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KS SB63
Bill
Status
2/18/2025
Primary Sponsor
Public Health and Welfare
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AI Summary
Summary of Kansas SB 63 - Help Not Harm Act
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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 use of state funds, state property, and Kansas Medicaid from providing, subsidizing, or covering gender transition treatments for minors
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Creates civil liability allowing affected individuals to sue healthcare providers for actual and punitive damages within 10 years of turning 18, with parents also granted a 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 violations
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Provides exceptions for treatment of verified disorders of sex development and allows providers already treating minors with hormones or puberty blockers to continue through December 31, 2025, with a tapering plan
Legislative Description
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.
Last Action
House Motion to override veto prevailed; Yea: 85 Nay: 34
2/18/2025