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PUBLIC CHAPTER NO. 794
SENATE BILL NO. 2031
By Lowe, Jackson, Harshbarger, Seal, Yager, Bailey, Crowe, Hensley, Watson, Reeves,
Taylor, Walley, Briggs, Stevens, Johnson, Haile, Gardenhire, White, Rose, Hatcher, Massey,
Roberts,Bowling,Pody
Substituted for: House Bill No. 1872
By Zachary, Lamberth, Sherrell, Reneau, Todd, Maberry, Cochran, Reedy, Moody, McCalmon,
Crawford, Cepicky
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 29; Title 63 and Title 68, relative to private
causes of action.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:
SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 29, Chapter 26, is amended by adding the
following as a new section:
(a) As used in this section:
(1) "Coercion" means the same as defined in§ 39-11-106;
(2) "Healthcare professional" means an individual, establishment, or facility
licensed, registered, certified, or permitted to provide health care to individuals in this
state pursuant to title 63 or 68 and under the regulatory authority of:
(A) The department of health;
(8) An agency, board, council, or committee attached to the
department of health; or
(C) The health facilities commission;
(3) "Medical procedure":
(A) Means:
(i) Surgically removing,. modifying, altering, or entering into
tissues, cavities, or organs of a human being; or
(ii) Prescribing, administering, or dispensing any puberty
blocker or hormone to a human being; and
(8) Does not include therapies to treat a minor's congenital defect,
precocious puberty, disease, or physical injury;
(4) "Minor" means an individual under eighteen (18) years of age;
(5) "Person" means an individual eighteen (18) years of age or older; and
(6) "Sex" means a person's immutable characteristics of the reproductive
system that define the individual as male or female, as determined by anatomy and
genetics existing at the time of birth.
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(b) A person may bring a civil action to recover compensatory damages, punitive
damages, and reasonable attorney fees, court costs, and expenses against a healthcare
professional for an injury that is a result of a medical procedure, if:
(1) The medical procedure was for the purpose of enabling the person to
identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the person's sex or
treating purported discomfort or distress from a discordance between the person's
sex and asserted identity; and
(2) The person consented, or if the person was a minor at the time of the
medical procedure, the person's parent, guardian, or legal representative consented,
in whole or in part, due to an act of coercion by the healthcare professional.
(c) A civil action brought pursuant to subsection (b) must be brought, notwithstanding
§§ 28-3-104 and 29-26-116, no later than eighteen (18) years after the later of:
(1) The date the medical procedure occurred; or
(2) If the medical procedure occurs on or after the effective date of this act,
then notwithstanding §§ 28-3-104 and 29-26-116, an action commenced under this
section must be brought:
(A) Within thirty (30) years from the date the minor reaches eighteen
(18) years of age; or
(B) Within ten (10) years of the minor's death if the minor dies.
SECTION 2. If any provision of this act or its application to any person or circumstance is
held invalid, then the invalidity does not affect other provisions or applications of the act that can be
given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to that end, the provisions of this act are
severable.
SECTION 3. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it, and
applies to causes of action arising on or after that date.
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SENATE BILL NO. 2031
PASSED: April 6, 2026
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SPEAKER OF THB.SENATE
CAMEROR"SEXTON,SPEAKER
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
2-?JvJ. APPROVED this day of Apft \ 2026
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