The ACLU of Kansas is never busier than when the Legislature is in session. Either independently or with our partners in various and diverse coalitions, we work to protect civil liberties for all Kansans by either placing, supporting, altering, or defeating legislation that would threaten those civil liberties.
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Jan 24, 2025
HB 2021
Jan 24, 2025
HB 2021
Ballot Box Bill
Voting Rights
Position: Oppose
Status: Introduced
Relating to advance voting ballots; authorizing the secretary of state to adopt rules and regulations for the use of remote ballot boxes.
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Jan 24, 2025
SB 63
Jan 24, 2025
SB 63
Anti Gender Affirming Care
LGBTQ+ Rights
Position: Oppose
Status: Introduced
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...
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Jan 16, 2025
SB 19
Jan 16, 2025
SB 19
Concientious Right to Refuse Act
Status: Introduced
Enacting the conscientious right to refuse act to prohibit discrimination against individuals who refuse medical care and creating a civil cause of action based on such discrimination and revoking the...
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Jan 16, 2025
SB 30
Jan 16, 2025
SB 30
Criminal History Check
Criminal Legal Reform
Status: Introduced
Requiring the secretary of labor to conduct a state and national criminal history record check on employees who have access to federal tax information received directly from the internal revenue service....
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Jan 15, 2025
HB 2009
Jan 15, 2025
HB 2009
Abortion Ban, Except for Life of the Mother
Reproductive Freedom
Position: Oppose
Status: Introduced
Prohibiting abortion procedures except when necessary to save the life of the pregnant woman and providing a private cause of action for civil enforcement of such prohibition.
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Jan 15, 2025
HB 2010
Jan 15, 2025
HB 2010
Total Abortion Ban
Reproductive Freedom
Position: Oppose
Status: Introduced
Prohibiting abortion procedures and creating the crimes of unlawful performance of an abortion and unlawful destruction of a fertilized embryo.