Protecting Children From Experimentation Act of 2021
Summary
Protecting Children From Experimentation Act of 2021 This bill establishes a new criminal offense for performing gender reassignment medical interventions on minors. It also provides that a minor who receives such an intervention may bring a civil action against each person who performed that intervention. The bill defines these interventions as certain surgeries or the use of hormones to change the body of an individual to correspond to a sex that is discordant with the individual's biological sex. It excludes, however, interventions in cases where an individual has ambiguous external biological sex characteristics or where a physician has determined that an individual does not have normal sex chromosome structure, sex steroid hormone production, or sex steroid hormone action. An individual who performs these interventions on a minor is subject to criminal penalties—a fine, a prison term of up to five years, or both. A minor who receives these medical interventions may not be arrested or prosecuted for an offense under this bill.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2021
Committee Review
Floor Vote
President
Introduced Mar 16, 2021
Last action May 18, 2021
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Full legislative history
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Total actions
3
Key actions
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Committee
2
May 18, 2021
Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
lower
Mar 16, 2021
Committee
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
lower
Mar 16, 2021
Introduced
Introduced in House
lower
1 primary · 21 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Doug LaMalfa
RRepublican
Co
Brian Babin
RRepublican
Co
Chip Roy
RRepublican
Co
Debbie Lesko
RRepublican
Co
Eric A. "Rick" Crawford
RRepublican
Co
Glenn Grothman
RRepublican
Co
Jeff Duncan
RRepublican
Co
Jim Banks
RRepublican
Co
Jim Jordan
RRepublican
Co
Jody B. Hice
RRepublican
Co
Lauren Boebert
RRepublican
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