SB 63

Kansas Senate bill in Session 2025-2026.

Status: enacted. Latest action: February 18, 2025.

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.

Bill ID KS-2025-2026-SB-63
Session 2025-2026
Status enacted
Committee Public Health and Welfare
Senate enacted 2025-02-18
Healthcare Insurance / Consumer Protection LGBTQ / Gender Policy
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 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.

Sponsor
Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare
Official Source Back to Bills
Actions Timeline
Date Event Detail
2025-01-22 Introduced Bill introduced
2025-02-18 Status enacted
2025-02-18 Latest Action Motion to override veto prevailed; Yea 85, Nay 34, Absent 6
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