This bill would prohibit the performance of a medical procedure or the prescription or issuance of medication, upon or to a minor child, that is intended to alter the minor child's gender or delay puberty, with certain exceptions.
This bill would provide for the disclosure of certain information concerning students to parents by schools.
This bill would also establish criminal penalties for violations.
Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, prohibits a general law whose purpose or effect would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds from becoming effective with regard to a local governmental entity without enactment by a 2/3 vote unless: it comes within one of a number of specified exceptions; it is approved by the affected entity; or the Legislature appropriates funds, or provides a local source of revenue, to the entity for the purpose.
The purpose or effect of this bill would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of the amendment. However, the bill does not require approval of a local governmental entity or enactment by a 2/3 vote to become effective because it comes within one of the specified exceptions contained in the amendment.
Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Health
Engrossed
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 319
Third Reading Passed
Shelnutt motion to Carry Over to the Call of the Chair adopted Voice Vote
Beasley motion to Adopt lost Roll Call 303
Beasley Amendment Offered
Shelnutt motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 302
Healthcare Amendment Offered
Third Reading
Reported from Healthcare as Favorable with 1 amendment
Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Healthcare
Source: Alabama Legislature