119th Congress · introduced in the House · Jul 22, 2025
Jamie Reed Protecting Our Kids from Child Abuse Act
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Latest action (Jul 22, 2025): 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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Congressional Research Service summary, version: Introduced in House (Jul 22, 2025)
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.
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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.
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.
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.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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Child health · Civil actions and liability · Drug therapy · Health facilities and institutions · Health personnel · Health programs administration and funding · Higher education · Prescription drugs · Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination · Surgery and anesthesia
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HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN · lobbying firm or registrant: HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN
2026 Q3 report (Jul 1, 2026 – Sep 30, 2026) · posted Oct 20, 2026 · issue area: Health Issues
$203,894
Spent on own lobbying
…ity Treatment and Care Act H.R. 3492: Protect Childrens Innocence Act H.R. 5483; S. 2907: Chloe Cole Act H.R. 4953: Gender-Affirming Child Abuse Prevention Act H.R. 4618: Jamie Reed Protecting Our Kid from Child Abuse Act S.2907 A bill to prohibit health care professionals, hospitals, or clinics from participating in the chemic…
Congress inferred from the report year; bill number and the title cited with it match Congress.gov records, and the bill predates the report. The amount is lobbying spending for every issue on this report, not this bill alone, and none of it is paid to any member of Congress. View filing
HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN · lobbying firm or registrant: HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN
2026 Q2 report (Apr 1, 2026 – Jun 30, 2026) · posted Jul 17, 2026 · issue area: Health Issues
$223,727
Spent on own lobbying
…ity Treatment and Care Act H.R. 3492: Protect Childrens Innocence Act H.R. 5483; S. 2907: Chloe Cole Act H.R. 4953: Gender-Affirming Child Abuse Prevention Act H.R. 4618: Jamie Reed Protecting Our Kid from Child Abuse Act S.2907 A bill to prohibit health care professionals, hospitals, or clinics from participating in the chemic…
Congress inferred from the report year; bill number and the title cited with it match Congress.gov records, and the bill predates the report. The amount is lobbying spending for every issue on this report, not this bill alone, and none of it is paid to any member of Congress. View filing
HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN · lobbying firm or registrant: HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN
2026 Q1 report (Jan 1, 2026 – Mar 31, 2026) · posted Apr 14, 2026 · issue area: Health Issues
$174,259
Spent on own lobbying
…ity Treatment and Care Act H.R. 3492: Protect Childrens Innocence Act H.R. 5483; S. 2907: Chloe Cole Act H.R. 4953: Gender-Affirming Child Abuse Prevention Act H.R. 4618: Jamie Reed Protecting Our Kid from Child Abuse Act S.2907 A bill to prohibit health care professionals, hospitals, or clinics from participating in the chemic…
Congress inferred from the report year; bill number and the title cited with it match Congress.gov records, and the bill predates the report. The amount is lobbying spending for every issue on this report, not this bill alone, and none of it is paid to any member of Congress. View filing
HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN · lobbying firm or registrant: HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN
2025 Q4 report (Oct 1, 2025 – Dec 31, 2025) · posted Jan 16, 2026 · issue area: Health Issues
$216,181
Spent on own lobbying
…to Fertility Treatment and Care Act H.R. 3492: Protect Childrens Innocence Act H.R. 5483: Chloe Cole Act H.R. 4953: Gender-Affirming Child Abuse Prevention Act H.R. 4618: Jamie Reed Protecting Our Kid from Child Abuse Act S.2907 A bill to prohibit health care professionals, hospitals, or clinics from participating in the chemic…
Congress inferred from the report year; bill number and the title cited with it match Congress.gov records, and the bill predates the report. The amount is lobbying spending for every issue on this report, not this bill alone, and none of it is paid to any member of Congress. View filing
HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN · lobbying firm or registrant: HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN
2025 Q3 report (Jul 1, 2025 – Sep 30, 2025) · posted Oct 20, 2025 · issue area: Health Issues
$155,588
Spent on own lobbying
…to Fertility Treatment and Care Act H.R. 3492: Protect Childrens Innocence Act H.R. 5483: Chloe Cole Act H.R. 4953: Gender-Affirming Child Abuse Prevention Act H.R. 4618: Jamie Reed Protecting Our Kid from Child Abuse Act S.2907 A bill to prohibit health care professionals, hospitals, or clinics from participating in the chemic…
Congress inferred from the report year; bill number and the title cited with it match Congress.gov records, and the bill predates the report. The amount is lobbying spending for every issue on this report, not this bill alone, and none of it is paid to any member of Congress. View filing