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General Assembly

 

Raised Bill No. 190

February Session, 2018

 

LCO No. 1111

 

*01111_______KID*

Referred to Committee on COMMITTEE ON CHILDREN

 

Introduced by:

 

(KID)

 

AN ACT PROHIBITING FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. (NEW) (Effective from passage) (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, a person is guilty of performing female genital mutilation when such person knowingly circumcises, excises or infibulates the whole or any part of the labia majora or labia minora or clitoris of a person under the age of eighteen.

(b) A surgical operation is not a violation of subsection (a) of this section if such operation is (1) necessary to the health of the person on whom it is performed, and is performed by a physician licensed pursuant to chapter 370; or (2) performed on a person in labor or who has just given birth by a physician licensed pursuant to chapter 370, a nurse-midwife licensed pursuant to chapter 377 or a person in training to become such a physician or nurse-midwife. A surgical operation is not necessary to the health of the person on whom it is performed if the basis for such necessity is the belief of such person or any other person that such operation is required as a matter of custom or ritual.

(c) Performing female genital mutilation is a Class D felony.

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:

Section 1

from passage

New section

Statement of Purpose:

To prohibit the practice of female genital mutilation.

[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not underlined.]