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PRINTER'S NO.     3398
                      THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
                          HOUSE BILL
                          No. 2447
                                                 Session of
                                                   2024
     INTRODUCED BY SIEGEL, HOHENSTEIN, HILL-EVANS, SCHLOSSBERG,
        MAYES, KHAN, SANCHEZ, SHUSTERMAN, D. WILLIAMS, DALEY AND
        CEPEDA-FREYTIZ, JUNE 26, 2024
     REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON PROFESSIONAL LICENSURE, JUNE 26, 2024
                                      AN ACT
 Amending Title 63 (Professions and Occupations (State Licensed))
    of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in powers and
    duties, providing for limitations on discipline.
    The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
 hereby enacts as follows:
    Section 1.     Title 63 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
 Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
 § 3119.    Limitations on discipline.
    (a)    Limitations.--No person shall be disqualified from
 licensure or subject to discipline by a licensing board or
 licensing commission due to any of the following:
           (1)   The applicant or license, certificate, registration
    or permit holder provided or assisted in the provision of
    gender-affirming health care services.
           (2)   As consequence of a judgment, discipline or other
    sanction intended to be imposed or imposed under the laws of
    another state on the applicant or license, certificate,
    registration or permit holder who assisted in the provision
    of gender-affirming health care services if the services
    would have been lawful and consistent with standards for good
    professional practice in this Commonwealth.
    (b)   Definitions.--As used in this section, the term "gender-
 affirming health care services" means supplies, care or services
 that are provided to a person to support the person's gender
 identity. The term includes mental health or psychiatric care,
 surgery, hormone replacement therapy, nonsurgical treatments
 intended to align aspects of a person's life with the person's
 gender identity or other behavioral or medical interventions,
 treatments and therapies designed to support and affirm a
 person's gender identity.
    Section 2.   This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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