118th Congress Health
H.R. 1276: Protect Minors from Medical Malpractice Act of 2023
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Summary
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.
Written by the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress.
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Amendments
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Cosponsors
- Brian Babin R-TXOriginal
- Glenn Grothman R-WIOriginal
- Mike Johnson R-LAOriginal
- Ralph Norman R-SCOriginal
- Diana Harshbarger R-TN
- Guy Reschenthaler R-PA
- Clay Higgins R-LA
- Bill Posey R-FL
- Mary Miller R-IL
- Josh Brecheen R-OK
- Erin Houchin R-IN
- Debbie Lesko R-AZ
- Rich McCormick R-GA
- Christopher Smith R-NJ
- Alexander Mooney R-WV
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History
- Introduced in the House by Jim Banks.
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- Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Referred to the Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs .
- Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Introduced in House
- Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Education and the Workforce, Natural Resources, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.