Kansas enacted SB228 mandating that county jails house detainees by biological sex over the governor's veto
On April 26, 2023, the Kansas Legislature overrode Governor Laura Kelly's veto to enact SB228, a county-jail bill that amended K.S.A. 19-1903 to define "sex" as an individual's biological sex at birth and to require sheriffs to keep separate jail spaces for each sex, male and female. The House overrode the veto 87-37 and the Senate 31-9, enacting the measure as 2023 Session Laws Chapter 83. The provision bars transgender and intersex women from female-designated jail housing.