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CO HB1114

Bill

Status

Failed

2/13/2020

Primary Sponsor

Shane Sandridge

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Origin

House of Representatives

2020 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Creates a new crime of "unlawful sex reassignment treatment of a minor" classified as a class 3 felony, prohibiting health care professionals from knowingly administering drugs, hormones, or performing surgical procedures to facilitate sex reassignment in minors under 18 years old.

  • Exempts treatment of minors with physical disorders of sex development from the prohibition.

  • Defines "sex reassignment surgical procedure" to include mastectomy, hysterectomy, oophorectomy, metoidioplasty, phalloplasty, vasectomy, orchiectomy, penectomy, and vaginoplasty.

  • Requires professional disciplinary action against dentists, physicians, physician assistants, advanced practice nurses, optometrists, and podiatrists convicted of this offense, including convictions involving guilty pleas or deferred sentences.

  • Applies to offenses committed on or after the effective date and may require a five-year appropriation for potential increased state correctional facility costs.

Legislative Description

Protect Minors From Mutilation And Sterilization

Last Action

House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely

2/13/2020

Committee Referrals

State, Veterans, and Military Affairs1/15/2020

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