Amendment 2024-0972h to HB1664 (2024)

Relative to legal remedies for individuals who receive medical detransitioning.


Revision: March 12, 2024, 1:58 p.m.

Rep. Hoell, Merr. 27

March 5, 2024

2024-0972h

09/05

 

 

Amendment to HB 1664-FN

 

Amend RSA 507-E:1, II-a as inserted by section 1 of the bill by replacing it with the following:

 

II-a.  “Medical detransition” means treatment received by an individual for the purpose of reversing or mitigating the effects of gender transition surgery, cross-sex hormones, or puberty-blocking drugs and of restoring the secondary sex characteristics corresponding to the individual’s sex as defined in RSA 354-A:2, XIV-f.

 

Amend the bill by replacing section 2 with the following:

 

2  New Section; Actions, Process, and Service of Process; Medical Injury Actions; Actions for Medical Detransitioning.  Amend RSA 507-E by inserting after section 4 the following new section:

507-E:5  Actions for Medical Detransition.

I.  Any action for a medical injury resulting from the administration or prescription of gender transition surgery, cross-sex hormones, or puberty-blocking drugs shall accrue under RSA 508:4, I no earlier than the time the plaintiff begins a medical detransition.

II.  A plaintiff who brings any action listed in paragraph I shall be presumed to have met the plaintiff’s burden under RSA 507-E:2, I if the individual is infertile as a result of the treatment.  Such presumption may be rebutted only by clear and convincing evidence.