Kansas · 2025-2026 Regular Session · Bill

SB 63: 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.

Vetoed Last action February 18, 2025: Motion to override veto prevailed; Yea 31, Nay 9

Plain-language summary

SB 63 is a bill introduced in the Kansas Senate on January 22, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: 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. Primary sponsor: Committee on Public Health and Welfare. Most recent recorded action (February 18, 2025): Motion to override veto prevailed; Yea 31, Nay 9.

Sponsors

Primary sponsor: Committee on Public Health and Welfare.