Alaska Bill Prohibiting State Funding for Gender Reassignment Medical Procedures (HB 5)

HB 5 would prohibit the state from providing insurance coverage for gender reassignment medical procedures. The state would further be prohibited from paying for or reimbursing the cost of any gender reassignment medical procedure.

The bill defines “gender reassignment medical procedure” to mean a surgery or pharmaceutical drug therapy performed or supervised by a physician for the purpose of physiologically changing a person’s sex.

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Related Legislation

Identical to HB 364, which failed to pass during the 2018 legislative session.

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Latest Action

1/7/19 – Prefiled.

2/20/19 – Introduced; referred to House State Affairs Committee.

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