"But in late January, Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee approved an amendment to the bill that would have required government buildings in the state to segregate spaces like bathrooms and locker rooms by sex and banned trans people from using facilities that do not align with the sex they were assigned at birth. Notably, the committee gave no public notice that it would add the bathroom ban to the bill prior to voting on it."
"Worse, after approving the amendment, the committee used a procedure known as "gut-and-go" which allowed them to place the contents of H.B. 2426 into an entirely unrelated bill, S.B. 244, that had already been passed by the state Senate. The maneuver allowed the Kansas Senate to sidestep public input and vote on the legislation without a hearing. The state Senate approved S.B. 244 in a 30-9 vote, also along party lines, late last month."
Republican lawmakers amended H.B. 2426 to require driver’s licenses and birth certificates to indicate sex assigned at birth and to ban transgender people from using bathrooms and locker rooms that align with their gender identity. The House Judiciary Committee added the bathroom ban without prior public notice and then used a "gut-and-go" procedure to insert the amendment into S.B. 244, a Senate-passed bill, allowing the Senate to vote without a public hearing. The state Senate passed S.B. 244 on a 30-9 party-line vote. Governor Laura Kelly vetoed S.B. 244, citing numerous and significant consequences.
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