http://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/committees/ctte_s_phw_1/Events Relating to the Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare of the Kansas Legislatureen-usTue, 10 Dec 2024 15:27:42 +0000http://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb77/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLSSponsored by committee: SB77 - Enacting the audiology and speech-language pathology interstate compact.http://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb77/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLShttp://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb83/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLSSponsored by committee: SB83 - Allowing certain exceptions to the confidentiality of state child death review board documents.http://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb83/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLShttp://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb85/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLSSponsored by committee: SB85 - Requiring notification to the governor and the legislature of missing foster care youth.http://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb85/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLShttp://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb120/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLSSponsored by committee: SB120 - Establishing the joint committee on child welfare system oversight. http://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb120/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLShttp://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb121/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLSSponsored by committee: SB121 - Updating certain provisions of the Kansas dental practice act.http://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb121/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLShttp://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb128/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLSSponsored by committee: SB128 - Prohibiting disparate treatment by pharmacy benefits managers of certain pharmacies and pharmaceutical services providers.http://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb128/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLShttp://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb129/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLSSponsored by committee: SB129 - Providing for the licensure of dental therapists.http://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb129/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLShttp://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb138/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLSSponsored by committee: SB138 - Establishing certification and funding for certified community behavioral health clinics.http://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb138/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLShttp://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb139/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLSSponsored by committee: 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.http://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb139/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLShttp://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb174/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLSSponsored by committee: SB174 - Updating scope of practice requirements for advanced practice registered nurses without a supervising physician, imposing requirements therefor and updating certain licensure requirements.http://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb174/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLShttp://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb175/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLSSponsored by committee: 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.http://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb175/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLShttp://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb199/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLSSponsored by committee: SB199 - Providing for short-term, limited-duration health plans.http://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb199/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLShttp://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb200/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLSSponsored by committee: 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.http://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb200/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLShttp://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb227/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLSSponsored by committee: SB227 - Providing dental benefits for medicaid enrollees and making technical updates to the dental practices act.http://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb227/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLShttp://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb237/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLSSponsored by committee: SB237 - Requiring the secretary of health and environment to establish a task force to study and report on uncompensated healthcare.http://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb237/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLShttp://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb238/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLSSponsored by committee: SB238 - Substitute for SB 238 Committee on Public Health and Welfare - Establishing certification and funding for certified community behavioral health clinics, 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.http://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb238/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLShttp://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb239/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLSSponsored by committee: SB239 - Authorizing the secretary for children and families to request a waiver from certain limitations under the food assistance program.http://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb239/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLShttp://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb240/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLSSponsored by committee: SB240 - Requiring drug rebate revenues associated with medical assistance enrollees to be deposited into the state general fund and monthly reporting thereof.http://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb240/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLShttp://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb241/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLSSponsored by committee: SB241 - Allowing a child placed up for adoption following termination of parental rights to remain eligible for state-provided health insurance.http://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb241/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLShttp://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb343/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLSSponsored by committee: 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.http://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb343/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLShttp://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb348/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLSSponsored by committee: SB348 - Exempting the practice of threading from the practice of cosmetology. http://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb348/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLShttp://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb373/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLSSponsored by committee: 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.http://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb373/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLShttp://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb380/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLSSponsored by committee: SB380 - Revising certain definitions relating to exceptional children by replacing emotional disturbance with emotional disability.http://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb380/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLShttp://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb381/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLSSponsored by committee: SB381 - Allowing for the prescribing and dispensing of medications for off-label use to prevent and treat COVID-19 infections. http://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb381/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLShttp://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb387/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLSSponsored by committee: 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.http://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb387/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLShttp://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb398/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLSSponsored by committee: SB398 - Requiring child care facilities and schools to grant religious exemptions from vaccination requirements without inquiring into the sincerity of the religious beliefs.http://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb398/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLShttp://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb425/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLSSponsored by committee: SB425 - Directing the Kansas department for children and families to share certain information with investigating law enforcement agencies. http://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb425/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLShttp://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb436/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLSSponsored by committee: 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.http://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb436/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLShttp://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb437/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLSSponsored by committee: 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.http://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb437/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLShttp://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb440/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLSSponsored by committee: SB440 - Establishing when an occupational therapist may treat a patient without referral from a physician and requiring occupational therapists to maintain professional liability insurance.http://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb440/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLShttp://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb441/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLSSponsored by committee: SB441 - Enacting the biological laboratory accident transparency act.http://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb441/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLShttp://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb442/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLSSponsored by committee: 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.http://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb442/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLShttp://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb453/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLSSponsored by committee: 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.http://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb453/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLShttp://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb454/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLSSponsored by committee: SB454 - Amending the advanced practice registered nurse authorized scope of practice to permit the prescribing of drugs without a supervising physician.http://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb454/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLShttp://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb489/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLSSponsored by committee: SB489 - Removing certain regulatory authority concerning infectious or contagious diseases from the secretary of health and environment. http://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb489/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLShttp://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb500/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLSSponsored by committee: SB500 - Permitting the creation of long term care facilities for children in continued crisis.http://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb500/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLShttp://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb501/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLSSponsored by committee: 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.http://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb501/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLShttp://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb502/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLSSponsored by committee: SB502 - Providing for separate licensure authority for maternity centers.http://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sb502/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLShttp://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/hb2062/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLSSponsored by committee: 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.http://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/hb2062/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLShttp://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/hb2208/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLSSponsored by committee: 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.http://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/hb2208/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLShttp://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/hb2262/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLSSponsored by committee: 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.http://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/hb2262/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLShttp://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/hb2279/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLSSponsored by committee: 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.http://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/hb2279/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLShttp://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/hb2280/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLSSponsored by committee: 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.http://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/hb2280/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLShttp://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/hb2448/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLSSponsored by committee: 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. http://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/hb2448/#ctte_s_phw_1-SBILLShttp://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sr1707/#ctte_s_phw_1-SRESOSSponsored by committee: SR1707 - Recognizing the need to administer the COVID-19 vaccine.http://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sr1707/#ctte_s_phw_1-SRESOShttp://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sr1724/#ctte_s_phw_1-SRESOSSponsored by committee: SR1724 - Supporting the Global Covid Summit Physicians Declaration II and its three foundational principles. http://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/sr1724/#ctte_s_phw_1-SRESOShttp://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/hb2150/#ctte_s_phw_1-INCBILLSNow in committee: HB2150 - Creating a definition of financial exploitation, requiring additional mandatory reporters and increasing investigation days in the abuse, neglect and financial exploitation of certain adults.http://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/hb2150/#ctte_s_phw_1-INCBILLShttp://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/hb2259/#ctte_s_phw_1-INCBILLSNow in committee: HB2259 - Permitting the use of expedited partner therapy to treat a sexually transmitted disease.http://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/hb2259/#ctte_s_phw_1-INCBILLS