Capitol Comments Articles
Health Conference Meets and Agrees to Changes
(Mar. 26, 2024) – Today, conferees that include chair, vice-chair and ranking minority members from both health committees discussed 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 providing gender transition treatment to children and adds violation of the act to the definition of unprofessional conduct for physicians and nurses. The committee reviewed the House-made changes that moved the effective date for those who had started treatment to April 1, 2024, rather than when the bill is printed in the state statute book. The Senate agreed to the House changes.