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SB 19

Kansas - Session 2025-2026

Senate in_committee 2025-02-04
Environment / Climate Healthcare
Bill Details

Title: SB19 - Enacting the conscientious right to refuse act to prohibit discrimination against individuals who refuse medical care and creating a civil cause of action based on such discrimination and revoking the authority of the secretary of health and environment to quarantine individuals and impose associated penalties.

Summary

AN ACT concerning public health; relating to medical care; enacting the conscientious right to refuse act; prohibiting discrimination against individuals who refuse certain medical interventions and creating a civil cause of action against entities who discriminate based upon such medical care refusal; revoking the authority of the secretary of health and environment to order individuals to isolate or quarantine and impose penalties for violations thereof; repealing K.S.A. 65-126, 65-127, 65-129 and 65-129c.

Sponsor
Committee on Public Health
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Actions Timeline
Date Event Detail
2025-01-16 Introduced Bill introduced
2025-02-04 Status in_committee
2025-02-04 Latest Action Hearing: Wednesday, February 5, 2025, 8:30 AM Room 159-South
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