SB63

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.

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Kansas SB63 restricts state funds from promoting gender transitioning in children and prohibits healthcare providers from offering certain gender.

Kansas SB63, known as the Help Not Harm Act, restricts the use of state funds to promote gender transitioning in children. It prohibits healthcare providers from offering treatments such as puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and gender-affirming surgeries to minors whose gender identity does not align with their biological sex. The act also authorizes a civil cause of action against healthcare providers who provide these treatments, mandates professional discipline for such providers, and prohibits professional liability insurance from covering damages for these treatments.

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Sponsors

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Roll Call Votes

84 Yea

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35 Nay

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6 Absent

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Calendar

Jan 28, 2025

8:30 AM

Senate Public Health and Welfare Hearing

Jan 28, 2025

8:30 AM

Senate Public Health and Welfare Hearing

History

Feb 18, 2025

Senate

Senate Motion to override veto prevailed; Yea: 31 Nay: 9

Feb 18, 2025

House

House Motion to override veto prevailed; Yea: 85 Nay: 34

Feb 13, 2025

Senate

Senate Vetoed by Governor; Returned to Senate on Tuesday, February 11, 2025