Kansas - Session 2025-2026
Title: SB198 - Prohibiting abortion procedures except when necessary to save the life of the pregnant woman and providing a private cause of action for civil enforcement of violations of such prohibition.
AN ACT concerning abortion; prohibiting abortion procedures, except when necessary to save the life of the pregnant woman; providing a private cause of action for civil enforcement of violations of such prohibition; amending K.S.A. 65-2837, 65-6731, 65-67a01, 76-3308 and 79-32,195 and K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 60-1906, 65-2401, 79-32,182b, 79-32,261 and 79-3606 and repealing the existing sections; also repealing K.S.A. 65-4a02, 65-4a03, 65-4a04, 65-4a05, 65-4a06, 65-4a07, 65-4a08, 65-4a09, 65-4a10, 65-4a11, 65-4a12, 65-6702, 65-6703, 65-6704, 65-6705, 65-6707, 65-6709, 65-6710, 65-6711, 65-6712, 65-6714, 65-6715, 65-6721, 65-6722, 65-6724, 65-6725, 65-6726, 65-6741, 65-6743, 65-6744, 65-6745, 65-6746, 65-6747, 65-6748 and 65-6749 and K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 65-4a01, 65-6701, 65-6708, 65-6723 and 65-6742.
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| Date | Event | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-02-05 | Introduced | Bill introduced |
| 2025-02-06 | Status | in_committee |
| 2025-02-06 | Latest Action | Referred to Committee on Public Health and Welfare |
| Bill | Title | Status |
|---|---|---|
| HB 2727 | HB2727 - Providing for the plaintiff to elect to limit recovery in claims brought for violations of the woman's-right-to-know act and making the laws providing for medical malpractice screening inapplicable when such election is made. | enrolled |
| HB 2729 | HB2729 - Requiring the Kansas department of health and environment to provide forms and notices to physicians pursuant to the woman's-right-to know act. | enrolled |
| HB 2009 | HB2009 - Prohibiting abortion procedures except when necessary to save the life of the pregnant woman and providing a private cause of action for civil enforcement of such prohibition. | in_committee |
| HB 2010 | HB2010 - Prohibiting abortion procedures and creating the crimes of unlawful performance of an abortion and unlawful destruction of a fertilized embryo. | in_committee |
| HB 2635 | HB2635 - Enacting the pregnancy center autonomy and rights of expression act to protect the ability of private pregnancy centers to provide life-affirming care. | enrolled |
| HB 2789 | HB2789 - Enacting the abolish abortion Kansas act to make all abortions subject to criminal prosecution and removing certain exceptions to wrongful death cause of action for the death of an unborn child. | in_committee |
| HB 2171 | HB2171 - Creating the abolish abortion Kansas act to make all abortions subject to criminal prosecution for violation of Alexa's law and to remove certain exceptions to the cause of action for the wrongful death of an unborn child when such death is caused by an abortion. | in_committee |
| HB 2353 | HB2353 - Requiring that certain written information be provided to patients when a physician or healthcare provider administers or prescribes any medicine or drug for the purpose of inducing an abortion. | in_committee |