{"bill":{"bill_key":"KS-HB2071-2025","title":"Enacting the help not harm act to restrict the use of state funds to promote gender transitioning, prohibit healthcare providers from providing gender transition whose gender identity is inconsistent with the child's sex, authorize a civil cause of action against healthcare providers for providing such treatments, require professional discipline against a healthcare provider who performs such treatment and prohibit professional liability insurance from covering damages for healthcare providers that provide gender transition treatment to children and adding violation of the act to the definition of unprofessional conduct for physicians.","side":"anti","state":"KS","year":2025,"status_cat":"failed","ls_status":"introduced","summary":"Enacting the help not harm act to restrict the use of state funds to promote gender transitioning, prohibit healthcare providers from providing gender transition whose gender iden…","notes":"The public funds and medicaid ban apply to GAC for minors and not to adults. Also blocks state employees such as teachers from supporting social transitioning. \"Help Not Harm\" is a model bill by Family Policy Alliance. Ver. 1.0 was likely the SAFE Act. Ver. 2.0 dates to the fall of 2021. However the language mirrors \"Do No Harm\"'s \"Just FACTs Act\"","types_str":"Gender Affirming Care Ban: Minors|Gender Affirming Care Ban: Public Funds|Gender Affirming Care Ban: Medicaid|Social Transition Ban|Gender Affirming Care Ban: JFA","sponsor_mix":"other","url":"https://legiscan.com/KS/bill/HB2071/2025","url_kind":"legiscan","source":"legiscan","special":0,"bluebook":{"cite":"H.B. 2071, 2025 Leg., Reg. Sess. (Kan. 2025), https://kslegislature.gov/li/b2025_26/measures/hb2071/.","short":"Kan. H.B. 2071."}},"same_key":[],"sponsors":[],"citations":[],"text":{"available":true,"credit":"Bill data and text from LegiScan (legiscan.com), licensed CC BY 4.0 and used in modified form. LegiScan does not endorse the Trans Data Initiative.","versions":[{"role":"intro","label":"As introduced","chars":22131,"pdf_href":"/bills/KS-HB2071-2025/pdf/0/intro"}]},"lineage":[{"template_id":"just-facts-2023","template_name":"JUST FACTs Act","tier":"derived","predates":false},{"template_id":"safe-2021","template_name":"SAFE Act (AR HB1570 as introduced)","tier":"shares_provisions","predates":false}],"family":{"cluster":"KS-HB2791-2024","n_bills":3,"n_states":1},"diffusion":{"matches":[{"other":"KS-HB2791-2024","other_title":"Enacting the forbidding abuse child transitions act, restricting use of state funds to promote gender transitioning, prohibiting healthcare professionals from treating children whose gender identity is inconsistent with the child's sex, authorizing a civil cause of action against healthcare professionals for providing such treatments, authorizing professional discipline against a physician who performs such treatment, prohibiting professional liability insurance from covering damages for healthcare providers that provide gender transition treatment to children and adding violation of the act to the definition of unprofessional conduct for physicians and nurses.","other_state":"KS","other_year":2024,"cross_state":false},{"other":"KS-SB63-2025","other_title":"Enacting the help not harm act, restricting use of state funds to promote gender transitioning, prohibiting healthcare providers from providing gender transition care to children whose gender identity is inconsistent with the child's sex, authorizing a civil cause of action against healthcare providers for providing such treatments, requiring professional discipline against a healthcare provider who performs such treatment, prohibiting professional liability insurance from covering damages for healthcare providers that provide gender transition treatment to children and adding violation of the act to the definition of unprofessional conduct for physicians.","other_state":"KS","other_year":2025,"cross_state":false},{"other":"MT-HB682-2025","other_title":"Generally revise laws regarding gender transition treatment","other_state":"MT","other_year":2025,"cross_state":true}]}}