(March 25, 2025) – Today, the Health Conference Committee met and agreed to changes to House Bill 2280. The bill clarifies that the authorized activities of paramedics, advanced emergency medical technicians, emergency medical technicians and emergency medical responders may be authorized upon the order of a health care professional, permits certain ambulance services to offer service for less than 24 hours per day, every day of the year, and requires entities using automated external defibrillators to register with the Kansas Emergency Medical Services Board.

The conference committee also agreed to changes in Senate Bill 250. The bill enacts the Right to Try for Individualized Treatments Act to permit a manufacturer to make an individualized investigative treatment available to a requesting patient.

The committee is slated to meet on Wednesday, March 26, to discuss Sub for Senate Bill 126, which includes the hospital provider assessment language.