Kansas · 2025-2026
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.
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Summary AI-generated
Kansas SB 63, titled the Help Not Harm Act, restricts the use of state funds to promote gender transitioning and prohibits healthcare providers from offering gender transition care to children whose gender identity differs from their sex. The bill authorizes civil lawsuits against providers for such treatments, mandates professional discipline, excludes professional liability insurance coverage for related damages, and classifies violations as unprofessional conduct for physicians.
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Roll-call votes on this bill
| Motion / question | Chamber | Stage | Roll | Outcome | Yea | Nay | Other | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| House Motion to override veto prevailed - Yea: 84 Nay: 35 | lower | — | 1491886 | pass | 81 | 34 | 6 | Feb 18, 2025 | LegiScan API legiscan-1491886 LegiScan-ToS |
| Senate Motion to override veto prevailed - Yea: 31 Nay: 9 | upper | — | 1491885 | pass | 29 | 8 | 0 | Feb 18, 2025 | LegiScan API legiscan-1491885 LegiScan-ToS |
| House Final Action - Passed - Yea: 83 Nay: 35 | lower | — | 1478079 | pass | 80 | 34 | 7 | Jan 31, 2025 | LegiScan API legiscan-1478079 LegiScan-ToS |
| House Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Representative Meyer was rejected -… | lower | — | 1477504 | fail | 30 | 82 | 9 | Jan 30, 2025 | LegiScan API legiscan-1477504 LegiScan-ToS |
| House Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Representative Hoye was rejected -… | lower | — | 1477505 | fail | 28 | 80 | 13 | Jan 30, 2025 | LegiScan API legiscan-1477505 LegiScan-ToS |
| House Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Representative Oropeza was rejected… | lower | — | 1477507 | fail | 26 | 78 | 17 | Jan 30, 2025 | LegiScan API legiscan-1477507 LegiScan-ToS |
| House Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Representative Ruiz, S. was… | lower | — | 1477508 | fail | 29 | 83 | 9 | Jan 30, 2025 | LegiScan API legiscan-1477508 LegiScan-ToS |
| House Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Representative McDonald was… | lower | — | 1477506 | fail | 28 | 81 | 12 | Jan 30, 2025 | LegiScan API legiscan-1477506 LegiScan-ToS |
| House Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Representative Carr was rejected -… | lower | — | 1477100 | fail | 30 | 83 | 8 | Jan 30, 2025 | LegiScan API legiscan-1477100 LegiScan-ToS |
| House Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Representative Meyer was rejected -… | lower | — | 1477503 | fail | 30 | 81 | 10 | Jan 30, 2025 | LegiScan API legiscan-1477503 LegiScan-ToS |
| Senate Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 32 Nay: 8 | upper | — | 1476471 | pass | 30 | 7 | 0 | Jan 29, 2025 | LegiScan API legiscan-1476471 LegiScan-ToS |