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Protecting Minors from Medical Malpractice Act of 2022

USA117th CongressS-4457| Senate 
| Updated: 6/22/2022
Tom Cotton

Tom Cotton

Republican Senator

Arkansas

Cosponsors (5)
Ted Cruz (Republican)James Lankford (Republican)Josh Hawley (Republican)Marco Rubio (Republican)Steve Daines (Republican)

Judiciary Committee

  • Introduced
  • In Committee
  • On Floor
  • Passed Chamber
  • Enacted
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.
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Timeline
Jun 22, 2022
Introduced in Senate
Jun 22, 2022
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
  • June 22, 2022
    Introduced in Senate


  • June 22, 2022
    Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Health

Related Bills

  • HR 117-8171: Protect Minors from Medical Malpractice Act of 2022
Child healthCivil actions and liabilityHealth care qualityHealth personnelHealth programs administration and fundingSex, gender, sexual orientation discriminationState and local government operations

Protecting Minors from Medical Malpractice Act of 2022

USA117th CongressS-4457| Senate 
| Updated: 6/22/2022
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.
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Timeline
Jun 22, 2022
Introduced in Senate
Jun 22, 2022
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
  • June 22, 2022
    Introduced in Senate


  • June 22, 2022
    Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Tom Cotton

Tom Cotton

Republican Senator

Arkansas

Cosponsors (5)
Ted Cruz (Republican)James Lankford (Republican)Josh Hawley (Republican)Marco Rubio (Republican)Steve Daines (Republican)

Judiciary Committee

Health

Related Bills

  • HR 117-8171: Protect Minors from Medical Malpractice Act of 2022
  • Introduced
  • In Committee
  • On Floor
  • Passed Chamber
  • Enacted
Child healthCivil actions and liabilityHealth care qualityHealth personnelHealth programs administration and fundingSex, gender, sexual orientation discriminationState and local government operations