(Mar. 19, 2024) – Today, was the first conference committee between the Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee and the House Health and Human Services Committee. The committee discussed the differences in the House and Senate positions on Senate Bill 233. The legislation restricts the use of state funds to promote gender transitioning, prohibits health care providers from treating children whose gender identity is inconsistent with the child's sex, authorizes a civil cause of action against health care providers for providing such treatments, requires professional discipline against a health care provider who performs such treatment, prohibits professional liability insurance from covering damages for health care providers that provide gender transition treatment to children and adds violation of the act to the definition of unprofessional conduct for physicians and nurses.

The committee saw an amendment on page 3, line 37 allowing a phase-in and phase-out for people currently under active treatment. It changes the effective date to upon publication of the statute book.

The legislation now runs across each chamber floor inside a conference committee report that is non-amendable.