{"bill":{"bill_key":"KS-SB244-2026","title":"House Substitute for SB 244 by Committee on Judiciary - Requiring the designation of multiple-occupancy private spaces in public buildings for use by only one sex and imposing criminal and civil penalties for violations, defining the term \"gender\" to mean biological sex at birth for purposes of statutory construction, directing the division of vehicles to invalidate and reissue driver's licenses when necessary to correct the gender identification on such licenses and directing the office of vital statistics to invalidate and reissue birth certificates when necessary to correct the sex identification on such certificates.","side":"anti","state":"KS","year":2026,"status_cat":"enacted","ls_status":"passed","law_status":"Active","court_challenge":"Kansas State District Court Hearing on Preliminary Injunction scheduled for 2026-09-29","summary":"House Substitute for SB 244 by Committee on Judiciary - Requiring the designation of multiple-occupancy private spaces in public buildings for use by only one sex and imposing cri…","notes":"Bathroom ban govt. properties; Invalidates Driver's licenses for trans folks w/ gender markers differening from AGAB; Reverts them on record; Exchanges invalid licenses for ones with AGAB; Gutted and replaced with contents of HB2426 1/26/26; updated not immediately shown;","types_str":"End Legal Recognition|Gender Marker Change Ban|Gender Marker Revert|Trans Bathroom Ban: Public Properties","sponsor_mix":"other","final_margin_pct":70.2,"url":"https://legiscan.com/KS/bill/SB244/2025","url_kind":"legiscan","source":"legiscan","special":0,"bluebook":{"cite":"S.B. 244, 2026 Leg., Reg. Sess. (Kan. 2026) (enacted), https://kslegislature.gov/li/b2025_26/measures/sb244/.","short":"Kan. S.B. 244."}},"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":14572,"pdf_href":"/bills/KS-SB244-2026/pdf/0/intro"}]},"litigation":{"court_challenge":"Kansas State District Court Hearing on Preliminary Injunction scheduled for 2026-09-29","law_status":"Active"},"testimony":[{"hid":"ks_housecommitteeonjudiciar_2026-01-27_committee","date":"2026-01-27","state":"KS","chamber":"House","committee":"House Committee on Judiciary","proceeding":"committee","basis":"Matched by committee and date only","strong":false},{"hid":"ks_housecommitteeonjudiciar_2025-03-05_committee","date":"2025-03-05","state":"KS","chamber":"House","committee":"House Committee on Judiciary","proceeding":"committee","basis":"Named in the recording","strong":true},{"hid":"ks_housecommitteeonjudiciar_2025-02-26_committee","date":"2025-02-26","state":"KS","chamber":"House","committee":"House Committee on Judiciary","proceeding":"committee","basis":"Matched by committee and date only","strong":false},{"hid":"ks_senatecommitteeonjudicia_2025-02-17_committee","date":"2025-02-17","state":"KS","chamber":"Senate","committee":"Senate Committee on Judiciary","proceeding":"committee","basis":"Matched by committee and date only","strong":false},{"hid":"ks_senatecommitteeonjudicia_2025-02-13_committee","date":"2025-02-13","state":"KS","chamber":"Senate","committee":"Senate Committee on Judiciary","proceeding":"committee","basis":"Named in the recording","strong":true},{"hid":"ks_senatecommitteeonjudicia_2025-02-06_committee","date":"2025-02-06","state":"KS","chamber":"Senate","committee":"Senate Committee on Judiciary","proceeding":"committee","basis":"Matched by committee and date only","strong":false}]}