gender transition procedures; provider liability

SB1015 - 572R - S Ver

Senate Engrossed

gender transition
procedures; provider liability

State of Arizona

Senate

Fifty-seventh Legislature

Second Regular Session

2026

SENATE BILL 1015

AN
ACT

amending title 12, chapter 5.1, article
1, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 12-574; relating to health
care actions.

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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section
1.
1. Title
12, chapter 5.1, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding
section 12-574, to read:

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12-574.

Gender transition and detransition procedures; liability; waiver
of liability prohibited

A. A health care professional or
physician who provides or who has provided a minor with a gender transition
procedure is strictly and personally liable for all costs associated with
subsequent detransition procedures sought by the minor within twenty-five
years after the commencement of a gender transition procedure.

B. A person who undergoes a
detransition procedure may bring a civil action before the person reaches
twenty-six years of age against a health care professional or physician
described in subsection A of this section in a court of competent jurisdiction
for:

1. The real value of the costs of any
detransition procedure.

2. Any other appropriate relief.

3. Attorney fees and costs.

C. A health care professional or
physician who provides or who has provided a minor with a gender transition
procedure is strictly liable to that minor if the treatment or the aftereffects
of the treatment, including a subsequent detransition procedure, result in any
injury, including physical, psychological, emotional or physiological harms,
within twenty-five years after the date of the gender transition
procedure.

D. A person who suffers an injury
described in subsection C of this section or the person's legal guardian may
bring a civil action either within eight years after the person's eighteenth
birthday or within four years after the discovery by the injured party of both
the injury and the causal relationship between the treatment and the injury,
whichever is later, against the offending health care professional or physician
in a court of competent jurisdiction for:

1. Declaratory or injunctive relief.

2. Compensatory damages, including
pain and suffering, loss of reputation, loss of income and loss of consortium,
including the loss of the expectation of sharing parenthood.

3. Punitive damages.

4. Attorney fees and costs.

5. Any other appropriate relief.

E. A health care professional or
physician may not seek a contractual waiver of the liability prescribed in
subsection A, B or C of this section. Any waiver is contrary to the
public policy of this state and is null and void.

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