(Jan. 24, 2025) – Legislative bill hearings will pick up next week, as does the pace for agency budgets before the House budget committees. With the House tackling the budget and the Senate taking the lead on tax issues, the legislative leadership remains committed to a quick session pace for the 2025 session.
Monday, Jan. 27
House Appropriations – 9:00 a.m. – Room 112N
Budget report: Chairperson David Buehler, Social Services Budget – Kansas State Board of Nursing
House Higher Education Budget – 1:30 p.m. – Room 281N
Budget hearing: Kansas Board of Regents, Washburn University, The University of Kansas, The University of Kansas Medical Center
House Social Services Budget – 3:30 p.m. – Room 152S
Hearing continuation: Recommendations – Kansas Department for Children and Families
Budget hearing: Kansas Department of Health and Environment
Tuesday, Jan. 28
Senate Public Health and Welfare – 8:30 a.m. – Room 548S
Hearing: Senate Bill 63 – Enacting the Help Not Harm Act, restricting the use of state funds to promote gender transitioning, prohibiting health care providers from providing gender transition care to children whose gender identity is inconsistent with the child's sex, authorizing a civil cause of action against health care providers for providing such treatments, requiring professional discipline against a health care provider who performs such treatment, prohibiting professional liability insurance from covering damages for health care providers that provide gender transition treatment to children and adding violation of the act to the definition of unprofessional conduct for physicians.
Senate Government Efficiency – 9:30 a.m. – Room 144S
Presentation: Office of Medicaid Inspector General
House Appropriations – 9:00 a.m. – Room 112N
Budget report: Chairperson David Buehler, Social Services budget – Kansas Health Care Stabilization Fund, Larned State Hospital, Osawatomie State Hospital
House Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications – 9:00 a.m. – Room 582N
Presentation: Update on Rural Broadband; Cat Moyer, Pioneer Communications
House Health and Human Services – 1:30 p.m. – Room 112N
Hearing: House Bill 2071 – Enacting the Help Not Harm Act to restrict the use of state funds to promote gender transitioning, prohibit health care providers from providing gender transition whose gender identity is inconsistent with the child's sex, authorize a civil cause of action against health care providers for providing such treatments, require professional discipline against a health care provider who performs such treatment and prohibit professional liability insurance from covering damages for health care providers that provide gender transition treatment to children and adding violation of the act to the definition of unprofessional conduct for physicians.
House Social Services Budget – 3:30 p.m. – Room 152S
Hearing continuation on: Public testimony for the Kansas Department of Health and Human Services
Wednesday, Jan. 29
Senate Public Health and Welfare – 8:30 a.m. – Room 142S
Final Action: Senate Bill 63 – Enacting the Help Not Harm Act, restricting the use of state funds to promote gender transitioning, prohibiting health care providers from providing gender transition care to children whose gender identity is inconsistent with the child's sex, authorizing a civil cause of action against health care providers for providing such treatments, requiring professional discipline against a health care provider who performs such treatment, prohibiting professional liability insurance from covering damages for health care providers that provide gender transition treatment to children and adding violation of the act to the definition of unprofessional conduct for physicians.
Senate Assessment and Taxation – 9:30 a.m. – Room 548S
Hearing: Senate Bill 25 – Enacting the Insurance Savings Account Act, allowing individuals and corporations to establish insurance savings accounts with certain financial institutions, providing eligible expenses, requirements, and restrictions for such accounts, and establishing addition and subtraction modifications under the Kansas Income Tax Act.
Senate Ways and Means – 10:30 a.m. – Room 548S
Briefing: Staff – ongoing reporting requirements contained in past budget bills
Senate Utilities – 1:30 p.m. – Room 548S
Update: Broadband in Kansas Department of Commerce, Office of Broadband
House Appropriations – 9:00 a.m. – Room 112N
Budget report: Chairperson Steven Howe, Higher Education Budget – Kansas Board of Regents, The University of Kansas, The University of Kansas Medical Center
House Financial Institutions and Pensions – 9:00 a.m. – Room 582N
Presentation: KPERS overview and update, Alan Conroy, executive director
House Social Services Budget – 3:30 p.m. – Room 152S
Hearing continuation: Recommendations for the Kansas Department of Health and Environment Budget Hearing: Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services
Thursday, Jan. 30
Senate Public Health and Welfare – 8:30 a.m. – Room 142S
Hearing: Senate Bill 31 – Updating certain provisions of the Kansas Dental Practices Act relating to dentist information requested by patients, in-person practice requirements in dental offices using the licensee's name, unprofessional conduct and patient complaints.
Senate Government Efficiency – 9:30 a.m. – Room 144S
Presentation: Agency operations – Kansas Insurance Commissioner
Senate Financial Institutions and Insurance – 9:30 a.m. – Room 546S
Presentation: Paid family and medical leave – Tracy Russell, executive director, Nurture KC; Jan Marrs, Mize CPAs
House Appropriations – 9:00 a.m. – Room 112N
Budget report: Chairperson Barb Wasinger, General Government budget – Kansas Insurance Department Kansas Public Employees Retirement System
Budget report: Chairperson Avery Anderson, Transportation and Public Safety budget – Kansas 911 Coordinating Council; Kansas Bureau of Investigation; State Fire Marshal
House Health and Human Services – 1:30 p.m. – Room 112N
Presentation: Kansas Association of Family Physicians, Oral Health Kansas, Kansas Dental Association
House Social Services Budget – 3:30 p.m. – Room 152S
Hearing continuation: Public testimony for Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services
Friday, Jan. 31
House Social Services Budget – 3:30 p.m. – Room 152S
Hearing continuation: Recommendations for Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services