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HB 2267

Prohibiting certain licensed individuals from using conversion therapy on minors.

2025-2026 Regular Session

Prohibits licensed Kansas health and behavioral professionals from providing conversion therapy to minors, including via telemedicine, with disciplinary consequences.

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Bill Summary · HB 2267

Summary — HB 2267 (Session of 2025)

Prohibiting certain licensed individuals from using conversion therapy on minors

Purpose

HB 2267 would ban licensed health and behavioral professionals from providing "conversion therapy" to anyone under 18 and make such conduct a basis for professional discipline. The bill also clarifies that the prohibition applies to services delivered via telemedicine and includes a limited religious exemption for unlicensed clergy acting as part of their religious duties.

Key definitions

  • "Conversion therapy": any practice or treatment that seeks to change an individual’s sexual orientation or gender identity, including efforts to change behaviors or gender expressions or to eliminate or reduce sexual or romantic attractions or feelings toward individuals of the same sex or gender.
  • Exclusions: the definition explicitly does not include (a) assistance to an individual undergoing gender transition; (b) practices that provide acceptance, support, and understanding of an individual’s sexual orientation or gender identity; or (c) interventions that facilitate coping, social support, identity exploration and development, or sexual-orientation‑neutral efforts to prevent unlawful conduct or unsafe sexual practices, provided they do not seek to change orientation or identity.
  • "Minor": person under 18 years of age.

Major provisions / statutory changes

  • Prohibits persons licensed by the Kansas State Board of Healing Arts, the Board of Nursing, and the Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board from using conversion therapy on minors. The prohibition covers in‑person and telemedicine services.
  • Declares use of conversion therapy on a minor by these licensees to be "unprofessional conduct," subjecting the practitioner to disciplinary action by their licensing board.
  • Amends the Kansas telemedicine act (K.S.A. 40-2,215) to state telemedicine does not authorize delivery of conversion therapy to minors (in addition to abortion, which is already addressed in that section).
  • Amends nursing disciplinary statute (K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 65-1120) to list use of conversion therapy on a minor among grounds for discipline.
  • Preserves a religious exemption: religious leaders or officials may use conversion therapy as part of religious duties so long as they are not operating under the authority of a state license listed above.
  • Makes the amendment to the telemedicine anti‑authorization provision nonseverable from the remainder of that statute (affects severability analysis).

Who is affected

  • Directly: licensed physicians, advanced practice providers, nurses, and behavioral health licensees in Kansas (those regulated by the three named boards) — they would be prohibited from providing conversion therapy to persons under 18.
  • Indirectly: minors and their families (increased protection from licensed delivery of conversion therapy); religious leaders and unlicensed counselors (remain able to provide such practices when acting as clergy and not under licensure).
  • Telemedicine providers: the ban explicitly covers services delivered remotely.

Enforcement & penalties

  • Enforcement is through existing professional disciplinary processes of the respective licensing boards; prohibited conduct is classified as unprofessional conduct and may trigger denial, suspension, revocation, limitation, continuing education requirements, or censure consistent with each board’s authority.

Fiscal impact

  • The Division of the Budget (fiscal note dated Feb. 20, 2025) reports no fiscal effect for the State Board of Healing Arts and Board of Nursing, and a negligible fiscal effect for the Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board and the Office of Judicial Administration. Any fiscal effect is not reflected in the FY 2026 Governor’s Budget Report.

Procedural status (as provided)

  • Introduced: January 30, 2025
  • Referred to: House Committee on Health and Human Services
  • Companion bill: SB 2273 (noted as related)

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