Florida Senate - 2026                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1010
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       The Committee on Children, Families, and Elder Affairs
       (Yarborough) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete lines 48 - 95
    4  and insert:
    5         (1) A private cause of action exists to recover damages for
    6  personal injury or death resulting from the provision of sex
    7  reassignment prescriptions or procedures, as defined in s.
    8  456.001, to a person younger than 18 years of age which are
    9  prohibited by s. 456.52(1). An individual may recover all
   10  economic and non-economic damages for injuries he or she
   11  sustained before or after age 18 that are the result of sex
   12  reassignment prescriptions or procedures provided in violation
   13  of s. 456.52(1).
   14         (2) The Attorney General may conduct investigations of
   15  alleged violations of s. 456.52(1) and, if the Attorney General
   16  determines that such a violation has occurred, may commence a
   17  civil action under this subsection for damages, injunctive
   18  relief, and civil penalties of up to $100,000 for each
   19  violation. Any damages recovered pursuant to a civil action
   20  brought under this subsection must accrue to the benefit of the
   21  individual injured as the result of sex-reassignment
   22  prescriptions or procedures provided in violation of s.
   23  456.52(1).
   24         (3)(2) The limitations on punitive damages in s. 768.73(1)
   25  do not apply to actions brought under this section.
   26         (4)(3) An action brought under this section:
   27         (a) May be commenced within 20 years after the cessation or
   28  completion of the sex-reassignment prescription or procedure.
   29         (b) Is in addition to any other remedy authorized by law.
   30         (5)(4) The cause of action created by this section does not
   31  apply to:
   32         (a) Treatment with sex-reassignment prescriptions if such
   33  treatment is consistent with s. 456.001(9)(a)1. or 2. and was
   34  commenced on or before, and is still active on, May 17, 2023.
   35         (b) Sex-reassignment prescriptions or procedures that were
   36  ceased or completed on or before May 17, 2023.
   37         Section 3. Section 1014.07, Florida Statutes, is created to
   38  read:
   39         1014.07 Civil liability.—
   40         (1) A private cause of action exists against an employee of
   41  the state, any of its political subdivisions, or any other
   42  governmental entity who violates any of the parental rights
   43  specified in s. 1014.04 or against a health care practitioner
   44  who provides, solicits or arranges to provide, or aids or abets
   45  another to provide, health care services or prescription of
   46  medicinal drugs to a minor child without parental consent in
   47  violation of s. 1014.06. An individual may recover all economic
   48  and non-economic damages resulting from a violation of s.
   49  1014.04 or s. 1014.06. All damages recovered pursuant to a civil
   50  action brought under this subsection must accrue to the benefit
   51  of the affected minor.
   52         (2) The Attorney General may conduct investigations of
   53  alleged violations of s. 1014.04 or s. 1014.06 and, if the
   54  Attorney General determines that such a violation has occurred,
   55  may commence a civil action under this subsection for damages,
   56  injunctive relief, and civil penalties of up to $100,000 for
   57  each violation. All damages recovered pursuant to a civil action
   58  brought under this subsection must accrue to the benefit of the
   59  affected minor.
   60         (3) The limitations on punitive damages in s. 768.73(1) do
   61  not apply to actions brought under this section.
   62         (4) An action brought under this section:
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   64  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   65  And the title is amended as follows:
   66         Delete lines 7 - 23
   67  and insert:
   68         clarifying that a private cause of action exists to
   69         recover damages for personal injury or death resulting
   70         from a violation of a specified provision; providing
   71         that an individual may recover economic and non
   72         economic damages for injuries sustained before or
   73         after age 18 that result from such violation;
   74         authorizing the Attorney General to conduct
   75         investigations of alleged violations of a specified
   76         provision and commence a separate civil action for
   77         damages, injunctive relief, and civil penalties upon
   78         determining a violation has occurred; providing that
   79         damages recovered pursuant to such civil actions
   80         accrue to the benefit of the injured individual;
   81         creating s. 1014.07, F.S.; creating a private cause of
   82         action to recover damages against certain public
   83         employees and health care practitioners for violations
   84         of specified provisions; providing that an individual
   85         may recover economic and non-economic damages that
   86         result from such violations; providing that damages
   87         recovered pursuant to such civil actions accrue to the
   88         benefit of the affected minor; authorizing the
   89         Attorney General to conduct investigations of alleged
   90         violations of specified provisions and commence a
   91         civil action for damages, injunctive relief, and civil
   92         penalties upon determining a violation has occurred;
   93         providing that damages recovered pursuant to such
   94         civil actions accrue to the benefit of the affected
   95         minor; providing