Federal law makes certain youth medical care a crime.
H.R. 3492 — Protect Children’s Innocence Act of 2025 · Filed by Marjorie Greene (R-GA) · 44 cosponsors · Introduced May 19, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
The bill makes it a federal crime to give youth certain drugs and surgeries. Doctors and parents can go to prison for up to 10 years. The law says these treatments count as harm. Doctors can still treat health problems and intersex cases. But they cannot use mental health as a reason.
Who it affects
Youth who want this care are affected. Doctors and parents who support it are affected. The law applies across all states.
One thing to notice
The law treats certain drugs and surgeries as crimes. Major doctor groups say these are safe for some teens.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
44 cosponsors: 44 Republicans.
- May 19, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- May 19, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary and Senate Committee on the Judiciary · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary”
- Jun 10, 2025 — Markup held in committee · Congress.gov: “Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held”
- Jun 10, 2025 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 17 - 10”
- Dec 17, 2025 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 216 - 211 (Roll no. 351).”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
5 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 7 reports from Dec 2025 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $1,203,908 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 97 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 78% of bills with any report.
- American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees — $690,000 in 1 report
- Human Rights Campaign — $439,908 in 2 reports
- Alliance Defending Freedom — $40,000 in 2 reports
- National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners — $24,000 in 1 report
- National Council of Jewish Women — $10,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- intersex — A person born with body parts that do not fit typical male or female.
- federal crime — A law broken under the power of the national government.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (8,702 characters) on Jul 10, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,522 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 22, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-21.
- H.R. 3492 on Congress.gov
- Actions and status history
- Cosponsors (44)
- Bill text the analysis read
- American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees — LDA filing, 2025 Q4
- Human Rights Campaign — LDA filing, 2026 Q2
- Alliance Defending Freedom — LDA filing, 2025 Q4
- Marjorie Greene — FEC candidate receipts, 2026 cycle
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