# Kansas 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. Kansas 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., is a 2025–2026 Regular Session Senate bill sponsored by Committee on Public Health and Welfare; status became law, last action 2025-02-18 (Motion to override veto prevailed; Yea 31, Nay 9) (as of 2026-10-19). - Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-SB63-2025-2026 - As of: 2026-10-19 - Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts. ## Facts - Bill: Kansas SB 63 - State: Kansas - Session: 2025–2026 Regular Session - Title: 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. - Status: became law - Chamber: Senate - Introduced: 2025-01-22 - Last action: 2025-02-18, Motion to override veto prevailed; Yea 31, Nay 9 - Sponsor: Committee on Public Health and Welfare - Cosponsors: 0 - Subjects: senate committee on public health and welfare - Touches household money: no - Roll calls: 21 (846 yes, 1,338 no in all) - Economic provisions PRIA read: 5 ## Summary No summary available. ## Bill overview: provisions PRIA read - Families can sue over banned treatments: benefit, medium. Parents can sue providers who give their children treatment in violation of the ban. People treated as minors can also sue, filing within 10 years after turning 18—by age 28. Providers face strict liability for physical, psychological, emotional, or physiological harm occurring during that 10-year… - Families lose publicly funded transition care: cost, high. Kansas Medicaid, including its managed care plans, cannot cover or reimburse the listed gender-transition medications or surgeries for minors. Recipients of Kansas state funds cannot use that money to provide or subsidize this care. Providers receiving state funds for children's psychological care… - Kansas bans transition treatments for minors: cost, high. The law takes effect upon publication in the Kansas Register. Providers cannot knowingly give patients under 18 the listed surgeries, hormone doses, or puberty blockers for gender-related distress. Exceptions cover specified, medically verified disorders of sex development and care for conditions c… - State facilities limit minors' transition support: cost, high. Kansas state property and facilities cannot be used to provide the listed gender-transition medications or surgeries to minors. They also cannot be used to promote those treatments or social transitioning, such as nonmedical changes in presentation. The promotion ban has an exception where the Firs… - Providers face license loss, uninsured damages: cost, low. Kansas licensing authorities must revoke a healthcare provider's license for violating the treatment ban. The law also lists Help Not Harm Act violations as unprofessional conduct for physicians. Professional liability insurance cannot cover damages assessed against providers for giving children tr… ## Sponsors and cosponsors - Sponsor: Committee on Public Health and Welfare ## Roll call votes | Date | Chamber | Motion | Result | Yes | No | Other | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 2026-04-23 | Senate | Yea: 31 Nay: 85 | fail | 31 | 85 | | | 2026-04-23 | Senate | Yea: 31 Nay: 85 | fail | 31 | 85 | | | 2026-04-23 | Senate | Yea: 29 Nay: 84 | fail | 29 | 84 | | | 2026-04-23 | Senate | Yea: 29 Nay: 83 | fail | 29 | 83 | | | 2026-04-23 | Senate | Yea: 31 Nay: 84 | fail | 31 | 84 | | | 2026-04-23 | Senate | Yea: 83 Nay: 35 | pass | 83 | 35 | | | 2026-04-23 | Senate | Yea: 30 Nay: 86 | fail | 30 | 86 | | | 2026-04-23 | Senate | Yea: 27 Nay: 80 | fail | 27 | 80 | | | 2026-04-23 | Senate | Yea: 85 Nay: 34 | pass | 85 | 34 | | | 2026-04-23 | Senate | Yea: 31 Nay: 9 | pass | 31 | 9 | | | 2025-02-18 | Senate | Motion to override veto prevailed | pass | 31 | 9 | | | 2025-02-18 | House | Motion to override veto prevailed | pass | 85 | 34 | | | 2025-01-31 | House | Final Action - Passed | pass | 83 | 35 | | | 2025-01-30 | House | Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Rep. Heather Meyer was rejected | fail | 31 | 84 | | | 2025-01-30 | House | Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Rep. Heather Meyer was rejected | fail | 31 | 85 | | | 2025-01-30 | House | Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Rep. Ford Carr was rejected | fail | 31 | 85 | | | 2025-01-30 | House | Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Rep. Melissa Oropeza was rejected | fail | 27 | 80 | | | 2025-01-30 | House | Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Rep. Nikki McDonald was rejected | fail | 29 | 84 | | | 2025-01-30 | House | Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Rep. Susan Ruiz was rejected | fail | 30 | 86 | | | 2025-01-30 | House | Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Rep. Jo Ella Hoye was rejected | fail | 29 | 83 | | | 2025-01-29 | Senate | Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended | pass | 32 | 8 | | ## Actions (40) - 2025-02-18: Motion to override veto prevailed; Yea 31, Nay 9 (Senate) - 2025-02-18: Motion to override veto prevailed; Yea 85, Nay 34, Absent 6 (House) - 2025-02-13: Vetoed by Governor; Returned to Senate on Tuesday, February 11, 2025 (Senate) - 2025-02-05: Enrolled and presented to Governor on Wednesday, February 5, 2025 (Senate) - 2025-01-31: Final Action - Passed; Yea 83, Nay 35, Absent 7 (House) - 2025-01-30: Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Rep. Ford Carr (House) - 2025-01-30: Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Rep. Ford Carr was rejected; Yea 31, Nay 85, Absent 9 (House) - 2025-01-30: Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Rep. Heather Meyer (House) - 2025-01-30: Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Rep. Heather Meyer was rejected; Yea 31, Nay 84, Absent 10 (House) - 2025-01-30: Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Rep. Heather Meyer (House) - 2025-01-30: Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Rep. Heather Meyer was rejected; Yea 31, Nay 85, Absent 9 (House) - 2025-01-30: Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Rep. Jo Ella Hoye (House) - 2025-01-30: Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Rep. Jo Ella Hoye was rejected; Yea 29, Nay 83, Absent 13 (House) - 2025-01-30: Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Rep. Nikki McDonald (House) - 2025-01-30: Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Rep. Nikki McDonald was rejected; Yea 29, Nay 84, Absent 12 (House) - 2025-01-30: Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Rep. Melissa Oropeza (House) - 2025-01-30: Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Rep. Melissa Oropeza was rejected; Yea 27, Nay 80, Absent 18 (House) - 2025-01-30: Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Rep. Susan Ruiz (House) - 2025-01-30: Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Rep. Susan Ruiz was rejected; Yea 30, Nay 86, Absent 9 (House) - 2025-01-30: Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Rep. Susan Ruiz (House) - 2025-01-30: Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Rep. Susan Ruiz was rejected (House) - 2025-01-30: Committee of the Whole - Be passed (House) - 2025-01-29: Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare (Senate) - 2025-01-29: Motion to advance to EFA, subject to amendment, debate and roll call. (Senate) - 2025-01-29: Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted (Senate) - 2025-01-29: Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Sen. David Haley (Senate) - 2025-01-29: Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Sen. David Haley was rejected (Senate) - 2025-01-29: Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Sen. David Haley (Senate) - 2025-01-29: Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Sen. David Haley was rejected (Senate) - 2025-01-29: Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Sen. Cindy Holscher (Senate) - 2025-01-29: Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Sen. Cindy Holscher was rejected (Senate) - 2025-01-29: Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Sen. Dinah Sykes (Senate) - 2025-01-29: Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Sen. Dinah Sykes was rejected (Senate) - 2025-01-29: Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea 32, Nay 8 (Senate) - 2025-01-29: Received and Introduced (House) - 2025-01-29: Referred to Committee of the Whole (House) - 2025-01-28: Hearing: Tuesday, January 28, 2025, 8:30 AM — Room 142-S — CANCELED (Senate) - 2025-01-28: Hearing: Tuesday, January 28, 2025, 8:30 AM — Room 548-South (Senate) - 2025-01-23: Referred to Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare (Senate) - 2025-01-22: Introduced (Senate) ## Bill text - As Amended by Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_63/sb63_01_0000.pdf) - As Introduced: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_63/sb63_00_0000.pdf) - Enrolled: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_63/sb63_enrolled.pdf) ## Related bills - SB 430: Adding mitragynine to schedule I of the uniform controlled substances act and reconciling multiple amendments to certain statutes in the Kansas criminal code. (signed) - SB 82: Providing tax credits for expenditures for lockable gun and ammunition storage and the retail sale of higher ethanol blends of fuel, discontinuing the tax cred… (signed) - SB 300: Providing for the apportionment of business income by manufacturers of alcoholic liquor depending on whether the taxpayer is a qualifying Kansas investor or a… (signed) - HB 2029: Reconciling multiple amendments to certain statutes. (signed) - HB 2018: Senate Substitute for HB 2018 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs - Creating the crime of interference with the conduct of a religious assembly, providin… (became law) - HB 2530: Substitute for HB 2530 by Committee on Education - Providing for the transferability of credentials earned through ACT workkeys career readiness assessments to… (failed) ## Sources - [As Amended by Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_63/sb63_01_0000.pdf) - [As Introduced (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_63/sb63_00_0000.pdf) - [Enrolled (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_63/sb63_enrolled.pdf) ## Related - [SB 430: Adding mitragynine to schedule I of the uniform controlled substances act and r…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-SB430-2025-2026) - [SB 82: Providing tax credits for expenditures for lockable gun and ammunition storage…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-SB82-2025-2026) - [SB 300: Providing for the apportionment of business income by manufacturers of alcoholi…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-SB300-2025-2026) - [HB 2029: Reconciling multiple amendments to certain statutes.](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-HB2029-2025-2026) - [HB 2018: Senate Substitute for HB 2018 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs - Creat…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-HB2018-2025-2026) - [HB 2530: Substitute for HB 2530 by Committee on Education - Providing for the transferab…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-HB2530-2025-2026) - [Kansas bills](https://policyrisk.com/states/kansas/bills) - [Kansas state hub](https://policyrisk.com/states/kansas) - [All state legislation](https://policyrisk.com/state-bills) Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-SB63-2025-2026 (as of 2026-10-19).