

What it does

This bill relates to prohibitions regarding gender transition procedure-related activities relating to minors. The bill provides definitions used in the bill including “gender”, “health care professional”, “minor”, and “sex”. The bill prohibits, with some exceptions, a health care professional from knowingly engaging in or causing specified practices to be performed on a minor or referring a minor to another health care professional to perform the specified practices if the practice is performed for the purpose of attempting to alter the appearance of, or affirm the minor’s perception of, the minor’s gender or sex, if that appearance or perception is inconsistent with the minor’s sex.

House subcommittee · named February 27, 2023

• Rep. Steven Holt (R) · steven.holt@legis.iowa.gov
• Rep. Skyler Wheeler (R) · skyler.wheeler@legis.iowa.gov
• Rep. Ross Wilburn (D) · ross.wilburn@legis.iowa.gov

Lobbying · 6 for, 33 against

For: Iowa Catholic Conference; Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition; Protect My Innocence; The Family Leader; The Family Leader Foundation; VALOR Iowa

Against: AFSCME Iowa Council 61; American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy; American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa (ACLU-IA); American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists; Common Good Iowa; Episcopal Diocese of Iowa; Human Rights Campaign; Interfaith Alliance of Iowa Action Fund; Iowa Academy of Family Physicians; Iowa Affiliate of the American College of Nurse-Midwives; Iowa Atheists and Freethinkers; Iowa Chapter of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners; and 21 more

In plain words

1. February 27, 2023Filed in the House and sent to the Judiciary committee
2. February 27, 2023House subcommittee named: Holt, Wheeler and Wilburn
3. February 28, 2023Subcommittee recommended passing it
4. March 2, 2023Approved by the House committee
5. March 3, 2023Approved by the House committee, and given a new number: HF 623