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Committee advances bill barring state dollars for gender-affirming care in state plans; amendment sets Jan. 1, 2026 effective date
Summary
Senate Bill 39, carried by Chairman Tillery, would prohibit state general funds and the state health benefit plan from covering gender-affirming care and surgeries; the committee adopted amendments to clarify applicability and set the effective date to Jan. 1, 2026, and the measure passed the committee 6to3.
Chairman Tillery told the Senate Insurance and Labor Committee that Senate Bill 39 is intended to prevent state taxpayer dollars from being spent on gender-affirming care and surgeries that the legislature restricted for minors in last year's Senate Bill 140.
"We are not going to spend state taxpayer dollars on transgender surgeries in our state," Chairman Tillery said, describing the measure as a follow-on to SB 140 and saying it would apply to state health benefit plans, state hospitals and physicians employed by the state, and certain social-service expenditures.
The bill text, as discussed in committee, bars expenditure of…
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