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AZ SB1586

Bill

Status

Vetoed

5/12/2025

Primary Sponsor

Janae Shamp

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Origin

Senate

Fifty-seventh Legislature - First Regular Session (2025)

AI Summary

  • Establishes strict personal liability for health care professionals and physicians who provide gender transition procedures to minors for all costs of subsequent detransition procedures within 25 years.

  • Allows individuals who undergo detransition procedures to sue providers before age 26 for the real value of detransition procedure costs, attorney fees, and other appropriate relief.

  • Imposes strict liability on providers for any injury (physical, psychological, emotional, or physiological) resulting from gender transition treatment or its aftereffects within 25 years of the procedure.

  • Permits civil actions for injuries to be brought within 8 years after the person's eighteenth birthday or 4 years after discovery of the injury and its causal relationship to treatment, whichever is later, allowing claims for declaratory relief, compensatory damages including pain and suffering, punitive damages, and attorney fees.

  • Prohibits health care professionals and physicians from requiring contractual waivers of liability related to gender transition procedures, declaring any such waivers null and void as contrary to public policy.

Legislative Description

Gender transition procedures; provider liability

Prohibited

Last Action

Governor Vetoed

5/12/2025

Committee Referrals

Rules3/12/2025
Government3/5/2025
Rules2/10/2025
Regulatory Affairs and Government Efficiency2/10/2025

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