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Fentanyl test strips, trans athlete ban and smoking age. New KS laws take effect Saturday

On Saturday Kansans will be able to legally access a key tool used to prevent fentanyl overdose deaths and they will no longer need to pay the state $100 for a license to carry a concealed firearm.

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As fear grows among trans Kansans, Gov. Kelly defies Attorney General Kobach on gender marker changes on state IDs

TOPEKA, Kan. — Lane Rozin wakes up every day in fear.

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Transgender Kansas residents can keep updating their documents despite a new law, governor says

Kansas’ Democratic governor says the state will keep allowing residents to change official documents to reflect their gender identities

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The number of Kansas residents changing their gender jumped 300% before a new law began

The number of people officially changing their gender in Kansas jumped more than 300% this year

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Kansas GOP leader wants to ban nonpartisan elections. Republicans are divided about it

The Kansas Republican Party’s new chairman wants to eliminate nonpartisan elections for cities, counties and school boards, throwing his weight behind the concept after the GOP-controlled state Senate earlier this year rejected a similar idea.

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Kansas must undo gender changes for trans people in state records, attorney general says

The conservative Republican attorney general of Kansas says a new Kansas law requires the state to reverse any previous gender changes in its records for trans people’s birth certificates and driver’s licenses while also preventing such changes going forward

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Attorney General Kobach contends that birth certificates, licenses of trans Kansans must use sex at birth

Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach said Monday that a new state law requires Kansas agencies over time to revert updated birth certificates and driver’s licenses issued to transgender residents back to their original forms ahead of its implementation this coming Saturday.

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Kansas' attorney general is moving to block trans people from changing their birth certificates

Kansas’ conservative Republican attorney general is moving to prevent transgender people born in the state from changing their birth certificates to reflect their gender identities

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GOP leaders in Kansas back off threat to sue Democratic governor over education funding

Leaders of Kansas’ Republican-controlled Legislature have backed off a threat to sue the state’s Democratic governor for vetoing parts of a GOP education funding bill

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Kansas faces OB-GYN shortage. Providers warn new laws could further strain maternity care

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Jessica Babler, a nursing student at Research College of Nursing in Kansas City, Missouri, is tired of being vilified for wanting to provide abortions, which she views as health care, to her patients.

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Getting KC prepped for World Cup 2026: Government, team officials outline broad plan

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A World Cup 2026 board of directors, comprised of civic leaders, business executives and local elected officials, will guide the process of getting Kansas City and the region primed to play host to the global soccer event.

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Kansas Gov. Kelly signs education budget. In a test of her power, she vetoes one piece

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly signed a bill Thursday funding Kansas public schools for the next year that included an expansion of an existing school choice program. But in a test of her powers, she rejected a policy provision that would have cut funding to many rural school districts.

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Payback? Project funds axed after Kansas lawmaker defies governor on abortion, trans rights

Kansas’ Democratic governor has vetoed state funds for a project backed by a Democratic lawmaker who helped Republicans override her vetoes of anti-abortion and anti-transgender rights measures

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Kansas governor vetoes measures to aid anti-abortion centers, limit health officials' power

Kansas’ Democratic governor has vetoed Republican legislation that would have provided a financial boost to pregnancy centers run by abortion opponents and curbed state and local officials' powers during infectious disease outbreaks

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These states are narrowly defining who is 'female' and 'male' in law

LGBTQ advocates say these bills are another attempt to restrict transgender rights. Republicans sponsoring the bills say the definitions are important to keep sex from being conflated with gender.

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GOP split dooms scaled-back Kansas 'school choice' plan

Republican lawmakers in Kansas who say parents need alternatives to public schools couldn’t pass even a scaled-back version of the “school choice” plans enacted in other states with GOP-controlled Legislatures

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Culture war clash gives Kansas new medication abortion law

Kansas clinics will be required to tell patients that medication abortions can be stopped using a drug regimen that the providers consider ineffective and potentially dangerous

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Kansas legislators impose sweeping anti-trans bathroom law

Republican legislators in Kansas have enacted possibly the most sweeping transgender bathroom law in the U.S. The GOP-controlled Legislature on Thursday overrode Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly's veto of the measure

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Kansas abortion providers face new rule after veto overriden

Kansas health care providers could face criminal charges over accusations about their care of newborns delivered during certain abortion procedures

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Kansas sets trans athlete rule; gender-affirming care saved

A Kansas board is telling high schools and middle schools that must see transgender athletes’ first birth certificates to decide what teams they can join

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Kansas has new anti-ESG law amid raft of culture war vetoes

Kansas officials won’t be allowed to use environmental, social and governance factors in investing public funds or deciding who receives government contracts

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Violence against Kansas health care workers prompts fresh push for tougher penalties

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Chris Buesing was walking through the hallway of an orthopedic clinic at Stormont Vail Health in Topeka, Kansas, where he worked when a man came up and punched him in the face.

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Kansas governor nixes abortion, anti-diversity budget items

Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly has vetoed anti-diversity and anti-abortion provisions in Kansas’ next state budget

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Gov. Laura Kelly vetoes 4 GOP bills aimed at regulating the lives of transgender Kansans

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly vetoed four bills Thursday that would have regulated the lives of transgender Kansans, dictating what spaces they are welcome in and the health care they can access.

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Kansas governor vetoes bills on trans youth care, bathrooms

Kansas’ Democratic governor has vetoed two major Republican proposals for rolling back transgender rights

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