Page:Florida Senate Bill 254.pdf/1

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 * style="width:50%"|ENROLLED 2023 Legislature
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An act relating to treatments for sex reassignment; amending s. 61.517, F.S.; granting courts of this state temporary emergency jurisdiction over a child present in this state if the child has been subjected to or is threatened with being subjected to sex-reassignment prescriptions or procedures; amending s. 61.534, F.S.; providing that, for purposes of warrants to take physical custody of a child in certain child custody enforcement proceedings, serious physical harm to the child includes, but is not limited to, being subjected to sex-reassignment prescriptions or procedures; creating s. 286.31, F.S.; defining the term “governmental entity”; prohibiting certain public entities from expending state funds for the provision of sex-reassignment prescriptions or procedures; amending s. 456.001, F.S.; defining the terms “sex” and “sex-reassignment prescriptions or procedures”; creating s. 456.52, F.S.; prohibiting sex-reassignment prescriptions and procedures for patients younger than 18 years of age; providing an exception; requiring the Board of Medicine and the Board of Osteopathic Medicine to adopt certain emergency rules within a specified timeframe; requiring the boards to consider specified factors in developing such rules; requiring that such prescriptions and procedures for patients older than 18 years of age be prescribed, administered, or performed only with the voluntary and informed consent of the patient; providing criteria