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Protect Children’s Innocence Act
1/4/2025, 11:12 AM
Summary of Bill HR 1399
The bill proposes several measures to achieve this goal. One key provision is the requirement for internet service providers to offer a family-friendly internet option that filters out explicit and adult content. This would give parents more control over what their children can access online.
Additionally, the bill calls for increased penalties for individuals who distribute or produce child pornography. It also aims to improve coordination between law enforcement agencies to better track and prosecute those who engage in these illegal activities. Overall, the Protect Children's Innocence Act seeks to create a safer online environment for children and hold accountable those who seek to exploit them. It is currently being debated in Congress, with supporters arguing that it is necessary to protect the most vulnerable members of society.
Congressional Summary of HR 1399
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.
