Enacting the forbidding abuse child transitions act, restricting use of state funds to promote gender transitioning, prohibiting healthcare professionals from treating children whose gender identity is inconsistent with the child's sex, authorizing a civil cause of action against healthcare professionals for providing such treatments, authorizing professional discipline against a physician 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 and nurses.
2023-2024 Regular Session
A recipient of state funds shall not use such funds to provide or subsidize medication or surgery as a treatment for a child's perception of gender or sex that is inconsistent with such child's sex.
(b) An individual or entity that receives state funds to pay for or subsidize the treatment of children for psychological conditions, including gender dysphoria, shall not promote or advocate medication or surgery as a treatment for a child whose perceived gender or perceived sex is inconsistent with such child's sex.
(c) The Kansas program of medical assistance and its managed care organizations shall not reimburse or provide coverage for medication or surgery as a treatment for a child whose perceived gender or perceived sex is inconsistent with such child's sex.
(d) Except to the extent required by the first amendment to the United States constitution, a state property, facility or building shall not be used to promote or advocate the use of social transitioning, medication or surgery as a treatment for a child whose perceived gender or perceived sex is inconsistent with such child's sex.
(e) A state property, facility or building shall not be used to prescribe, administer or dispense medication or perform surgery as a treatment for a child whose perceived gender or perceived sex is inconsistent with such child's sex.
(f) A state employee whose official duties include the care of children shall not, while engaged in those official duties, provide or promote the use of social transitioning, medication, or surgery as a treatment for a child whose perceived gender or perceived sex is inconsistent with such child's sex.
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| date | time | type | location | description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-02-29 | 13:30 | Hearing | Room 112-N | House Health and Human Services Hearing |
History
| Date | Action |
|---|---|
| 2024-04-30 | House Died in Committee |
| 2024-02-29 | House Hearing: Thursday, February 29, 2024, 1:30 PM Room 112-N |
| 2024-02-14 | House Withdrawn from Committee on Appropriations; Rereferred to Committee on Health and Human Services |
| 2024-02-13 | House Withdrawn from Committee on Health and Human Services; Referred to Committee on Appropriations |
| 2024-02-09 | House Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services |
| 2024-02-09 | House Introduced |