Trans Legislation Tracker

Kansas

We are tracking 18 anti-trans bills in Kansas in 2023. The legislation impacts 7 categories:

OTHER

EDUCATION

SPORTS

HEALTHCARE

PERFORMANCE

CIVIL RIGHTS

INCARCERATION

KS HB2100

OTHER
PASSED

Enacting the Kansas public investments and contracts protection act concerning environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria, prohibiting the state and political subdivisions from giving preferential treatment to or discriminating against companies based on such ESG criteria in procuring or letting contracts, requiring KPERS fiduciaries to act solely in the financial interest of the participants and beneficiaries of the system, indemnifying KPERS with respect to actions taken in compliance with such act, restricting state agencies from adopting ESG criteria or requiring any person or business to operate in accordance with such criteria and providing for enforcement of such act by the attorney general.

KS HB2138

EDUCATION
PASSED

Senate Substitute for HB 2138 by Committee on Education - Requiring school districts to provide separate accommodations for students of each biological sex on overnight school district sponsored trips, requiring contracts for exclusive broadcasts of state high school activities association activities to permit certain local broadcasts and providing for administrative review of resolutions to permanently close a school building of a school district.

KS HB2238

SPORTS
PASSED

Creating the fairness in women's sports act to require that female student athletic teams only include members who are biologically female.

KS HB2263

HEALTHCARE
ENGROSSED

Authorizing pharmacy technicians to administer certain vaccines, creating a civil cause of action against a physician and requiring revocation of a physician's license who performs a childhood gender reassignment service.

INTRODUCED

Enacting the Kansas protection of pensions and businesses against ideological interference act, relating to ideological boycotts involving environmental, social or governance standards, requiring KPERS to divest from and prohibiting state contracts or the deposit of state moneys with entities engaged in such boycotts as determined by the state treasurer and prohibiting discriminatory practices in the financial services industry based on such boycotts.

KS HB2427

EDUCATION
INTRODUCED

Requiring school districts to provide separate accommodations for students of each biological sex on overnight school sponsored trips.

ENGROSSED

Enacting the Kansas public investments and contracts protection act concerning environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria, prohibiting the state and political subdivisions from giving preferential treatment to or discriminating against companies based on such ESG criteria in procuring or letting contracts, requiring KPERS fiduciaries to act solely in the financial interest of the participants and beneficiaries of the system, restricting state agencies from adopting ESG criteria or requiring any person or business to operate in accordance with such criteria and providing for enforcement of such act by the attorney general.

KS SB12

HEALTHCARE
INTRODUCED

Enacting the Kansas child mutilation prevention act to criminalize performing gender reassignment surgery or prescription of hormone replacement therapy on certain persons and providing grounds for unprofessional conduct for healing arts licensees.

KS SB149

PERFORMANCE
INTRODUCED

Expanding the crime of promoting obscenity to minors to include drag performances.

KS SB180

CIVIL RIGHTS
PASSED

Establishing the women's bill of rights to provide a meaning of biological sex for purposes of statutory construction.

KS SB201

PERFORMANCE
INTRODUCED

Prohibiting the expenditure of state moneys for the production or performance of drag shows for which minors are the primary audience.

KS SB207

EDUCATION
INTRODUCED

Requiring policies for and establishing restrictions on school districts with regard to the use of an individual's pronouns if such pronouns differ from the individual's biological sex.

INTRODUCED

Enacting the Kansas protection of pensions and businesses against ideological interference act, relating to ideological boycotts involving environmental, social or governance standards, requiring KPERS to divest from and prohibiting state contracts or the deposit of state moneys with entities engaged in such boycotts as determined by the state treasurer and prohibiting discriminatory practices in the financial services industry based on such boycotts.

KS SB228

INCARCERATION
PASSED

Requiring the secretary for aging and disability services to reimburse counties for certain costs when a person is in a county jail awaiting examination, evaluation or treatment for competency, modernizing statutes concerning county jails, removing the requirement that every county shall have a jail, modifying procedures used when district courts commit prisoners to jail in another county and when counties contract with city jails to keep prisoners and requiring a medical examination before certain United States prisoners or city prisoners are taken into custody of a county jail.

KS SB233

HEALTHCARE
ENGROSSED

Creating a civil cause of action against a physician who performs childhood gender reassignment service and requiring revocation of a physician's license who performs childhood gender reassignment service.

KS SB255

EDUCATION
INTRODUCED

Requiring school districts to provide separate accommodations for students of each biological sex on overnight school sponsored trips.

KS SB26

HEALTHCARE
VETOED

Creating a civil cause of action against a physician who performs childhood gender reassignment service and requiring revocation of a physician's license who performs childhood gender reassignment service.

ENGROSSED

Enacting the Kansas public investments and contracts protection act concerning environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria, prohibiting the state and political subdivisions from giving preferential treatment to or discriminating against companies based on such ESG criteria in procuring or letting contracts, requiring KPERS fiduciaries to act solely in the financial interest of the participants and beneficiaries of the system, restricting state agencies from adopting ESG criteria or requiring any person or business to operate in accordance with such criteria, directing registered investment advisers to provide ESG criteria notice to clients and providing for enforcement of such act by the attorney general.