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AL HB303
Bill
Status
2/20/2020
Primary Sponsor
Wes Allen
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AI Summary
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Prohibits medical professionals from performing gender-affirming procedures or prescribing puberty-blocking medications, cross-sex hormones, and gender-affirming surgeries on minors, with exceptions for treatment of medically verifiable disorders of sex development.
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Exempts procedures undertaken to treat minors born with medically verifiable disorders of sex development, including ambiguous external genitalia or abnormal sex chromosome structures confirmed through genetic or biochemical testing.
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Prohibits school nurses, counselors, teachers, principals, and administrative officials from encouraging minors to withhold information about gender identity from parents or from withholding health-related information from parents and legal guardians.
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Establishes a Class C felony for violations of medical procedure prohibitions and a Class A misdemeanor for school official violations of parental notification requirements.
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Becomes effective 30 days following passage and approval by the Governor.
Legislative Description
Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act, prohibits gender change therapy for minors, prohibits withholding of certain related information from parents
Public Health Department
Last Action
Pending third reading on day 9 Favorable from Health with 1 amendment
2/27/2020