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ID H0675

Bill

Status

Engrossed

3/8/2022

Primary Sponsor

State Affairs Committee

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Origin

House of Representatives

2022 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Expands Idaho Code Section 18-1506B to criminalize performing surgeries, mastectomies, and administering puberty-blocking medications or supraphysiological hormone doses to children for the purpose of changing or affirming their sex perception if inconsistent with biological sex, with penalties of up to life imprisonment.

  • Prohibits knowingly giving permission for, permitting, or facilitating removal of a child from Idaho to undergo prohibited procedures, making these actions felonies.

  • Exempts medical interventions necessary to the health of a child when performed by licensed medical practitioners, except those resulting in impairment or mutilation of reproductive organs solely to change or affirm sex perception.

  • Provides exemption for treatments of medically verifiable genetic disorders of sex development, including ambiguous external sex characteristics or diagnosed disorders determined through genetic testing.

  • Becomes effective January 1, 2023, and includes severability clause ensuring remaining provisions remain valid if any portion is declared invalid.

Legislative Description

Amends existing law to provide for the crime of genital mutilation in certain instances and to provide certain exemptions.

GENITAL MUTILATION OF A CHILD

Last Action

Introduced, read first time; referred to: State Affairs

3/9/2022

Committee Referrals

State Affairs3/9/2022
State Affairs2/24/2022

Full Bill Text

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