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April 27, 2023

2 entries on this date.

Kansas Legislature overrode Gov. Kelly's veto to enact HB 2138 school overnight-lodging biological-sex mandate

On April 27, 2023, the Kansas Senate voted 30-9 to override Gov. Laura Kelly's veto of Senate Substitute for HB 2138, completing its enactment a day after the House overrode the veto 85-39. The law requires every school district to adopt a policy providing separate overnight accommodations "for students of each biological sex" during school-sponsored travel, defining "biological sex" by chromosomes, hormones, gonads, and genitalia at birth "without regard to an individual's psychological, chosen or subjective experience of gender." It took effect July 1, 2023, and was published as Chapter 87 of the 2023 Session Laws of Kansas.

Kansas Legislature overrode Gov. Kelly's veto to enact SB180, fixing legal sex to birth biology across facilities and vital records

On April 27, 2023, the Kansas Legislature enacted SB180, the "Women's Bill of Rights," by overriding Gov. Laura Kelly's veto, with the Senate voting 28-12 on April 26 and the House completing the override 84-40 the next day. The law defines "sex," "male," and "female" for all purposes of state law strictly by reproductive biology at birth and directs that this binary definition govern access to sex-segregated facilities and the recording of sex in state vital statistics. It took effect July 1, 2023.