Professions and Businesses; health care providers from performing specified practices on minors relating to altering a person's appearance relating to gender; prohibit
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 1 of Title 43 of the O.C.G.A., relating to general provisions relative to professions and businesses, so as to prohibit health care providers from performing specified practices on minors relating to altering a person's appearance relating to gender; to prohibit health care providers from aiding or abetting such practices for minors; to amend Part 3 of Article 16 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the O.C.G.A., relating to student health, so as to prohibit school nurses and other employees and officials from engaging in certain conduct relating to a minor's perception of his or her gender; to provide for legislative findings; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
2023-2024 Regular Session
No health care provider in this state shall knowingly engage in or cause any of the following practices to be performed upon any minor if the practice is performed for the purpose of attempting to alter the appearance of or affirm the minor's perception of his or her gender or sex, if that appearance or perception is inconsistent with the minor's sex: [...] Prescribing or administering testosterone, estrogen, or progesterone to a minor in an amount greater than would normally be produced endogenously in a healthy individual of that individual's age and sex;
No health care provider shall knowingly engage in conduct that aids or abets the practices described in subsection (b) of this Code section on any minor.
No school nurse, counselor, teacher, principal, or other official or staff at a public or private school shall knowingly: (1) Encourage or coerce a minor to withhold from the minor's parent or legal guardian the fact that the minor's perception of his or her gender is inconsistent with his or her sex; or (2) Withhold from a minor's parent or legal guardian information related to the minor's perception that his or her gender is inconsistent with his or her sex.
| date | time | type | location | description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-02-22 | 15:00 | Hearing | 450 CAP | Senate Health & Human Services Committee |
History
| Date | Action |
|---|---|
| 2023-02-13 | Senate Read and Referred |
| 2023-02-09 | Senate Hopper |