Printable Format75-5674. Establishment and maintenance; authority. The secretary of health and environment shall establish and maintain family planning centers in cooperation with the secretary for children and families and county, city-county and multicounty health departments. Such family planning centers, upon request of any person who is over 18 years of age and who is married or who has been referred to such center by a person licensed to practice medicine and surgery and who resides in this state, may furnish and disseminate information concerning, and means and methods of planned parenthood, including such contraceptive devices as recommended by the secretary of health and environment. Such methods and means shall be consistent with the religious and personal convictions of the individual to whom furnished.
History: L. 1965, ch. 384, § 1; L. 1973, ch. 186, § 20; L. 1975, ch. 462, § 34; L. 1980, ch. 182, § 8; L. 2014, ch. 115, § 376; July 1.
Source or Prior Law:
23-501.
Law Review and Bar Journal References:
1963-65 survey of family law, John W. Brand, Jr., and Dan Hopson, Jr., 14 K.L.R. 271, 292 (1965).
Wrongful life actions, Steven G. Cooper, 11 W.L.J. 286, 289 (1972).
State regulation of contraceptives, Christel E. Marquardt, 12 W.L.J. 97, 100 (1972).
Attorney General's Opinions:
Kansas open meetings act; application of act to nonprofit corporation. 81-253.
Family planning services for minors; parental consent. 87-66.
Family planning centers; state funding of contraceptives for minors. 92-71.
"Mature" minor has capacity to consent to outpatient mental health services. 2003-35.