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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 Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted
  6. Vetoed

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

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.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Sponsors

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Committee on Public Health and WelfarePrimary sponsorNot applicable (committee)——

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Motion to override veto prevailed; Yea 31, Nay 9
  2. Motion to override veto prevailed; Yea 85, Nay 34, Absent 6
  3. Vetoed by Governor; Returned to Senate on Tuesday, February 11, 2025
  4. Enrolled and presented to Governor on Wednesday, February 5, 2025
  5. Final Action - Passed; Yea 83, Nay 35, Absent 7
  6. Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Rep. Ford Carr
  7. Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Rep. Ford Carr was rejected; Yea 31, Nay 85, Absent 9
  8. Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Rep. Heather Meyer
  9. Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Rep. Heather Meyer was rejected; Yea 31, Nay 84, Absent 10
  10. Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Rep. Heather Meyer
  11. Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Rep. Heather Meyer was rejected; Yea 31, Nay 85, Absent 9
  12. Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Rep. Jo Ella Hoye

Showing 12 most recent of 38 actions. Full history

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source