Kansas · 2025-2026 Regular Session · Bill

HB 2071: Enacting the help not harm act to restrict the use of state funds to promote gender transitioning, prohibit healthcare providers from providing gender transition whose gender identity is inconsistent with the child's sex, authorize a civil cause of action against healthcare providers for providing such treatments, require professional discipline against a healthcare provider who performs such treatment and prohibit 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.

In committee Last action February 20, 2025: Stricken from Calendar by Rule 1507

Plain-language summary

HB 2071 is a bill introduced in the Kansas House on January 23, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Enacting the help not harm act to restrict the use of state funds to promote gender transitioning, prohibit healthcare providers from providing gender transition whose gender identity is inconsistent with the child's sex, authorize a civil cause of action against healthcare providers for providing such treatments, require professional discipline against a healthcare provider who performs such treatment and prohibit 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. Primary sponsor: Committee on Health and Human Services. Most recent recorded action (February 20, 2025): Stricken from Calendar by Rule 1507.

Sponsors

Primary sponsor: Committee on Health and Human Services.