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Minutes for SB55 - Committee on Education
Short Title
Clarifying the authority of healing arts school clinics to provide healing arts services.
Minutes Content for Thu, Jan 28, 2021
Chairperson Baumgardner opened the hearing on SB55 - Clarifying the authority of healing arts school clinics to provide healing arts services.
Tamera Lawrence, Assistant Revisor, Office of the Revisor of Statutes, presented an overview of the bill. (Attachment 4)
Dr. Carl Cleveland III, Doctor of Chiropractic and President, Cleveland University-Kansas City (CUKC), gave testimony in support of this bill stating it would eliminate a conflict between the existing statute that exempts CUKC from coverage under the Kansas Private and Out-of-State Post-secondary Educational Institution Act and another statute that enables the University to operate an educational clinic but requires CUKC to be approved by KBOR. The bill would also clarify authority for CUKC to expand its student intern education experience through establishing or affiliating with off-campus clinical sites.
CUKC is a 501(c)(3) non-profit postsecondary higher education institution, founded in 1922 in Kansas City, Missouri and since 2008 has provided instruction at its newly renovated campus in Overland Park, Kansas. The university is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission, the Accreditation Council for Occupational Therapy Education, and the Council on Chiropractic Education.CUKC offers Associate Degrees in Biological Sciences, Radiological Technology and Occupational Therapy Assistant, Bachelor's Degrees in Human Biology and Exercise Science, a Master's of Science in Health Promotion Education, and a Doctor of Chiropractic degree.
A key focus of the education mission of Cleveland University's College of Chiropractic is to prepare graduates to become skillful and ethical practitioners who also are equipped to conduct a professional practice in the business of chiropractic in accordance with federal and state law. As part of its academic program, CUKC maintains the on-campus Cleveland Chiropractic Health Center which serves as the main teaching clinic whereby the senor year interns gain educational experience providing direct patient care under the supervision of licensed doctors of chiropractic.
The administration's short-range and long-range plans include creating educational opportunities for enhancing the student intern education and patient care experience caring for diverse populations within Johnson and Wyandotte Counties. (Attachment 5)
Matt Lindsey, President, Kansas Independent College Association (KICA), explained that CUKC was chartered in Missouri but wholly operates in the state of Kansas. That unusual status, a nonprofit college chartered in one state but moved entirely to another, places CUKC in an unusual position. Until 2017, CUKC was regulated by KBOR and forced to comply with regulations and procedures that are designed to safeguard against unscrupulous educational institutions located outside of the state of Kansas or operating as for-profit institutions. CUKC was neither. However, by dint of its Missouri Charter, CUKC was forced to go through KBOR's costly and time-consuming process. Thus KICA's request in 2017 to explicitly exempt CUKC from the Private and Out-of-State Postsecondary Educational Institutions Act. This, however, put CUKC in conflict with Board of Healing Arts statutes regulating operation of educational clinics in the state. SB55 seeks to reconcile this conflict and affirmatively state that an institution of higher education may operate such clinics provided they are either subject to KBOR oversight or statutorily exempt from KBOR oversight. SB55 also provides clarity to current law regarding off-campus clinical sites which would give CUKC the ability to expand its student training at off-campus community clinics. (Attachment 6)
Written proponent testimony was provided by Travis R. Oller, Doctor of Chiropractic and Executive Director of Kansas Chiropractic Association. (Attachment 7)
The Chair closed the hearing on SB55.
Meeting was adjourned at 1:59 PM.
The next Committee meeting will be February 1, 2021, 1:30 PM in Room 144-S.
