Bill Text: TX HB1029 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a prohibition on funding for gender reassignment.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-02 - Referred to State Affairs [HB1029 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB1029-Introduced.html
| By: Harrison | H.B. No. 1029 | |
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| relating to a prohibition on funding for gender reassignment. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subtitle F, Title 10, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Chapter 2275 to read as follows: | ||
| Chapter 2275. Prohibition on Use of Taxpayer Resources | ||
| Sec. 2275.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter: | ||
| (1) "Gender reassignment" means a medical | ||
| intervention, including surgery performed for the purpose of | ||
| altering a person's primary or secondary sex characteristics or | ||
| drugs or biologicals prescribed for the purpose of altering or | ||
| maintaining alteration of a person's primary or secondary sex | ||
| characteristics. | ||
| (2) "Intersex person" means an person who: | ||
| (A) has inborn chromosomal, gonadal, genital, or | ||
| endocrine characteristics, or a combination of those | ||
| characteristics, that are not suited to the typical definition of | ||
| male or female or are atypical for the determined sex of the person; | ||
| or | ||
| (B) is considered by a medical professional to | ||
| have inborn chromosomal, gonadal, genital, or endocrine | ||
| characteristics that are ambiguous or atypical for the determined | ||
| sex of the person. | ||
| Sec. 2275.002. PROHIBITION ON USE OF TAXPAYER RESOURCES FOR | ||
| GENDER REASSIGNMENT. (a) No funds authorized or appropriated by | ||
| State law shall be expended for any gender reassignment. | ||
| (b) No funds authorized or appropriated by State law shall | ||
| be expended for health benefits that covers gender reassignment. | ||
| (c) The prohibition in subsection (a) and (b) does not apply | ||
| to gender reassignment to be performed on an intersex person. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
