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SB1015 - 572R - Senate Fact Sheet
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ARIZONA STATE SENATE
Fifty-Seventh
Legislature, Second Regular Session
FACT SHEET FOR
S.B. 1015
gender
transition procedures; provider liability
Purpose
Subjects health care professionals and physicians who provide gender
transition procedures to strict personal liability for all costs associated
with subsequent detransition procedures.
Background
A medical malpractice action for injury or death may be brought against a
licensed health care provider based on such provider's alleged negligence,
misconduct, errors or omissions, or breach of contract in the rendering of
health care, medical services, nursing services or other health-related
services or for the rendering of such health care, medical services, nursing
services or other health-related services, without express or implied consent
(A.R.S. ��
12-561
and
12-562
).
Physicians may not provide irreversible gender reassignment surgery to
any individual who is under 18 years of age. Irreversible gender reassignment
surgery is a medical procedure performed for the purpose of assisting an
individual with a gender transition and includes any of the following: 1)
penectomy, orchiectomy, vaginoplasty, clitoroplasty or vulvoplasty for
biologically male patients or hysterectomy or ovariectomy for biologically
female patients;
2) metoidioplasty, phalloplasty, vaginectomy, scrotoplasty or implantation of
erection or testicular protheses for biologically female patients; and 3)
augmentation mammoplasty for biologically male patients and subcutaneous
mastectomy for female patients (
A.R.S.
� 32-3230
).
There is no anticipated fiscal impact to the state General Fund
associated with this legislation.
Provisions
1.
Subjects
health care professionals and physicians who provide gender transition
procedures to strict personal liability for all costs associated with
subsequent detransition procedures that are sought by a minor within 25 years
after the commencement of a gender transition procedure.
2.
Allows
a person who undergoes a detransition procedure, before turning 26 years of
age, to bring a civil action against a health care professional or physician
who provided the gender transition procedure in a court of competent
jurisdiction for:
a)
the real value of the costs of any detransition procedure;
b)
any other appropriate relief; and
c)
attorney fees and costs.
3.
States that 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 aftereffects of the treatment, including a
subsequent detransition procedure, result in any injury, including physical,
psychological, emotional or physiological harms, within 25 years after the date
of the gender transition procedure.
4.
Allows a person injured by a gender transition or detransition procedure,
or the person's legal guardian, to bring a civil action against an offending
health care professional or physician within the eight years after the person's
18th birthday, or within four years after the discovery of both the injury and
the causal relationship between the treatment and the injury, whichever is
later.
5.
Allows
an injured party in a civil action to seek:
a)
declaratory or injunctive relief;
b)
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;
c)
punitive damages;
d)
attorney fees and costs; and
e)
any
other appropriate relief.
6.
Prohibits a health care professional or physician from seeking a
contractual waiver of the liability for gender transition or detransition
procedures.
7.
Deems any waiver that is contrary to the public policy of Arizona as null
and void.
8.
Becomes effective on the general effective date.
Prepared by Senate Research
January 16, 2026
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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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