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Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare

  • Committee Assistant: Donola Fairbanks 785-296-5123
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    • Meeting Day: Daily Time: 8:30 am Location: 142-S

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    Bills, Resolutions and Appointments

    Sponsored Bills
    SB77 - Enacting the audiology and speech-language pathology interstate compact.
    SB83 - Allowing certain exceptions to the confidentiality of state child death review board documents.
    SB85 - Requiring notification to the governor and the legislature of missing foster care youth.
    SB120 - Establishing the joint committee on child welfare system oversight.
    SB121 - Updating certain provisions of the Kansas dental practice act.
    SB128 - Prohibiting disparate treatment by pharmacy benefits managers of certain pharmacies and pharmaceutical services providers.
    SB129 - Providing for the licensure of dental therapists.
    SB138 - Establishing certification and funding for certified community behavioral health clinics.
    SB139 - Permitting the administration of certain tests, questionnaires, surveys and examinations regarding student beliefs and practices on an opt-out basis and providing conditions therefor.
    SB174 - Updating scope of practice requirements for advanced practice registered nurses without a supervising physician, imposing requirements therefor and updating certain licensure requirements.
    SB175 - Enacting the rural emergency hospital act to provide for the licensure of rural emergency hospitals and establishing the rural hospital innovation grant program to assist rural hospitals in serving rural communities.
    SB199 - Providing for short-term, limited-duration health plans.
    SB200 - Expanding the pharmacist scope of practice to include initiation of therapy for certain conditions, updating provisions of the prescription monitoring program act relating to program data, storage and access and increasing the membership of the advisory committee.
    SB227 - Providing dental benefits for medicaid enrollees and making technical updates to the dental practices act.
    SB237 - Requiring the secretary of health and environment to establish a task force to study and report on uncompensated healthcare.
    SB238 - Substitute for SB 238 by Committee on Public Health and Welfare - Requiring emergency medical services operators be overseen by medical directors or physicians; clarifying duties and functions of the state board of pharmacy; providing for confidentiality of investigations, inspections and audits; establishing fees on out-of-state facilities; defining telepharmacy and requiring the adoption of rules and regulations related thereto.
    SB239 - Authorizing the secretary for children and families to request a waiver from certain limitations under the food assistance program.
    SB240 - Requiring drug rebate revenues associated with medical assistance enrollees to be deposited into the state general fund and monthly reporting thereof.
    SB241 - Allowing a child placed up for adoption following termination of parental rights to remain eligible for state-provided health insurance.
    SB343 - Providing considerations for in family law, adoption, foster care, guardianship and child in need of care proceedings for parents or prospective parents who are blind and updating the term "hearing impaired" to "hard of hearing" in statutes related to persons with hearing loss.
    SB348 - Exempting the practice of threading from the practice of cosmetology.
    SB373 - Making appropriations to the university of Kansas medical center for fiscal years 2022, 2023 and 2024 for conducting COVID-19 clinical trials at the midwest stem cell therapy center.
    SB380 - Revising certain definitions relating to exceptional children by replacing emotional disturbance with emotional disability.
    SB381 - Allowing for the prescribing and dispensing of medications for off-label use to prevent and treat COVID-19 infections.
    SB387 - Reinstating social worker applicant option for board-approved postgraduate supervised experience and allowing master's and clinical level licensees to take baccalaureate addiction counselor test.
    SB398 - Requiring child care facilities and schools to grant religious exemptions from vaccination requirements without inquiring into the sincerity of the religious beliefs.
    SB425 - Directing the Kansas department for children and families to share certain information with investigating law enforcement agencies.
    SB436 - Ensuring a right to in-person visitation at medical care facilities and adult care homes, prohibiting certain public health orders related to isolation and quarantine, stay-at-home orders, curfews and face masks, limiting isolation or quarantine orders to recommendations and providing criminal penalties for certain violations, limiting state of disaster emergency powers of the governor and state of local disaster emergency powers of counties and cities related to stay-at-home orders, curfews and face masks and limiting powers of the secretary of health and environment and local health officers.
    SB437 - Prohibiting certain acts by business entities, governmental entities or public officials based upon a person's vaccination status or possession of an immunity passport, amending the Kansas act against discrimination to define unlawful employment practices related to vaccination status or possession of an immunity passport and limiting powers of the secretary of health and environment and local health officers.
    SB440 - Establishing when an occupational therapist may treat a patient without referral from a physician and requiring occupational therapists to maintain professional liability insurance.
    SB441 - Enacting the biological laboratory accident transparency act.
    SB442 - Requiring wireless communication vendors activate push notifications from a minor's wireless communication device to a parent's wireless communication device when a minor's wireless communication device downloads an application.
    SB453 - Requiring unlicensed employees in adult care homes to complete certain training requirements, reinstating the social worker applicant option for board-approved postgraduate supervised experience, allowing master's and clinical level licensees to take the baccalaureate addiction counselor test and requiring the behavioral sciences regulatory board to accept a master of social work degree from Fort Hays state university as from an accredited college or university.
    SB454 - Amending the advanced practice registered nurse authorized scope of practice to permit the prescribing of drugs without a supervising physician.
    SB489 - Removing certain regulatory authority concerning infectious or contagious diseases from the secretary of health and environment.
    SB500 - Permitting the creation of long term care facilities for children in continued crisis.
    SB501 - Requiring able-bodied adults without dependents to complete an employment and training program in order to receive food assistance, requiring state agencies to conduct cross-checks to verify public assistance recipient eligibility and to receive public assistance, requiring the department for health and environment seek approval to eliminate mandatory hospital presumptive eligibility, requiring hospitals to follow standards established for presumptive eligibility determinations and requiring state agencies to make data from fraud investigations into food assistance and medical assistance publicly available on such agencies' websites.
    SB502 - Providing for separate licensure authority for maternity centers.
    HB2062 - Senate Substitute for HB 2062 by Committee on Public Health and Welfare - Prohibiting boards of county commissioners, boards of trustees or employees from restricting visitors of residents of a county home for the aged or patients in a county hospital and permitting such residents and patients to waive state, city or federal restrictions on the right to receive visitors.
    HB2208 - Senate Substitute for HB 2208 by Committee on Public Health and Welfare - Establishing certification and funding for certified community behavioral health clinics, enacting the rural emergency hospital act to provide for the licensure of rural emergency hospitals, authorizing telemedicine waivers for out-of-state healthcare providers, reducing certain requirements for licensure by the behavioral sciences regulatory board and expanding out-of-state temporary permits to practice behavioral sciences professions.
    HB2262 - Senate Substitute for HB 2262 by Committee on Public Health and Welfare - Updating schedules I, II, IV and V of the uniform controlled substances act.
    HB2279 - Senate substitute for HB 2279 by committee on public health and welfare - Amending the advanced practice registered nurse authorized scope of practice to permit the prescribing of drugs without a supervising physician.
    HB2280 - Senate Substitute for HB 2280 by Committee on Public Health and Welfare - Authorizing the prescribing and dispensing of medications for off-label use to prevent and treat COVID-19 infections and requiring child care facilities and schools to grant religious exemptions from vaccination requirements without inquiring into the sincerity of such religious beliefs.
    HB2448 - Senate Substitute for HB 2448 by Committee on Public Health and Welfare - Requiring able-bodied adults without dependents to complete an employment and training program in order to receive food assistance.
    Sponsored Resolutions - 2021 Legislative Session
    SR1707 - Recognizing the need to administer the COVID-19 vaccine.
    Sponsored Resolutions - 2022 Legislative Session
    SR1707 - Recognizing the need to administer the COVID-19 vaccine.
    SR1724 - Supporting the Global Covid Summit Physicians Declaration II and its three foundational principles.
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