Establishes a task force to study and recommend ways to advance transgender equality in areas including healthcare, education, housing, employment and criminal justice, so more legal recognition of and access for transgender people.
The task force is established to study the legal and societal barriers to equality for transgender persons in this state.
Task force must study state actions on health care including access to providers trained in transgender medical issues, and on long-term care, so more access to transgender-related healthcare.
(1) health care, including access to health care providers who are trained in transgender medical issues;
Why the model tagged it this way: The bill creates a task force solely to study and recommend actions advancing equality and improving lives of transgender persons across multiple policy areas; all provisions are study/reporting with an explicit equality goal, producing neutral funding/operations effects but an expands direction for the transgender topic and its subtags.
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SB64Relating to fetal development instruction included as part of the public school health curriculum in certain grade levels.↓Restricts abortion access=No change to transgender recognition & access Died (session ended)
SB1257Relating to required health benefit plan coverage for gender transition adverse effects and reversals.↑Expands transgender recognition & access Law
SB1999Relating to protection for a public employee's or student's use of terms consistent with biological sex.↓Restricts transgender recognition & access↓Restricts transgender recognition & access Died (session ended)