Text of MN HF 3264 (2023)
Criminal penalties provided for health care practitioners who perform or cause to be performed specified practices on a minor under certain conditions.
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As introduced
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A bill for an act
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relating to health; providing criminal penalties for health care practitioners who
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perform or cause to be performed specified practices on a minor under certain
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conditions; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 145.
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
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Section 1. [145.4097] PROM ACT.
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Subdivision 1. Citation. This section may be cited as the "PROM (Protect Reproductive
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Organs of Minors) Act."
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Subd. 2. Definitions. As used in this section, the following terms have the meanings
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given.
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Minor. A "minor" is any individual who is under the age of 18.
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Sex. "Sex" means the biological state of being female or male based on sex organs,
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chromosomes, and endogenous hormone profiles.
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Subd. 3. Criminal penalties. A health care practitioner who performs any of the
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following practices upon a minor, or who causes such practices to be performed upon a
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minor, for the purpose of attempting to change the minor's sex or for the purpose of affirming
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the minor's perception of the minor's sex if that perception is inconsistent with the minor's
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sex, commits a felony in the first degree:
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(a) surgeries that sterilize, including castration, vasectomy, hysterectomy, oophorectomy,
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metoidioplasty, orchiectomy, penectomy, phalloplasty, and vaginoplasty; mastectomy;
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(b) administering, prescribing, or supplying the following medications that induce
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transient or permanent infertility:
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REVISOR
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State of Minnesota
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
H. F. No. 3264
NINETY-THIRD SESSION
Authored by Franson, Knudsen, Altendorf, Harder, Fogelman and others
04/19/2023
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Health Finance and Policy
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(1) puberty-blocking medication, which stops or delays normal puberty;
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(2) supraphysiologic doses of testosterone, to females; or
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(3) supraphysiologic doses of estrogen, to males; or
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(c) removing any otherwise healthy or nondiseased body part or tissue.
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Subd. 4. Application. This section does not apply to a health care practitioner acting in
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accordance with a good faith medical decision of a parent or guardian of a minor born with
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a medically verifiable genetic disorder of sex development, including external biological
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sex characteristics that are ambiguous, such as a minor who has 46 XX chromosomes with
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virilization; XY chromosomes with undervirilization; or both ovarian and testicular tissue;
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or a minor who has a sexual development disorder whereby a physician has determined
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through genetic testing that the minor does not have the normal chromosome structure for
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a male or a female.
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Section 1.
REVISOR
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23-04023
04/14/23