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US SB209

Bill

Status

Introduced

1/23/2025

Primary Sponsor

Tom Cotton

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Origin

Senate

119th Congress

AI Summary

  • Creates a private right of action allowing individuals who received gender-transition procedures as minors to sue medical practitioners for declaratory relief, injunctive relief, compensatory damages, punitive damages, and attorney's fees

  • Establishes a 30-year statute of limitations from the date the individual turns 18 to file civil lawsuits for physical, psychological, emotional, or physiological harms resulting from such procedures

  • Prohibits federal law from requiring medical practitioners to perform gender-transition procedures, protecting their freedom of conscience

  • Strips all Department of Health and Human Services federal funding from any state that requires medical practitioners to perform gender-transition procedures

  • Defines gender-transition procedures as puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries performed to change the body to conform to a gender identity at odds with biological sex, with exceptions for intersex conditions and life-threatening emergencies

Legislative Description

Protecting Minors from Medical Malpractice Act of 2025

Health

Last Action

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

1/23/2025

Committee Referrals

Judiciary1/23/2025

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