HR 653 · in committee · significant
Protect Minors from Medical Malpractice Act of 2025
- healthcare
What this bill does
- Doctors who perform gender-transition procedures on minors become liable for resulting harms for 30 years after the patient turns 18.
- States that require gender-transition procedures for minors lose federal health department funding.
- The bill defines gender-transition procedures as surgeries or hormone therapies but excludes treatments for intersex conditions and medical emergencies.
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Community Threads
Started by Cosponsor
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How would the 30-year liability window affect doctors' willingness to offer hormone therapies to transgender minors, and what alternatives might patients face?
- 02
What evidence exists about long-term outcomes of gender-transition procedures in minors to support or challenge the need for extended liability provisions?
- 03
Which states currently require gender-transition procedures for minors, and how would loss of federal health department funding impact their broader healthcare systems?
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Sponsor · R-TX-36
Brian Babin
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Introduced 2025-01-23
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Legislative timeline
2025-01-23 · house · IntroReferral
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Education and 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.
2025-01-23 · house · IntroReferral
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Education and 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.
2025-01-23 · house · IntroReferral
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Education and 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.
2025-01-23 · house · IntroReferral
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Education and 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.
2025-01-23 · house · IntroReferral
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Education and 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.
2025-01-23 · IntroReferral
Introduced in House
2025-01-23 · IntroReferral
Introduced in House
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