AN ACT relating to correctional facilities.
Create new section of KRS Chapter 197 to define terms; prohibit hormone treatment or elective surgery for gender reassignment.
2025 Regular Session
Except as provided in subsection (3) of this section, public funds shall not be directly or indirectly used, granted, paid, or distributed for the purpose of providing a cosmetic service or elective procedure to an inmate in a correctional facility.
"Cosmetic service or elective procedure" means any procedure, treatment, or surgery to enhance or alter the appearance of any area of the head, neck, and body, including but not limited to: 1. Prescribing or administering cross-sex hormones in amounts greater than would normally be produced endogenously in a healthy person of the same age and sex; and 2. Performing any gender reassignment surgery to alter or remove physical or anatomical characteristics or features that are typical for a person’s sex in order to instill or create physiological or anatomical characteristics that resemble a different sex;
date | time | type | location | description |
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2025-03-12 | 10:00 | Hearing | Annex Room 149 | House Committee On Judiciary |
2025-03-12 | 09:30 | Hearing | Annex Room 131 | Senate Committee On Transportation |
2025-02-13 | 09:00 | Hearing | Annex Room 149 | Senate Committee On Judiciary |
History
Date | Action |
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2025-03-27 | became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 99) |
2025-03-26 | filed without Governor's signature with the Secretary of State |
2025-03-14 | taken from Rules |
2025-03-14 | placed in the Orders of the Day |
2025-03-14 | 3rd reading, passed 73-12 |
2025-03-14 | received in Senate |
2025-03-14 | enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House |
2025-03-14 | enrolled, signed by President of the Senate |
2025-03-14 | delivered to Governor |
2025-03-13 | 2nd reading, to Rules |
2025-03-13 | floor amendment (6) filed |
2025-03-12 | reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar |
2025-03-12 | floor amendments (4) and (5) filed |
2025-03-11 | floor amendment (3) filed |
2025-03-07 | floor amendments (1) and (2-title) filed |
2025-03-07 | to Judiciary (H) |
2025-02-19 | received in House |
2025-02-19 | to Committee on Committees (H) |
2025-02-18 | posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, February 18, 2025 |
2025-02-18 | 3rd reading, passed 31-6 |
2025-02-18 | floor amendment (1) filed |
2025-02-14 | 2nd reading, to Rules |
2025-02-13 | reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar |
2025-02-11 | to Judiciary (S) |
2025-02-06 | introduced in Senate |
2025-02-06 | to Committee on Committees (S) |