HB 606

House amendment to the 2nd edition makes the following changes. Amends GS 143C-6-5.6(b1), which prohibits using State funds for surgical gender transition procedures, or for puberty-blocking drugs or cross-sex hormones to prisoners in the State prison system or the Statewide Misdemeanor Confinement program or in the custody of the Department of Adult Correction, or to support the administration of any governmental health plan or government-offered insurance policy offering those procedures or drugs to any prisoner, as follows. Specifies that GS 143C-6-5.6(b1) should not be construed to prevent State funds from being used, directly or indirectly, to address medical complications resulting in imminent physical harm, including the treatment of any infection, injury, disease, or disorder that has been caused by or exacerbated by a previously performed or privately funded gender transition procedure. Inserts severability clause.