civil liability; gender reassignment surgery

Plain English Breakdown

The official status indicates a veto, meaning the law is not currently active unless an override occurred.

SB1094: Civil Liability for Gender Reassignment Surgery on Minors

This bill creates a rule allowing minors to sue doctors who perform irreversible gender reassignment surgery in violation of state law.

What This Bill Does

• Makes physicians liable to pay damages if they give irreversible gender reassignment surgery to a minor against the rules set in section 32-3230.
• States that parental consent is not a valid defense for doctors who break this rule.
• Allows successful plaintiffs to receive actual money damages, including compensation for mental anguish and exemplary damages, plus court costs and attorney fees.
• Sets a deadline of twenty-five years after the minor turns eighteen or four years after detransition treatment begins, whichever date comes later, to file a lawsuit.

Who It Names or Affects

• Physicians who perform irreversible gender reassignment surgery on minors
• Minors who receive this type of surgery in violation of section 32-3230

Terms To Know

Irreversible gender reassignment surgery

A medical procedure defined by the rules found in Arizona Revised Statutes section 32-3230.

Detransition treatment

Medical care or procedures a person undergoes to reverse previous gender reassignment steps, used here to calculate lawsuit deadlines.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill was vetoed by the governor on June 19, 2026, so it did not become law unless lawmakers later overrode that decision.
• The text relies on definitions and rules from section 32-3230 but does not include those specific details in this document.

Official Summary Text

SB1094 - civil liability; gender reassignment surgery

Current Bill Text

SB1094 - 572R - S Ver

Senate Engrossed

civil liability;
gender reassignment surgery

State of Arizona

Senate

Fifty-seventh Legislature

Second Regular Session

2026

SENATE BILL 1094

AN
ACT

amending title 12, chapter 6, article 12,
Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 12-723; relating to special
actions and proceedings by individual persons.

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

Section 1. Title 12, chapter 6, article 12,
Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 12-723, to read:

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12-723.

Irreversible gender reassignment surgery; civil liability;
statute of limitations; definitions

A. A physician who provides
irreversible gender reassignment surgery to a minor in violation of section 32-3230
is liable in a civil action to the minor for damages that result from the
surgery, including any damages that would not have otherwise occurred but for
the surgery.

B. It is not a defense to liability
under this section that the minor's parents consented to the irreversible
gender reassignment surgery.

C. A person who prevails under this
section shall be awarded actual damages, including damages for mental anguish
even if an injury other than mental anguish is not shown, exemplary damages,
court costs and reasonable attorney fees.

D. Notwithstanding any other law, an
action for the recovery of damages under this section shall be commenced not
later than twenty-five years after the minor turns eighteen years of age
or four years after the minor who had the irreversible gender reassignment
surgery undergoes detransition treatment, whichever is later.

E. For the purposes of this section:

1. "Irreversible gender
reassignment surgery" has the same meaning prescribed in section 32-3230.

2. "Physician" has the same
meaning prescribed in section 32-3230.

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