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Protect Minors from Medical Malpractice Act of 2022
12/29/2022, 5:18 PM
Summary of Bill HR 8171
The key provisions of the bill include requiring healthcare providers to obtain informed consent from a minor's parent or legal guardian before performing certain medical procedures or treatments. This is intended to ensure that parents are fully aware of the risks and benefits of the proposed treatment before it is administered to their child.
Additionally, the bill establishes penalties for healthcare providers who engage in medical malpractice involving minors. This includes fines and potential loss of medical licenses for those found to be in violation of the law. Furthermore, the bill includes provisions for the establishment of a national database to track medical malpractice cases involving minors. This database will help to identify trends and patterns of malpractice, allowing for better oversight and regulation of healthcare providers. Overall, the Protect Minors from Medical Malpractice Act of 2022 aims to improve the safety and well-being of minors receiving medical care by holding healthcare providers accountable for their actions and ensuring that parents are fully informed and involved in the decision-making process.
Congressional Summary of HR 8171
Protect Minors from Medical Malpractice Act of 2022
This 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.
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.
