GOP overrides gov's veto to enact bill that could ban "husbands from wives' shared hospital rooms" - LGBTQ Nation

"As I said in my veto statement, this is a poorly drafted bill with significant, far-reaching consequences,"

"Not only will this bill keep brothers from visiting sisters' dorms and husbands from wives' shared hospital rooms, it will cost Kansas taxpayers millions of dollars to comply with this very vague legislation."

"Kansas Democrats are for They/Them,"

"I will continue to fight for you, and protect women and girls across our state."

Republican supermajorities in the Kansas Legislature overrode Gov. Laura Kelly's veto of S.B. 244, with the House voting 87-37 and the Senate 31-9 to override. The bill was originally about gender markers on driver's licenses but was changed through a gut-and-go maneuver to add bathroom provisions without hearings on those additions. The law bars transgender people from using government-building restrooms that do not align with their sex assigned at birth. Critics say the law will prevent family members from visiting loved ones in dorms, hospitals, and nursing homes and will impose millions in compliance costs.

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