HB 1365 2020 CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions. hb1365-00 Page 1 of 3 F L O R I D A H O U S E O F R E PR E S E N T A T I V ES A bill to be entitled 1 An act relating to the Vulnerable Child Protection 2 Act; creating s. 456.0335, F.S.; providing a short 3 title; defining the term "sex"; providing criminal 4 penalties for health care practitioners who engage in 5 or cause specified practices to be performed on a 6 minor under certain conditions; providing 7 applicability; providing an effective date. 8 9 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 10 11 Section 1. Section 456.0335, Florida Statutes, is created 12 to read: 13 456.0335 Vulnerable Child Protection Act.— 14 (1) This section may be cited as the "Vulnerable Child 15 Protection Act." 16 (2) As used in this section, the term "sex" means the 17 biological state of being female or male based on sex organs, 18 chromosomes, and endogenous hormone profiles. 19 (3) A health care practitioner who engages in any of the 20 following practices upon a minor, or who causes such practices 21 to be performed upon a minor, for the purpose of attempting to 22 change the minor's sex, or for the purpose of affirming the 23 minor's perception of the minor's sex if that perception is 24 inconsistent with the minor's sex, commits a felony of the 25
HB 1365 2020 CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions. hb1365-00 Page 2 of 3 F L O R I D A H O U S E O F R E PR E S E N T A T I V ES second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, 26 or s. 775.084: 27 (a) Performing surgeries that sterilize, including 28 castration, vasectomy, hysterectomy, oophorectomy, 29 metoidioplasty, orchiectomy, penectomy, phalloplasty, and 30 vaginoplasty; 31 (b) Performing a mastectomy; 32 (c) Administering, prescribing, or supplying the following 33 medications that induce transient or permanent infertility: 34 1. Puberty-blocking medication, which stops or delays 35 normal puberty; 36 2. Supraphysiologic doses of testosterone, to females; or 37 3. Supraphysiologic doses of estrogen, to males; or 38 (d) Removing any otherwise healthy or nondiseased body 39 part or tissue. 40 (4) This section does not apply to a health care 41 practitioner acting in accordance with a good faith medical 42 decision of a parent or guardian of a minor born with a 43 medically verifiable genetic disorder of sex development, 44 including: 45 (a) External biological sex characteristics that are 46 unresolvably ambiguous, such as the minor being born with having 47 46 XX chromosomes with virilization, 46 XY chromosomes with 48 undervirilization, or both ovarian and testicular tissue. 49 (b) A sexual development disorder whereby a physician has 50
HB 1365 2020 CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions. hb1365-00 Page 3 of 3 F L O R I D A H O U S E O F R E PR E S E N T A T I V ES determined through genetic testing that the minor does not have 51 the normal chromosome structure for a male or a female. 52 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2020. 53