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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to prohibitions on the provision to certain children of |
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procedures and treatments for gender transitioning, gender |
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reassignment, or gender dysphoria and on the use of public money or |
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public assistance to provide those procedures and treatments. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Section 62.151, Health and Safety Code, is |
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amended by adding Subsection (g) to read as follows: |
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(g) The child health plan may not provide coverage for |
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services prohibited by Section 161.702 that are intended to |
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transition a child's biological sex as determined by the child's sex |
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organs, chromosomes, and endogenous profiles. |
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SECTION 2. Chapter 161, Health and Safety Code, is amended |
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by adding Subchapter X to read as follows: |
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SUBCHAPTER X. GENDER TRANSITIONING AND GENDER REASSIGNMENT |
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PROCEDURES AND TREATMENTS FOR CERTAIN CHILDREN |
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Sec. 161.701. DEFINITIONS. In this subchapter: |
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(1) "Child" means an individual who is younger than 18 |
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years of age. |
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(2) "Health care provider" means a person other than a |
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physician who is licensed, certified, or otherwise authorized by |
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this state's laws to provide or render health care or to dispense or |
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prescribe a prescription drug in the ordinary course of business or |
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practice of a profession. |
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(3) "Medicaid" means the medical assistance program |
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established under Chapter 32, Human Resources Code. |
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(4) "Physician" means a person licensed to practice |
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medicine in this state. |
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Sec. 161.702. PROHIBITED PROVISION OF GENDER TRANSITIONING |
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OR GENDER REASSIGNMENT PROCEDURES AND TREATMENTS TO CERTAIN |
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CHILDREN. For the purpose of transitioning a child's biological |
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sex as determined by the sex organs, chromosomes, and endogenous |
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profiles of the child or affirming the child's perception of the |
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child's sex if that perception is inconsistent with the child's |
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biological sex, a physician or health care provider may not |
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knowingly: |
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(1) perform a surgery that sterilizes the child, |
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including: |
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(A) castration; |
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(B) vasectomy; |
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(C) hysterectomy; |
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(D) oophorectomy; |
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(E) metoidioplasty; |
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(F) orchiectomy; |
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(G) penectomy; |
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(H) phalloplasty; and |
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(I) vaginoplasty; |
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(2) perform a mastectomy; |
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(3) provide, prescribe, administer, or dispense any of |
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the following prescription drugs that induce transient or permanent |
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infertility: |
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(A) puberty suppression or blocking prescription |
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drugs to stop or delay normal puberty; |
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(B) supraphysiologic doses of testosterone to |
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females; or |
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(C) supraphysiologic doses of estrogen to males; |
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or |
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(4) remove any otherwise healthy or non-diseased body |
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part or tissue. |
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Sec. 161.703. EXCEPTIONS. Section 161.702 does not apply |
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to the provision by a physician or health care provider, with the |
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consent of the child's parent or legal guardian, of: |
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(1) puberty suppression or blocking prescription Statutes affected: Introduced: Health and Safety Code 62.151, Human Resources Code 32.024, Occupations Code 164.052 (Human Resources Code 32, Occupations Code 164, Health and Safety Code 62)
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