SB 63 vetoed

Enacting the help not harm act, restricting use of state funds to promote gender transitioning, prohibiting healthcare providers from providing gender transition care to children whose gender identity is inconsistent with the child's sex, authorizing a civil cause of action against healthcare providers for providing such treatments, requiring professional discipline against a healthcare provider who performs such treatment, prohibiting professional liability insurance from covering damages for healthcare providers that provide gender transition treatment to children and adding violation of the act to the definition of unprofessional conduct for physicians.

Type: bill Introduced: January 22, 2025 Last action: May 18, 2026 👁 3 views

📌 Latest Action

Motion to override veto prevailed; Yea 31, Nay 9

🏷️ Topics

"Children and Minors Civil Procedure and Civil Actions Health Professions and Practices Named Acts"
Raw Data (for developers)
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