South Carolina General Assembly
120th Session, 2013-2014

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S. 80

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General Bill
Sponsors: Senators Bright and Bryant
Document Path: l:\s-res\lb\020surg.hm.lb.docx

Introduced in the Senate on January 8, 2013
Currently residing in the Senate Committee on Corrections and Penology

Summary: Department of Corrections using state funds

HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS

     Date      Body   Action Description with journal page number
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  12/13/2012  Senate  Prefiled
  12/13/2012  Senate  Referred to Committee on Corrections and Penology
    1/8/2013  Senate  Introduced and read first time (Senate Journal-page 63)
    1/8/2013  Senate  Referred to Committee on Corrections and Penology 
                        (Senate Journal-page 63)

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VERSIONS OF THIS BILL

12/13/2012

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A BILL

TO AMEND ARTICLE 1, CHAPTER 3, TITLE 24 OF THE 1976 CODE, RELATING TO THE STATE PRISON SYSTEM, BY ADDING SECTION 24-3-83 TO DEFINE HORMONAL THERAPY, TO DEFINE SEXUAL REASSIGNMENT SURGERY, AND TO PROHIBIT THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS FROM USING STATE FUNDS OR STATE RESOURCES TO PROVIDE A PRISONER WITH SEXUAL REASSIGNMENT SURGERY OR HORMONAL THERAPY.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

SECTION    1.    Article 1, Chapter 3, Title 24 of the 1976 Code is amended by adding:

"Section 24-3-83.    (A)    As used in this section:

(1)    'Hormonal therapy' means the use of hormones to stimulate the development or alteration of a person's sexual characteristics in order to alter the person's physical appearance so that the person appears more like the opposite gender.

(2)    'Sexual reassignment surgery' means a surgical procedure to alter a person's physical appearance so that the person appears more like the opposite gender.

(B)    The Department of Corrections is prohibited from using state funds or state resources to provide a prisoner in the state prison system sexual reassignment surgery; however, if a person is taking hormonal therapy at the time the person is committed to the Department of Corrections, the department shall continue to provide this therapy to the person as long as medically necessary for the health of the person."

SECTION    2.    This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.

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