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PREFILED DEC 09 2025 REFERENCE TITLE: gender transition procedures; provider liability State of Arizona Senate Fifty-seventh Legislature Second Regular Session 2026 SB 1015 Introduced by Senator Shamp AN ACT amending title 12, chapter 5.1, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 12-574; relating to health care actions. (TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE) Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona: Section 1. Title 12, chapter 5.1, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 12-574, to read: START_STATUTE12-574. 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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