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HB2071: 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.

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Plain-Language Summary

This bill aims to restrict gender transition treatments for children. It prohibits healthcare providers from providing treatments that don't align with a child's biological sex and allows for legal action against providers who do.

Who This Affects

Children in Kansas who are considering gender transition treatments may be affected by this bill, as well as their families and healthcare providers.

Key Provisions

• Prohibits healthcare providers from providing gender transition treatments that don't align with a child's biological sex • Allows for legal action against healthcare providers who provide such treatments • Requires professional discipline against healthcare providers who perform these treatments

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Timeline

Introduced

Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Last Action

House Stricken from Calendar by Rule 1507

Feb 19, 2025

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