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H.R. 4618: Jamie Reed Protecting Our Kids from Child Abuse Act

119th Congress · introduced 2025-07-22 · Health · Latest: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Education and Workforce, 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.

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Jamie Reed Protecting Our Kids from Child Abuse Act

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Jamie Reed Protecting Our Kids from Child Abuse Act This bill makes certain health care facilities and medical practitioners liable for any physical or mental harm caused by performing a gender-transition procedure on an individual younger than age 18. The liability extends for 30 years after the individual who received the procedure turns 18, and it applies to procedures occurring before, on, or after the bill's date of enactment. Specifically, the liability applies to pediatric gender clinics (medical facilities specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of gender discordance and dysphoria in minors) that provide gender-transition procedures; institutions of higher education and hospitals affiliated with those clinics, and medical practitioners who perform gender-transition procedures or administer health care related to the procedures at pediatric gender clinics. Medical practitioners and health care facilities may defend against a liability claim if they neither knew nor had reason to know the individual was a minor. Additionally, the bill prohibits federal funding for (1) gender-transition procedures performed on minors, (2) pediatric gender clinics, and (3) institutions of higher education or hospitals affiliated with those clinics. Under the bill, gender-transition procedures generally include surgeries or hormone therapies that change the body of an individual to correspond to a sex that is different than the individual's biological sex. These exclude, however, specified types of interventions, including those that address (1) ambiguous biological sex characteristics or abnormal sex chromosome structure or hormones; or (2) infections or other harms that result from a gender-transition procedure.

Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House), quoted unchanged (nonpartisan). Read the source.

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Sponsor: Rep. Steube, W. Gregory [R-FL-17] · 1 cosponsors

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• Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)
• Congress.gov
• Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-119hr4618.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/119/hr>

Record fed-us-cong119-hr4618 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong119 · updated 2026-11-03 by psicol fed-bills