(Jan. 31, 2025) – Senate Bill 126 by the Committee on Public Health and Welfare – Concerning the healing arts; relating to physician assistants; enacting the Physician Assistant Licensure Compact to provide interstate practice privileges

Senate Bill 127 by the Committee on Judiciary – Concerning the rules of evidence; relating to hearsay; expanding the exception to the hearsay rule for statements made to a physician to other health care providers

Senate Bill 132 by the Committee on Federal and State Affairs – Concerning childcare; relating to licensure of daycare facilities, childcare homes and childcare centers; reducing license fees and training requirements; creating a process for daycare facility licensees to apply for a temporary waiver of certain statutory requirements; authorizing the secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment to develop and operate pilot programs to increase childcare facility availability and capacity; establishing the Kansas Office of Early Childhood; transferring administration of daycare licensing, parent education programs and the Childcare Subsidy Program to the Kansas Office of Early Childhood; creating the Daycare Facilities and Childcare Resource and Referral Agencies licensing fee fund and the daycare criminal background and fingerprinting fund; defining youth development programs

Senate Bill 2151 by Representatives Woodard, Alcala, Amyx, Carlin, Carmichael, Carr, Featherston, Haskins, Hoye, Martinez, McDonald, Melton, Meyer, Miller, Neighbor, Sawyer Clayton, Schlingensiepen, Simmons, Stogsdill, Weigel, Wikle and Xu – Concerning labor and employment; increasing the Kansas minimum wage to $15 an hour

House Bill 2157 by the Committee on Health and Human Services, requested by Heather Sprague on behalf of the Kansas Association of Chain Drugstores – Concerning pharmacists and pharmacy; relating to the Kansas Board of Pharmacy; expanding the pharmacist's scope of practice to include point-of-care testing for and treatment of COVID-19

House Bill 2163 by the Committee on Taxation, requested by Representative Howerton on behalf of LeadingAge Kansas – Concerning income taxation; relating to credits; providing for the Preceptor Income Tax Incentive Act; establishing a credit for nursing home administrators, registered nurses and registered dietitians that serve as community-based faculty preceptor in adult care homes and medical care facilities by providing personalized instruction, training and supervision for students

House Bill 2165 by Representative Rhiley – Enacting the Returning to Nonaccountability of the Executive Branch Agencies that Report to the Governor Act; eliminating the budget process requirements of a program service inventory, integrated budget fiscal process and performance-based budgeting system

HouseB 2170 by the Committee on Health and Human Services, requested by Representative Essex – Concerning days of commemoration; designating the first week of February as Kansas Burn Awareness Week

House Bill 2171 by Representatives Poetter Parshall, Fairchild and Schwertfeger – Concerning abortion; creating the Abolish Abortion Kansas Act; making all abortions subject to criminal prosecution for violation of Alexa's law; removing certain exceptions to wrongful death cause of action for the death of an unborn child when such death is caused by an abortion