KS-SB63-2025
Kansas · SB 63 · 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.
Court challenge: Kansas State District Court
- Bill key
- KS-SB63-2025
- State
- Kansas
- Session
- 2025
- Introduced
- Last recorded status
- passed
- Law status
- Temporary Injunction 2026-05-15
- Citation (Bluebook)
- S.B. 63, 2025 Leg., Reg. Sess. (Kan. 2025) (enacted), https://kslegislature.gov/li/b2025_26/measures/sb63/.
- Short citation
- Kan. S.B. 63.
- Topics
- Tags
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…
Curator 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"
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Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare
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Model-bill lineage
Model-bill templates this bill matches
- JUST FACTs Act Derived
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