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 appearance of 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.
Health second Amendment Offered
Health first Amendment Offered
Health third Amendment Offered
Pending third reading on day 16 Favorable from Health with 3 amendments
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar 3 amendments
Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Health
Shelnutt motion to Reconsider and Table adopted Voice Vote
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 331
Singleton motion to Adopt lost Roll Call 330
Singleton Amendment Offered
Shelnutt motion to Table adopted Voice Vote
Whatley Amendment Offered
BILLS ON THIRD READING RESUMED
Shelnutt motion to Carry Over to the Call of the Chair adopted Voice Vote
Third Reading Carried Over to Call of the Chair
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar
Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Healthcare
Source: Alabama Legislature