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MS SB2760

Bill

Status

Failed

1/31/2023

Primary Sponsor

Angela Burks Hill

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Origin

Senate

2023 Regular Session

AI Summary

Senate Bill 2760 - Mississippi Help Not Harm Act

  • Prohibits any person from knowingly performing, providing, or aiding gender reassignment surgery or services to minors, with licensed medical professionals subject to license revocation for violations.

  • Defines "gender reassignment surgery or services" to include puberty-blocking medications, hormone therapies, sterilizing surgeries, and genital reconstruction surgeries, with exceptions for disorders of sex development and treatment of injuries caused by prior procedures.

  • Creates a private cause of action for injuries arising from gender reassignment services to minors with a 30-year statute of limitations and removes caps on noneconomic damages awards for such claims filed on or after July 1, 2023.

  • Prohibits Mississippi Medicaid and state-funded health insurance plans from reimbursing any costs of gender reassignment surgery or services.

  • Amends governmental immunity law to waive immunity for state employees who violate the act's prohibitions on gender reassignment services to minors, effective July 1, 2023.

Legislative Description

Mississippi Help Not Harm Act; enact.

Last Action

Died In Committee

1/31/2023

Committee Referrals

Judiciary, Division A1/16/2023

Full Bill Text

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