GA-HB653-2023

Georgia · HB 653 · 2023

Professions and businesses; prohibit health care providers from performing practices on minors to alter their appearance relating to gender

Bill key

GA-HB653-2023

State

Georgia

Session

2023

Introduced

March 1, 2023

Last recorded status

introduced

Link

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Citation (Bluebook)

H.B. 653, 157th Gen. Assemb., Reg. Sess. (Ga. 2023), https://www.legis.ga.gov/legislation/64991.

Short citation

Ga. H.B. 653.

Topics

• Youth gender-affirming care

Tags

• Gender Affirming Care Ban: Minors
• Forced Outing: Schools
• Gender Affirming Care Ban: SAFE Act

Summary

Professions and businesses; prohibit health care providers from performing practices on minors to alter their appearance relating to gender

Curator notes

GAC ban with 2 year civil liability for practitioners combined with a forced outing of trans kids to parents in public or private K12 schools bill Includes a SAFE Act version

Sponsors

6 sponsors

Name	Party	Office	District	Role
Josh Bonner	Republican	Representative	HD-073	Primary sponsor
Rick Jasperse	Republican	Representative	HD-011	Primary sponsor
Todd Jones	Republican	Representative	HD-025	Primary sponsor
Mark Newton	Republican	Representative	HD-127	Primary sponsor
Darlene Taylor	Republican	Representative	HD-173	Primary sponsor
Ginny Ehrhart	Republican	Representative	HD-036	Primary sponsor

Model-bill lineage

Model-bill templates this bill matches

• SAFE Act (AR HB1570 as introduced) Near-verbatim
• Help Not Harm 2.0 Derived
• Vulnerable Child Protection Act Derived
• JUST FACTs Act Shares provisions

Similar bills

• AR HB 1570 (2021)
• AZ HB 2608 (2022)
• AZ SB 1138 (2022)
• AZ SB 1451 (2024)
• AZ SB 1687 (2025)
• GA SB 140 (2023)
• GA SB 141 (2023)
• LA HB 570 (2022)
• MS HB 1127 (2023)
• NH HB 619 (2023)
• OH HB 454 (2021)
• OH HB 68 (2024)
• RI H 7884 (2024)
• RI S 2598 (2026)
• RI S 270 (2025)
• RI S 2703 (2024)
• RI S 958 (2023)
• WV SB 692 (2023)

Bill text

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