Gender and Biological Sex
Defines "sex"; requires certain applications & licenses to indicate person's sex, rather than gender; provides requirements for health insurance policies, group health insurance policies, health benefit plans, & health maintenance contracts relating to coverage for sex-reassignment prescriptions or procedures & certain mental health & therapeutic services.
Selected quotes
A health insurance policy [...] may offer, for an appropriate additional premium, coverage for sex-reassignment prescriptions or procedures [...] only if the same health insurance policy also provides coverage for treatment to detransition from the sex-reassignment prescriptions or procedures.
A health insurer that delivers or issues a health insurance policy that provides coverage described under subsection (1) must also offer a health insurance policy that does not provide such coverage.
A health insurance policy that is delivered or issued to a person in the state may not prohibit the coverage of mental health or therapeutic services to treat a person's perception that his or her sex [...] is inconsistent with such person's sex at birth by affirming the insured's sex.
Legislative Session
2024 Regular Session
Calendar
| date | time | type | location | description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-02-22 | 08:00 | Hearing | N/A | House Infrastructure Strategies Committee Hearing |
| 2024-02-01 | 08:00 | Hearing | N/A | House Insurance & Banking Subcommittee Hearing |
| 2024-01-22 | 15:00 | Hearing | N/A | House Select Committee on Health Innovation Hearing |
History
| Date | Action |
|---|---|
| 2024-03-08 | Died in Rules |
| 2024-03-01 | Received |
| 2024-03-01 | Referred to Rules |
| 2024-03-01 | In Messages |
| 2024-03-01 | CS passed; YEAS 75, NAYS 33 |
| 2024-03-01 | Read 3rd time |
| 2024-02-29 | Added to Third Reading Calendar |
| 2024-02-29 | Placed on 3rd reading |
| 2024-02-29 | Amendment 901105 Failed |
| 2024-02-29 | Amendment 135825 Failed |
| 2024-02-29 | Amendment 037901 Failed |
| 2024-02-29 | Amendment 980525 Failed |
| 2024-02-29 | Amendment 755937 Failed |
| 2024-02-29 | Read 2nd time |
| 2024-02-26 | Bill added to Special Order Calendar (2/29/2024) |
| 2024-02-23 | Added to Second Reading Calendar |
| 2024-02-23 | Bill released to House Calendar |
| 2024-02-23 | Reported out of Infrastructure Strategies Committee |
| 2024-02-22 | Favorable by Infrastructure Strategies Committee |
| 2024-02-20 | Added to Infrastructure Strategies Committee agenda |
| 2024-02-05 | 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2) |
| 2024-02-05 | Now in Infrastructure Strategies Committee |
| 2024-02-05 | Referred to Infrastructure Strategies Committee |
| 2024-02-03 | CS Filed |
| 2024-02-03 | Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) |
| 2024-02-02 | Reported out of Insurance & Banking Subcommittee |
| 2024-02-01 | Favorable with CS by Insurance & Banking Subcommittee |
| 2024-01-30 | Added to Insurance & Banking Subcommittee agenda |
| 2024-01-25 | Now in Insurance & Banking Subcommittee |
| 2024-01-25 | Referred to Infrastructure Strategies Committee |
| 2024-01-25 | Referred to Insurance & Banking Subcommittee |
| 2024-01-24 | 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) |
| 2024-01-24 | CS Filed |
| 2024-01-24 | Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) |
| 2024-01-23 | Reported out of Select Committee on Health Innovation |
| 2024-01-22 | Favorable with CS by Select Committee on Health Innovation |
| 2024-01-18 | Added to Select Committee on Health Innovation agenda |
| 2024-01-13 | Now in Select Committee on Health Innovation |
| 2024-01-13 | Referred to Infrastructure Strategies Committee |
| 2024-01-13 | Referred to Insurance & Banking Subcommittee |
| 2024-01-13 | Referred to Select Committee on Health Innovation |
| 2024-01-09 | 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) |
| 2024-01-09 | Filed |