(Mar. 15, 2024) –Committees will spend the early part of next week working through final bills having come from the alternate chamber, with more floor action scheduled as bills make their way to the deadlines of first adjournment.

Monday, Mar. 20
Senate Public Health and Welfare – 8:30 a.m. – Room 142S
Hearing: House Bill 2578 – Provides that programs and treatments provided by a certified community behavioral health clinic be granted a renewal certification if such programs and treatments have been previously certified or accredited
House Bill 2484 – Enacts the Social Work Licensure Compact to provide interstate practice privileges for social workers

Senate Federal and State Affairs – 10:30 a.m. – Room 144S
Hearing: House Bill 2358 – Permits mid-level practitioners to provide medical certification to attest to an individual's cause of death to file a death certificate

Senate Education – 1:30 p.m. – Room 144S
Hearing: Substitute for House Bill 2494 by Committee on Education – Establishes policy requirements for cardiac emergency response plans for school districts and provides a grant program for the implementation of such policy

House Insurance – 3:30 p.m. – Room 218N
Hearing: House Bill 2825 – Enacts consumer protection related to the Hospital Price Transparency Act
House Bill 2834 – Transfers officers, employees, powers, duties and functions relating to the Kansas Health Care Benefits Program from the division of the Kansas State Employee Health Benefits Plan of the Department of Administration to the Insurance Department, establishes the commissioner of insurance as the chairperson of the Kansas State Employees Health Care Commission, provides all management functions of such commission be administered by the commissioner of insurance and eliminates a pilot program regarding employer contributions for certain children

Tuesday, Mar. 19
Senate Public Health and Welfare – 8:30 a.m. – Room142S
Hearing: House Bill 2749 – Requires medical care facilities and providers to report the reasons for each abortion performed at such facility or by such provider to the secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment

Senate Federal and State Affairs – 10:30 a.m. – Room 144S
Hearing: Senate Bill 527 – Creates the crime of coercion to obtain an abortion and provides enhanced criminal penalties for offenses committed with the intent to coerce a woman to obtain an abortion

Senate Commerce – 10:30 a.m. – Room 546S
Hearing: House Bill 2648 – Requires the director of the budget to independently determine costs of compliance and implementation for all proposed rules and regulations and authorizes the director of the budget to disapprove proposed rules and regulations

Senate Education – 1:30 p.m. – Room 144S
Hearing: House Bill 2669 – Codifies the Mental Health Intervention Team Program, administered by the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services, in state statute

House Federal and State Affairs – 9:00 a.m. – Room 346S
Discussion and action: House Bill 2813 – Creates the crime of coercion to obtain an abortion and provides enhanced criminal penalties for offenses committed with the intent to coerce a woman to obtain an abortion
House Bill 2653 – Provides for child support orders for unborn children from the date of conception

Wednesday, Mar. 20
Senate Public Health and Welfare and Senate Ways and Means – 10:30 a.m. – Room 346S
Informational hearing on Medicaid expansion

Senate Assessment and Taxation – 9:30 a.m. – Room 548S
Hearing: Senate Bill 536 – Requires political subdivisions to adopt a budget remaining at or below revenue neutral and use funds to reduce property tax in order to receive Local Ad Valorem Tax Reduction Fund distributions

House Federal and State Affairs – 9:00 a.m. – Room 346S
Discussion and action: Senate Bill 434 – Exempts the practice of hair removal by sugaring from the definition of cosmetology

House Health and Human Services – 1:00 p.m. – Room 112N
Hearing: House Bill 2556 – Expands medical assistance eligibility and enacts the Cutting Health Care Costs for All Kansans Act

House Insurance – 3:30 p.m. – Room 218N
Discussion and action on: House Bill 2825 – Enacts consumer protection related to the Hospital Price Transparency Act
House Bill 2834 – Transfers officers, employees, powers, duties and functions relating to the Kansas State Health Care Benefits Program from the division of the Kansas State Employee Health Benefits Plan of the Department of Administration to the Insurance Department, establishes the commissioner of insurance as the chairperson of the Kansas State Employees Health Care Commission, provides that all management functions of such commission be administered by the commissioner of insurance and eliminates a pilot program regarding employer contributions for certain children
Hearing: House Bill 2824 – Mandates insurance coverage for pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome and pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections

Thursday, Mar. 21