HR 1926 · 117th Congress 2021–2023, ended

Protecting Children From Experimentation Act of 2021

Introduced Mar 16, 2021 Originated House Sponsor Doug LaMalfa R-CA

Fact sheet

Latest action · May 18, 2021 Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

  1. IntroducedMar 16, 2021
  2. Passed HouseNot reached
  3. Passed SenateNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Protecting Children From Experimentation Act of 2021

This bill establishes a new criminal offense for performing gender reassignment medical interventions on minors. It also provides that a minor who receives such an intervention may bring a civil action against each person who performed that intervention.

The bill defines these interventions as certain surgeries or the use of hormones to change the body of an individual to correspond to a sex that is discordant with the individual's biological sex. It excludes, however, interventions in cases where an individual has ambiguous external biological sex characteristics or where a physician has determined that an individual does not have normal sex chromosome structure, sex steroid hormone production, or sex steroid hormone action.

An individual who performs these interventions on a minor is subject to criminal penalties—a fine, a prison term of up to five years, or both.

A minor who receives these medical interventions may not be arrested or prosecuted for an offense under this bill.

Cosponsors 21

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 16, 2021 to Jul 27, 2022, with 13 there on the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
R-TXBrian BabinOriginalMar 16, 2021
R-WIGlenn GrothmanOriginalMar 16, 2021
R-SCJeff DuncanOriginalMar 16, 2021
R-INJim BanksOriginalMar 16, 2021
R-OHJim JordanOriginalMar 16, 2021
R-GAJody B. HiceOriginalMar 16, 2021
R-ILMary E. MillerOriginalMar 16, 2021
R-SCRalph NormanOriginalMar 16, 2021
R-TXRandy K. Weber, Sr.OriginalMar 16, 2021
R-GARick W. AllenOriginalMar 16, 2021
R-ALRobert B. AderholtOriginalMar 16, 2021
R-MSTrent KellyOriginalMar 16, 2021
R-FLW. Gregory SteubeOriginalMar 16, 2021
R-MILisa C. McClainMar 19, 2021
R-TXPat FallonMar 29, 2021
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Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. May 18, 2021Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
  2. Mar 16, 2021Introduced in House
  3. Mar 16, 2021Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Related bills 1

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

BillTitleRelationshipLatest action
S 778Protecting Children From Experimentation Act of 2021Identical billMar 16, 2021

Subjects

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  1. Mar 16, 2021Introduced in House

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