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Section 5. Section 456.52, Florida Statutes, is created to read:

456.52 Sex-reassignment prescriptions and procedures; prohibitions; informed consent.—

(1) Sex-reassignment prescriptions and procedures are prohibited for patients younger than 18 years of age, except that:

(a) The Board of Medicine and the Board of Osteopathic Medicine shall, within 60 days after the effective date of this act, adopt emergency rules pertaining to standards of practice under which a patient younger than 18 years of age may continue to be treated with a prescription consistent with those referenced under s. 456.001(9)(a)1. or 2. if such treatment for sex reassignment was commenced before, and is still active on, the effective date of this act. In developing rules under this paragraph, the boards shall consider requirements for physicians to obtain informed consent from such patient′s parent or legal guardian, consistent with the parameters of informed consent under subsections (2) and (4), for such prescription treatment, and shall consider the provision of professional counseling services for such patient by a board-certified psychiatrist licensed under chapter 458 or chapter 459 or a psychologist licensed under chapter 490 in conjunction with such prescription treatment.

(b) A patient meeting the criteria of paragraph (a) may continue to be treated by a physician with such prescriptions according to rules adopted under paragraph (a) or nonemergency rules adopted under paragraph (6)(b).