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Kan. Senate votes to keep funds from Planned Parenthood

Planned ParenthodTOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas legislators are moving to make permanent an annual budget policy that prevents the state from providing federal family planning dollars to Planned Parenthood.

The Senate approved a bill Tuesday on a 31-9 vote, sending the measure to the House.

The legislation deals with federal family planning dollars for non-abortion services.

Lawmakers have included a provision in the state’s annual budgets since 2011 saying that money must go first to public health departments and then to hospitals.

The goal was prevent any of the funds from going to Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri, which also provides abortions. Putting the policy into state law means lawmakers won’t have to keep renewing it.

A federal appeals court upheld the policy in 2014. Planned Parenthood lost about $370,000 a year.

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