House committee OKs proposal expanding AG enforcement of ban on minors’ sex reassignment

House committee OKs proposal expanding AG enforcement of ban on minors’ sex reassignment

A proposal by Naples Republican Rep. Lauren Melo that would give Florida’s Attorney General new authority to investigate health care practitioners and impose steep civil penalties for violations tied to the state’s ban on sex-reassignment prescriptions and procedures for minors cleared its second House committee. The bill would authorize the Attorney General, currently James Uthmeier, to investigate and bring civil actions against health care pr…