Protecting Minors from Medical Malpractice Act of 2025

Senate Bill

S. 209

119th Congress

Protecting Minors from Medical Malpractice Act of 2025

In Committee

Introduced:Jan 23, 2025

Primary Sponsor

Tom Cotton

Senator

Republican

AR

Cosponsors

3

Quick Stats

Policy Area

Health

Summary

This bill makes practitioners liable for 30 years after a minor turns 18 for harms from gender-transition procedures performed on those under 18. States requiring such procedures lose HHS federal funding. Procedures exclude treatments for certain medical conditions.

Latest Action

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

SponsorTom Cotton (R-AR)

Introduced1/23/2025

StatusRead twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

ChamberSenate

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Protecting Minors from Medical Malpractice Act of 2025

This bill makes practitioners liable for 30 years after a minor turns 18 for harms from gender-transition procedures performed on those under 18. States requiring such procedures lose HHS federal funding. Procedures exclude treatments for certain medical condi

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This bill makes practitioners liable for 30 years after a minor turns 18 for harms from gender-transition procedures performed on those under 18. States requiring such procedures lose HHS federal funding. Procedures exclude treatments for certain medical conditions.

Bill Number: 209
Sponsor: Tom Cotton (R-AR)
Introduced: 1/23/2025
Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Policy Area: Health

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Fact Sheet

Title: Protecting Minors from Medical Malpractice Act of 2025
Bill Number: 209
Sponsor: Tom Cotton (R-AR)
Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Introduced: 1/23/2025
Summary: This bill makes practitioners liable for 30 years after a minor turns 18 for harms from gender-transition procedures performed on those under 18. States requiring such procedures lose HHS federal funding. Procedures exclude treatments for certain medical conditions.

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Plain-English explanation of this bill

This bill makes practitioners liable for 30 years after a minor turns 18 for harms from gender-transition procedures performed on those under 18. States requiring such procedures lose HHS federal funding. Procedures exclude treatments for certain medical conditions.

Last updated: 1/5/2026

Official Summary

Congressional Research Service summary

Protecting Minors from Medical Malpractice Act of 2025This 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.Under the bill, 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.

Key Points

Main provisions of the bill

Creates 30-year liability for gender-transition procedures on minors
Cuts HHS funding to states requiring such procedures
Defines gender-transition procedures as surgeries and hormones
Excludes treatments for certain intersex conditions
Applies to individuals under 18 years old

How This Impacts Americans

Potential effects on citizens and communities

Physicians could face liability for decades after performing gender-transition procedures on minors. States mandating such care would lose federal health funding. Medical practitioners would face significant new legal risks.

Policy Areas

Primary Policy Area

Health

Related Subjects

Child health

Civil actions and liability

Health care quality

Health personnel

Health programs administration and funding

Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination

State and local government operations

Scope & Jurisdiction

Jurisdiction Level

federal

Congressional Session

119th Congress

Citation Reference

209, 119th Congress (2025). "Protecting Minors from Medical Malpractice Act of 2025". Source: Voter's Right Platform. https://votersright.org/bills/118-s-209