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Committee advances substitute to SB 39 to bar state funding for transition-related interventions after extended debate and public testimony
Summary
The committee voted to give a due pass to the committee substitute for Senate Bill 39 (LC461248S), which the sponsor said would bar state funds — including state employee health plans, Medicaid, and state-owned facilities — from covering transition-related interventions.
The committee voted to give a due pass to the committee substitute for Senate Bill 39 (LC461248S), a measure the sponsor described as prohibiting public dollars from covering transition-related medical interventions.
"The bill prevents public dollars from covering transgender surgeries," Representative Cox, the bill sponsor, told the committee. "It prohibits state employee health care plans from covering intervention. It also prohibits medical assistance programs including Medicaid from covering any medical interventions. And then as I just said, it prohibits the same sort of medical interventions from state owned or operated health care facilities, which include all correctional institutions."
Committee debate focused on several issues the sponsor acknowledged were unresolved or required clarification: the bill's defined terms (committee…
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