No. CS/CS/HB 743
Filed under Healthcare.
Prohibited Sex-reassignment Prescriptions and Procedures; Prohibits person from knowingly aiding or abetting health care practitioner to participate in specified violation; authorizes Attorney General to conduct investigation & bring civil action against health care practitioner or other person; provides for damages, injunctive relief, & civil penalties; provides that any damages collected shall accrue to injured minor.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDFlorida already bars health care practitioners from providing sex-reassignment prescriptions or procedures to minors. The existing felony for a practitioner's violation now also reaches anyone else who knowingly helps that practitioner break the law.
The Attorney General gains new power to sue a practitioner, or anyone who knowingly aided one, for damages, an injunction, and civil penalties of up to $100,000 per violation.
Any damages collected in that lawsuit must go to the minor who was harmed, not to the state. Treatment already underway or completed by May 17, 2023 stays outside this new civil liability.
AIThe existing third-degree felony for a health care practitioner who violates the minor sex-reassignment treatment ban now also applies to any other person who knowingly aids or abets that practitioner's violation.
AIThe Attorney General may investigate and bring a civil action against a health care practitioner, or anyone who knowingly aided one, for damages, injunctive relief, and civil penalties.
AICivil penalties in an Attorney General lawsuit can reach up to $100,000 for each separate violation of the minor treatment ban or related statutes on providing this care to a minor.
AIDamages collected through this new civil action must go to the minor harmed by the violation, not to the state or the Attorney General's office.
AIThis new civil liability does not apply to sex-reassignment treatment that was already underway under the existing informed-consent exception on May 17, 2023, or that had already ceased or finished by that date.