Text of IN HB 1444 (2025)

Introduced Version HOUSE BILL No. 1444 _____ DIGEST OF INTRODUCED BILL Citations Affected: IC 25-1-22. Synopsis: Gender transition procedures for minors. Removes the following from the statute prohibiting a physician or other practitioner from knowingly providing gender transition procedures to a minor: (1) Provisions prohibiting a physician or practitioner from aiding or abetting in the provision of gender transition procedures to a minor. (2) An expired provision relating to the continuation of an individual's gender transition hormone therapy until December 31, 2023. Effective: July 1, 2025. Campbell January 21, 2025, read first time and referred to Committee on Public Health. 2025 IN 1444—LS 6467/DI 92 Introduced First Regular Session of the 124th General Assembly (2025) PRINTING CODE. Amendments: Whenever an existing statute (or a section of the Indiana Constitution) is being amended, the text of the existing provision will appear in this style type, additions will appear in this style type, and deletions will appear in this style type. Additions: Whenever a new statutory provision is being enacted (or a new constitutional provision adopted), the text of the new provision will appear in this style type. Also, the word NEW will appear in that style type in the introductory clause of each SECTION that adds a new provision to the Indiana Code or the Indiana Constitution. Conflict reconciliation: Text in a statute in this style type or this style type reconciles conflicts between statutes enacted by the 2024 Regular Session of the General Assembly. HOUSE BILL No. 1444 A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning professions and occupations. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana: 1 SECTION 1. IC 25-1-22-13, AS ADDED BY P.L.10-2023, 2 SECTION 1, IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE 3 JULY 1, 2025]: Sec. 13. (a) Except as provided in subsections (c) and 4 (d), subsection (b), a physician or other practitioner may not 5 knowingly provide gender transition procedures to a minor. 6 (b) Except as provided in subsection (c), a physician or other 7 practitioner may not aid or abet another physician or practitioner in the 8 provision of gender transition procedures to a minor. 9 (c) (b) This section does not prohibit a physician or other 10 practitioner from providing any of the following to a minor: 11 (1) Services to individuals born with a medically verifiable 12 disorder of sex development, including an individual with 13 external biological sex characteristics that are irresolvably 14 ambiguous, including individuals born with forty-six (46) XX 15 chromosomes with virilization, born with forty-six (46) XY 16 chromosomes with undervirilization, or having both ovarian and 17 testicular tissue. 2025 IN 1444—LS 6467/DI 92 2 1 (2) Services provided when a physician or practitioner has 2 diagnosed a disorder of sexual development that the physician or 3 practitioner has determined through genetic or biochemical 4 testing that the individual does not have normal sex chromosome 5 structure, sex steroid hormone production, or sex steroid hormone 6 action. 7 (3) The treatment of any infection, injury, disease, or disorder that 8 has been caused by or exacerbated by the performance of gender 9 transition procedures. 10 (4) Any medical or surgical service undertaken because the 11 individual suffers from a physical disorder, physical injury, or 12 physical illness that would, as certified by a physician or 13 practitioner, place the individual in imminent danger of death or 14 impairment of major bodily function unless the medical or 15 surgical service is performed. 16 (d) A physician or practitioner within the practitioner's scope of 17 practice may continue to prescribe to an individual, who was taking a 18 gender transition hormone therapy on June 30, 2023, as part of a 19 gender transition procedure, gender transition hormone therapy until 20 December 31, 2023. This subsection expires January 1, 2024. 21 SECTION 2. IC 25-1-22-15 IS REPEALED [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 22 2025]. Sec. 15. A physician or practitioner that takes any action that 23 aids or abets another physician or practitioner in the provision of 24 gender transition procedures for a minor violates the standards of 25 practice under IC 25-1-9 and is subject to discipline by the board 26 regulating the physician or practitioner. 2025 IN 1444—LS 6467/DI 92