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Senate adopts measure adding pregnancy-related expenses to child-support considerations and a tax exemption for unborn children; critics warn of privacy and 'f
Summary
The Senate adopted the conference committee report on House Bill 2062 to allow courts to consider pregnancy-related medical expenses in child-support orders and to create a taxable-year personal exemption for an unborn child; critics cited privacy, practicality and fetal-personhood concerns.
The Kansas Senate adopted the conference committee report on House Bill 2062, a measure that adds direct pregnancy-related medical expenses of the mother to factors courts must consider when setting child support and creates a taxable-year personal exemption of $2,320 for an unborn child, including for a stillbirth in certain circumstances.
Supporters framed the change as a targeted measure to help pregnant people with pregnancy- and birth-related costs, arguing that courts already consider circumstances and that adding these expenses…
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