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Conference report for HB712‑FN narrows youth gender surgeries, adds residential facility QA and updates abortion‑data rules
Summary
Conferees on HB 712‑FN narrowed the circumstances under which gender‑related surgery may be performed on minors, required licensed residential care facilities to maintain quality assurance programs, and amended state law to strengthen abortion statistics reporting and penalties for willful noncompliance.
Conferees on HB 712‑FN discussed three distinct but bundled topics in the Senate redline: (1) limits on gender surgery for minors, (2) required quality assurance programs for licensed residential care facilities, and (3) amendments to RSA 3:29:49 to collect and report abortion statistics.
On gender surgery, the Senate version narrowed permitted procedures for persons under 18 to those "physiologically necessary" or reconstructive work after malignancy, injury, infection or malformation. The committee revised a phrase the House had found ambiguous and replaced it with statutory text clarifying that…
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