Protecting Minors from Medical Malpractice Act of 2025
Latest action · Jan 23, 2025 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.
- IntroducedJan 23, 2025
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Protecting Minors from Medical Malpractice Act of 2025
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.
Under the bill, 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 3
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Jan 23, 2025.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-IN | Jim Banks | Original | Jan 23, 2025 |
| R-OK | Markwayne Mullin | Original | Jan 23, 2025 |
| R-MT | Tim Sheehy | Original | Jan 23, 2025 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| Senate | Judiciary Committee | Referred Jan 23, 2025 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jan 23, 2025Introduced in Senate
- Jan 23, 2025Read 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 653 | Protect Minors from Medical Malpractice Act of 2025 | Related bill | Jan 23, 2025 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A bill to protect children from medical malpractice in the form of gender-transition procedures.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Protecting Minors from Medical Malpractice Act of 2025
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jan 23, 2025Introduced in Senate
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