Protecting Minors from Medical Malpractice Act of 2022
Latest action · Jun 22, 2022 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
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.
- IntroducedJun 22, 2022
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Protecting Minors from Medical Malpractice Act of 2022
This bill makes a medical practitioner who performs a gender-transition procedure on an individual who is less than 18 years of age liable for any physical, psychological, emotional, or physiological harms from the procedure for 30 years after the individual turns 18.
Additionally, if a state requires medical practitioners to perform gender-transition procedures, that state shall be ineligible for federal funding from the Department of Health and Human Services.
Gender-transition procedures generally include certain surgeries or hormone therapies that change the body of an individual to correspond to a sex that is discordant with the individual's biological sex. They exclude, however, interventions to treat (1) individuals who either have ambiguous external biological sex characteristics or lack a normal sex chromosome structure, sex steroid hormone production, or sex steroid hormone action; (2) infections, injuries, diseases, or disorders caused by a gender-transition procedure; or (3) a physical disorder, injury, or illness that places an individual in imminent danger of death or impairment of a major bodily function.
Cosponsors 5
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jun 22, 2022 to Jul 11, 2022, with 4 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-OK | James Lankford | Original | Jun 22, 2022 |
| R-MO | Josh Hawley | Original | Jun 22, 2022 |
| R-FL | Marco Rubio | Original | Jun 22, 2022 |
| R-MT | Steve Daines | Original | Jun 22, 2022 |
| R-TX | Ted Cruz | Jul 11, 2022 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jun 22, 2022Introduced in Senate
- Jun 22, 2022Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 8171 | Protect Minors from Medical Malpractice Act of 2022 | Identical bill | Nov 1, 2022 |
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jun 22, 2022Introduced in Senate
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