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Providing an exception to a minor’s legal capacity to consent to the provision of medical care or services for a sexually transmitted disease or infection
Topics:Health care
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 17, 2024
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 23, 2024
- Done: Senate committeeFebruary 14, 2024
- Stopped: Passes the SenateDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2024 session adjourned on April 19, 2024, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary Currently, minors can give consent to doctors for medical care related to sexually transmitted diseases. This change would take away that right specifically for vaccinations meant to prevent those diseases. Under this new rule, minors would no longer be able to agree to these shots on their own.1
Read the official explanation
This bill relates to the legal capacity of a minor to consent to provision of medical care or services to the minor for the prevention, diagnosis, or treatment of a sexually transmitted disease or infection. Under Code section 139A.35, a minor has the legal capacity to act and give consent to provision of medical care or services to the minor for the prevention, diagnosis, or treatment of a sexually transmitted disease or infection by a hospital, clinic, or health care provider. The bill amends the Code section to provide an exception to the minor’s legal capacity to consent. Under the bill, a minor does not have the legal capacity to consent to the provision of vaccinations for a sexually transmitted disease or infection.
Senate subcommittee
Named January 23, 2024. On January 24, 2024 it recommended passage. [].
Three legislators hear a bill first and recommend what the committee should do; it’s the best time to weigh in. How to take part
10 written public comments to its subcommittee: January 24, 2024 (10) · on the Legislature’s site
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- HF 104 Providing an exception to a minor’s legal capacity to consent to the provision of medical …91st General Assembly · Renumbered as HF 384Very similar
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