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KS SB63 (2025)
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.
Anti-LGBTQ+
Summary
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…
- Jurisdiction
- Kansas
- Session
- 2025-2026 Regular Session
- Stage reported
- Passed / adopted
- First recorded action
- Latest action
- : Senate Motion to override veto prevailed; Yea: 31 Nay: 9
- Record retrieved
Bill types
As labelled in the project's tracker.
Gender Affirming Care Ban: MinorsGender Affirming Care Ban: Public FundsGender Affirming Care Ban: MedicaidSocial Transition Ban
Links
- As introduced (PDF, hosted here)
- As enrolled or final (PDF, hosted here)
- LegiScan record(opens another site)
- Official legislature page(opens another site)
- Introduced text (Jan 22, 2025) at kslegislature.gov(opens another site)PDF, external
- Amended text at kslegislature.gov(opens another site)PDF, external
- Enrolled text (Feb 5, 2025) at kslegislature.gov(opens another site)PDF, external
- Bill page on this site
Recorded actions
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| Senate | Senate Introduced | |
| Senate | Senate Referred to Committee on Public Health and Welfare | |
| Senate | Senate Hearing: Tuesday, January 28, 2025, 8:30 AM Room 142-S - CANCELED | |
| Senate | Senate Hearing: Tuesday, January 28, 2025, 8:30 AM Room 548-South | |
| Senate | Senate Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Public Health and Welfare | |
| Senate | Senate Motion to advance to EFA, subject to amendment, debate and roll call. | |
| Senate | Senate Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted | |
| Senate | Senate Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Senator Haley | |
| Senate | Senate Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Senator Haley was rejected | |
| Senate | Senate Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Senator Haley | |
| Senate | Senate Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Senator Haley was rejected | |
| Senate | Senate Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Senator Holscher | |
| Senate | Senate Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Senator Holscher was rejected | |
| Senate | Senate Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Senator Sykes | |
| Senate | Senate Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Senator Sykes was rejected | |
| Senate | Senate Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea: 32 Nay: 8 | |
| House | House Received and Introduced | |
| House | House Referred to Committee of the Whole | |
| House | House Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Representative Carr | |
| House | House Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Representative Carr was rejected Yea: 31 Nay: 85 | |
| House | House Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Representative Meyer | |
| House | House Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Representative Meyer was rejected Yea: 31 Nay: 84 | |
| House | House Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Representative Meyer | |
| House | House Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Representative Meyer was rejected Yea: 31 Nay: 85 | |
| House | House Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Representative Hoye | |
| House | House Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Representative Hoye was rejected Yea: 29 Nay: 83 | |
| House | House Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Representative McDonald | |
| House | House Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Representative McDonald was rejected Yea: 29 Nay: 84 | |
| House | House Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Representative Oropeza | |
| House | House Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Representative Oropeza was rejected Yea: 27 Nay: 80 | |
| House | House Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Representative Ruiz, S. | |
| House | House Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Representative Ruiz, S. was rejected Yea: 30 Nay: 86 | |
| House | House Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Representative Ruiz, S. | |
| House | House Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Representative Ruiz, S. was rejected | |
| House | House Committee of the Whole - Be passed | |
| House | House Final Action - Passed; Yea: 83 Nay: 35 | |
| Senate | Senate Enrolled and presented to Governor on Wednesday, February 5, 2025 | |
| Senate | Senate Vetoed by Governor; Returned to Senate on Tuesday, February 11, 2025 | |
| Senate | Senate Motion to override veto prevailed; Yea: 31 Nay: 9 | |
| House | House Motion to override veto prevailed; Yea: 85 Nay: 34 |
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