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Protecting Minors from Medical Malpractice Act of 2023

Introduced: March 2, 2023 Introduced by: Cotton, Tom Republican · Arkansas See on congress.gov
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It never became law before the 118th Congress (2023–2024) adjourned, and bills don't carry over to the next Congress. It would have to be reintroduced. You can still save it for reference, but it won't receive updates.
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Mar 2, 2023
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Protecting Minors from Medical Malpractice Act of 2023

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.

What's happening now March 2, 2023

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

 Related & companion bills 1
  • HR 1276 Related bill Protect Minors from Medical Malpractice Act of 2023
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 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 4
All 4 Republican 3
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Cruz, Ted
Texas · Mar 2, 2023
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Daines, Steve
Montana · Mar 2, 2023
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Lankford, James
Oklahoma · Mar 2, 2023
Mullin, Markwayne
· Mar 2, 2023
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 635: Protecting Minors from Medical Malpractice Act of 2023. 118th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/118-S-635/
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"S. 635: Protecting Minors from Medical Malpractice Act of 2023." 118th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/118-S-635/.
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S. 635, 118th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/118-S-635/.
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