Kansas · 2025-2026 Regular Session · Bill

SB 244: House Substitute for SB 244 by Committee on Judiciary - Requiring the designation of multiple-occupancy private spaces in public buildings for use by only one sex and imposing criminal and civil penalties for violations, defining the term "gender" to mean biological sex at birth for purposes of statutory construction, directing the division of vehicles to invalidate and reissue driver's licenses when necessary to correct the gender identification on such licenses and directing the office of vital statistics to invalidate and reissue birth certificates when necessary to correct the sex identification on such certificates.

Vetoed Last action February 18, 2026: Motion to override veto prevailed; Yea 87, Nay 37, Absent 1

Plain-language summary

SB 244 is a bill introduced in the Kansas Senate on February 6, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: House Substitute for SB 244 by Committee on Judiciary - Requiring the designation of multiple-occupancy private spaces in public buildings for use by only one sex and imposing criminal and civil penalties for violations, defining the term "gender" to mean biological sex at birth for purposes of statutory construction, directing the division of vehicles to invalidate and reissue driver's licenses when necessary to correct the gender identification on such licenses and directing the office of vital statistics to invalidate and reissue birth certificates when necessary to correct the sex identification on such certificates. Primary sponsor: Committee on Judiciary. Most recent recorded action (February 18, 2026): Motion to override veto prevailed; Yea 87, Nay 37, Absent 1.

Sponsors

Primary sponsor: Committee on Judiciary.