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H.R. 8731: Protect Children’s Innocence Act

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H.R. 8731: Protect Children’s Innocence Act

117th Congress · introduced 2022-08-19 · Health · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2022-08-19 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Greene, Marjorie Taylor [R-GA-14] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

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Official title

Protect Children’s Innocence Act

Plain summary

Protect Children's Innocence Act This bill places restrictions on the provision of gender affirming care. Gender affirming care includes performing surgery, administering medication, or performing other procedures for the purpose of changing the body of an individual to correspond to a sex that differs from the individual's biological sex. Specifically, the bill makes it a felony to perform any gender affirming care on a minor and it permits a minor on whom such care is performed to bring a civil action against each individual who provided the care. Additionally, the bill prohibits the use of federal funds for gender affirming care or for health insurance that covers such care. Such care may not be provided in a federal health care facility or by a federal employee. The bill also prohibits qualified health plans from including coverage for gender affirming care. Further, plans that include coverage for such care are not eligible for federal subsidies. Finally, the bill prohibits institutions of higher education from offering instruction in gender affirming care. It also makes any non-U.S. national ( alien under federal law) who performs gender affirming care on a minor deportable and inadmissible to the United States. The restrictions under this bill do not apply to the provision of care under certain circumstances such as when an individual does not have normal sex chromosome structure, sex steroid hormone production, or sex steroid hormone action.

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Official text

Protect Children’s Innocence Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Greene, Marjorie Taylor [R-GA-14] · 49 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Mary E. Miller (R-IL), Ralph Norman (R-SC), Clay Higgins (R-LA), Burgess Owens (R-UT), Claudia Tenney (R-NY), Andrew S. Clyde (R-GA), Diana Harshbarger (R-TN), Lance Gooden (R-TX), Lauren Boebert (R-CO), Paul A. Gosar (R-AZ), Jim Banks (R-IN), Ronny Jackson (R-TX), Glenn Grothman (R-WI), Troy E. Nehls (R-TX), Jefferson Van Drew (R-NJ), W. Gregory Steube (R-FL), Brian Babin (R-TX), Randy K. Weber, Sr. (R-TX), Daniel Meuser (R-PA), Barry Moore (R-AL), Byron Donalds (R-FL), Charles J. "Chuck" Fleischmann (R-TN), Barry Loudermilk (R-GA), Kevin Hern (R-OK), Tracey Mann (R-KS), Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA), James Comer (R-KY), William R. Timmons IV (R-SC), Roger Williams (R-TX), Andy Harris (R-MD), Michelle Fischbach (R-MN), Mike Johnson (R-LA), Rick W. Allen (R-GA), David Rouzer (R-NC), Ben Cline (R-VA), Michael Cloud (R-TX)

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong117-hr8731 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong117 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong117