(Mar. 13, 2024) – Today, the House of Representatives took a final vote 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, prohibiting professional liability insurance from covering damages for health care providers that provide gender transition treatment to children and adding violation of the act to the definition of unprofessional conduct for physicians and nurses.

The bill passed on a vote of 80-40.

The legislation now goes back to the Senate where they can concur with house changes or non-concur, which would send the bill to a conference committee made up of the chair, vice-chair and ranking minority members of the House and Senate health committees.