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General Assembly Committee Bill No. 5142
January Session, 2019
LCO No. 4698
Referred to Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH
Introduced by:
(PH)
AN ACT PROHIBITING FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective October 1, 2019) (a) Except as provided in 1
subsection (b) of this section, a person is guilty of performing female 2
genital mutilation when such person knowingly circumcises, excises or 3
infibulates the whole or any part of the labia majora or labia minora or 4
clitoris of a person under the age of eighteen. 5
(b) A surgical operation is not a violation of subsection (a) of this 6
section if such operation is (1) necessary to the health of the person on 7
whom it is performed, as determined by a physician licensed pursuant 8
to chapter 370 of the general statutes, and performed by a physician 9
licensed pursuant to said chapter; or (2) performed on a person in 10
labor or who has just given birth, for medical purposes related to such 11
labor or birth, by a physician licensed pursuant to chapter 370 of the 12
general statutes, a nurse-midwife licensed pursuant to chapter 377 of 13
the general statutes or a person in training to become such a physician 14
or nurse-midwife. A surgical operation is not necessary to the health of 15
the person on whom it is performed if the basis for such necessity is 16
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the belief of such person or any other person that such operation is 17
required as a matter of custom or ritual. 18
(c) Performing female genital mutilation is a class D felony. 19
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 October 1, 2019 New section
Statement of Purpose:
To establish the crime of mutilation of female genitalia of minors as a
class D felony.
[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.]
Co-Sponsors: REP. VAIL, 52nd Dist.; REP. FISHBEIN, 90th Dist.
REP. DUBITSKY, 47th Dist.; SEN. SOMERS, 18th Dist.
REP. PETIT, 22nd Dist.; REP. MUSHINSKY, 85th Dist.
REP. COMEY, 102nd Dist.; REP. SANTIAGO E., 130th Dist.
REP. BORER, 115th Dist.
H.B. 5142