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KS HB2071
Bill
Status
1/23/2025
Primary Sponsor
Health and Human Services
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AI Summary
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Prohibits healthcare providers from performing gender transition surgeries or prescribing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to individuals under 18 whose gender identity differs from their biological sex
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Bans state funds, Kansas Medicaid, and state facilities from being used to provide, subsidize, or promote gender transition treatments for minors
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Allows children who received prohibited treatments to sue healthcare providers for actual and punitive damages within 10 years of turning 18, and grants parents a separate private cause of action
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Requires mandatory license revocation for healthcare providers who violate the act and prohibits professional liability insurance from covering damages related to these treatments
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Permits providers already treating minors with hormones or puberty blockers to continue until December 31, 2025, if they document that immediate termination would cause harm and create a tapering plan
Legislative Description
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.
Last Action
House Stricken from Calendar by Rule 1507
2/20/2025