{"format":1,"id":"119-hr-3492","congress":119,"number":"H.R. 3492","kind":"bill","group":"bills","title":"Protect Children’s Innocence Act","title_source":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","official_title":"To amend section 116 of title 18, United States Code, with respect to genital and bodily mutilation and chemical castration of minors.","titles":[{"type":"Official Title as Introduced","title":"To amend section 116 of title 18, United States Code, with respect to genital and bodily mutilation and chemical castration of minors."},{"type":"Short Titles from RFS (Referred to Senate) bill text","title":"Protect Children’s Innocence Act"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","title":"Protect Children’s Innocence Act"},{"type":"Official Title from EH (Engrossed in House) bill text","title":"To amend section 116 of title 18, United States Code, with respect to genital and bodily mutilation and chemical castration of minors."},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Reported to House","title":"Protect Children’s Innocence Act"},{"type":"Display Title","title":"Protect Children’s Innocence Act"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Introduced","title":"Protect Children’s Innocence Act of 2025"}],"outcome":"passed_house","law_number":null,"introduced":"2025-05-19","chambers":{"house":{"status":"roll_call","date":"2025-12-17","vote":{"id":"119-2025-h351","question":"On Passage","title":"Protect Children’s Innocence Act","result":"Passed","yea":216,"nay":211,"present":0,"not_voting":6,"source":"https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/roll351.xml"}},"senate":{"status":"pending","date":null,"vote":null}},"president":{"status":"not_yet","date":null},"vice_president_tie_breaker":null,"latest_action":{"text":"Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.","date":"2025-12-18"},"nominees":null,"amendments":[],"other_votes":[{"chamber":"house","date":"2025-12-17","question":"On Motion to Recommit","title":"Protect Children’s Innocence Act","result":"Failed","yea":210,"nay":218,"present":0,"not_voting":5,"kind":"procedural","source":"https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/roll350.xml"}],"crs_summary":{"date":"2025-05-19","stage":"Introduced in House","blocks":[{"k":"h","t":"Protect Children’s Innocence Act of 2025"},{"k":"p","t":"This bill establishes federal criminal offenses for providing gender-affirming care to minors. The bill also changes the existing federal criminal offense that prohibits female genital mutilation (FGM) and related conduct."},{"k":"p","t":"Specifically, the bill makes it a federal crime to knowingly perform or attempt to perform procedures or provide medications (e.g., hormonal treatments) to a minor for the purpose of changing their body to correspond to a sex that differs from their biological sex. The bill provides exceptions for specified types of surgeries or procedures, including those for treating (1) individuals who have both ovarian and testicular tissue or abnormal sex chromosome structure or hormones, or (2) infections or other harms that result from a previous gender-transition procedure. A violation is punishable by a fine, a prison term of up to 10 years, or both. The bill prohibits the arrest or prosecution of an individual who undergoes gender-affirming procedures or medications."},{"k":"p","t":"Additionally, the bill makes changes to the existing federal criminal prohibition on performing FGM on a minor and related conduct. Among the changes, the bill broadens the scope of prohibited conduct to include the facilitation or consent to FGM by any person (currently, prohibited facilitation or consent applies only to a parent, guardian, or caretaker of the minor). The bill also prohibits the arrest or prosecution of an individual who undergoes FGM. The bill does not change the applicable criminal penalty of a fine, a prison term of up to 10 years, or both."}],"words":250},"summary":{"main_subject":{"text":"Rewrites section 116 of title 18, United States Code, to create federal criminal offenses for genital or bodily mutilation of a minor, chemical castration of a minor, and certain conduct related to female genital mutilation of a minor.","cites":[{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3492/text/eh#H42ED14DE0E824AC7956375F76983764E"}]},"core_areas":["Federal offense of genital or bodily mutilation of a minor","Federal offense of chemical castration of a minor","Offenses related to female genital mutilation of a minor","Medical and other exceptions to the offenses","Definitions of mutilation, chemical castration, biological sex and minor"],"what_it_does":[{"text":"Makes it a federal crime, in circumstances the text lists such as interstate or foreign travel or commerce, to knowingly perform or attempt genital or bodily mutilation on a minor, punishable by a fine, up to 10 years in prison, or both.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3492/text/eh#H42ED14DE0E824AC7956375F76983764E"}},{"text":"Makes it a federal crime to knowingly chemically castrate a minor, with the same penalty, and defines the term as giving medications, including puberty-blocking drugs, for the purpose of changing the body to correspond to a sex that differs from biological sex.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3492/text/eh#H42ED14DE0E824AC7956375F76983764E"}},{"text":"Defines genital or bodily mutilation to include female genital mutilation and listed surgeries, such as mastectomy and vaginoplasty, performed to change the body to correspond to a sex that differs from biological sex.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3492/text/eh#H42ED14DE0E824AC7956375F76983764E"}},{"text":"Makes it a federal crime to knowingly facilitate or consent to female genital mutilation of a minor, or to transport a minor for it, and bars a defense that it is required by religion, custom, tradition, ritual or standard practice.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3492/text/eh#H42ED14DE0E824AC7956375F76983764E"}},{"text":"Provides exceptions, including procedures necessary to a minor's health done by a licensed medical practitioner, which the text says do not include mental, behavioral or emotional distress or disorders, and listed cases such as precocious puberty.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3492/text/eh#H42ED14DE0E824AC7956375F76983764E"}},{"text":"Bars the arrest or prosecution under this section of any person who is chemically castrated or on whom genital or bodily mutilation is performed.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3492/text/eh#H42ED14DE0E824AC7956375F76983764E"}}],"unexpected":[{"category":"selective_carve_out","items":[{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3492/text/eh#H42ED14DE0E824AC7956375F76983764E"},"heading":"Genital and bodily mutilation of a minor; chemical castration of a minor","effect":"Rewrites 18 U.S.C. 116 to create the offenses, and in subsection (g)(2) exempts procedures or medications for listed groups of individuals from the offenses, such as those with both ovarian and testicular tissue or diagnosed with precocious puberty.","amount":null,"quote":"Genital or bodily mutilation or chemical castration is not a violation of this section if such genital or bodily mutilation or chemical castration is conducted with respect to any of the following individuals:"}]}],"version":{"type":"Engrossed in House","date":"2025-12-17","rule":"passed","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3492/text/eh"},"current":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","approved":"2026-10-12","approved_by":"checks"},"sources":{"congress_gov":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3492","text":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3492/text"},"card":{"image":"card/item/119-hr-3492.png","v":"2f308b77a835","alt":"Votes on Record. H.R. 3492, 119th Congress: Protect Children’s Innocence Act. House: 216 Yea, 211 Nay. Senate: not yet considered. Outcome: Passed House, 17 Dec 2025."}}