(Feb. 7, 2025) – Next week, the legislative committees will hit the quickest pace yet this session. The House Appropriations Committee assembles the final budget, and all committees have exactly one week to pass the remaining legislation before they head into the upcoming turnaround deadlines set for Feb. 21.
Monday, Feb. 10
Senate Public Health and Welfare – 8:30 a.m. – Room 142S
Hearing: Senate Bill 126 – Enacting the Physician Assistant Licensure Compact to provide interstate practice privileges for physician assistants
Hearing: Senate Bill 175 – Updating the definition of athletic trainer and providing an exemption for those licensed in another state, District of Columbia, territory or foreign country to practice in Kansas
Senate Financial Institutions and Insurance – 9:30 a.m. – Room 546S
Hearing: Senate Bill 121 – Authorizing the commissioner of insurance to select and announce the version of certain instructions, calculations and documents in effect for the upcoming calendar year and cause such announcement to be published in the Kansas Register, allowing certain life insurers to follow health financial reports and adopting certain provisions from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners Insurance Holding Company System Regulatory Act relating to group capital calculations and liquidity stress testing
House Health and Human Services – 1:30 pm – 112N
Hearing: House Bill 2039 – Amending definitions in the Kansas Credentialing Act to provide that certain entities providing physical therapy, occupational therapy and speech-language pathology are not home health agencies
Hearing: House Bill 2217 – Expanding the scope of the inspector general to audit and investigate all state cash, food or health assistance programs and granting the inspector general the power to subpoena, administer oaths and execute search warrants thereto
Hearing: House Bill 2280 – Clarifying 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, permitting certain ambulance services to offer service for less than 24 hours per day, every day of the year, and requiring entities using automated external defibrillators to register with the emergency medical services board
House Child Welfare and Foster Care (Mon-Wed) – 1:30 pm – 152S
Presentation: Strategies to Address the Needs of Youth with Complex Behavioral Health Needs, Mischa Martin, senior director, Strategic Consulting, Casey Family Programs
House Insurance – 3:30 p.m. – Room 218N
Hearing: House Bill 2244 – Modifying the composition of the Kansas Board of Pharmacy and prohibiting the board of pharmacy from adopting rules and regulations that would limit or condition the use of telepharmacy
Hearing: House Bill 2245 – Transferring officers, employees, powers, duties and functions relating to the Kansas Health Care Benefits Program from the division of the Kansas Employee Health Benefits Plan of the Kansas Department of Administration to the insurance department, establishing the commissioner of insurance as the chairperson of the Kansas State Employees Health Care Commission, providing that all management functions of such commission be administered by the commissioner of insurance and eliminating a pilot program regarding employer contributions for certain children
Hearing: House Bill 2246 – Enacting consumer protection related to the Hospital Price Transparency Act
Tuesday, Feb. 12
Senate Public Health and Welfare – 8:30 a.m. – Room142S
Hearing: Senate Bill 82 – Requiring the secretary for the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services to grant physical environment waivers for certain rural emergency hospitals to provide skilled nursing facility care
Hearing: Senate Bill 88 – Requiring the state long-term care ombudsman and regional ombudsman to receive training in memory care
Senate Government Efficiency – 9:30 a.m. – Room 144S
Hearing: Senate Bill 161 – Requiring legislative approval prior to any state agency seeking or implementing a public assistance program waiver or other authorization from the federal government that expands eligibility for any public assistance program or increases the cost to the state
Senate Judiciary – 10:30 a.m. – Room 346S
Hearing: Senate Bill 127 – Expanding the hearsay exception for statements made to a physician to all health care providers
Hearing: Senate Bill 128 – Creating an exception to certain mandatory reporting obligations for licensed social workers when working under the supervision of an attorney and permitting an attorney to require a licensed social worker to keep ethical obligations of attorney-client privilege while working under the supervision of such attorney
Senate Ways and Means – 10:30 a.m. – Room 548S
Briefing by staff: House Appropriations Committee budget action
House Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications – 9:00 a.m. – Room 582N
Final action: House Bill 2110 – Eliminating the requirement that the Kansas 911 Board shall contract with a local collection point administrator for services, rescheduling the date on which the Kansas 911 Operations Fund, Kansas 911 Grant Fund and Kansas 911 Fund shall be established, requiring certain transfers to be made to the Kansas 911 Operations Fund and rescheduling the date for transferring all 911 fee moneys currently held outside the Kansas Treasury to the Kansas Treasury
House Health and Human Services – 1:30 p.m. – Room 112N
Hearing: House Bill 2218 – Amending the definition of "psilocybin" in the Uniform Controlled Substances Act to exclude the pharmaceutical composition of crystalline polymorph psilocybin and adding crystalline polymorph psilocybin to Schedule IV of the Uniformed Controlled Substance Act
Hearing: House Bill 2159 – Creating the Emergency Opioid Antagonists Assistance Grant Fund to provide emergency opioid antagonists to law enforcement agencies and removing law enforcement from the Kansas Board of Pharmacy's Statewide Opioid Antagonist Protocol
Hearing: House Bill 2170 – Designating the first full week of February as Kansas Burn Awareness Week
House Welfare Reform – 1:30 p.m. – Room 152S
Hearing: House Bill 2240 – Requiring legislative approval of any Medicaid state plan, state plan amendment, demonstration or waiver that expands coverage or increases the cost to the state
Wednesday, Feb. 12
Senate Public Health and Welfare – 8:30 am –142S
Hearing: Senate Bill 193 – Removing law enforcement agencies and officers from the Kansas Board of Pharmacy's Statewide Opioid Antagonist Protocol
Hearing: Senate Bill 145 – Requiring immediate notification of a report of abuse or neglect to a law enforcement agency and providing for law enforcement agencies to request resources from the secretary for children and families
Senate Government Efficiency – 9:30 a.m. – Room 144S
Hearing: Senate Bill 99 – Requiring the head of each state agency to certify the number of full-time positions paid from the State General Fund that have been vacant for more than 180 calendar days and the secretary of administration to abolish such positions and lapsing State General Fund appropriations for such positions for fiscal year 2026
House Health and Human Services –1:30 p.m. – Room 112N
Hearing: House Bill 2249 – Requiring the secretary for the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services to grant physical environment waivers for certain rural emergency hospitals to provide skilled nursing facility care
Hearing: House Bill 2307 – Transferring the power to authorize and oversee certain activities regarding prenatal and postnatal diagnosed conditions awareness programs from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment to the Kansas Council on developmental disabilities
Thursday, Feb. 13
Senate Public Health and Welfare – 8:30 a.m. – Room 142S
Hearing: Senate Bill 67 – Authorizing registered nurse anesthetists to engage in independent practice and prescribe drugs and prohibiting registered nurse anesthetists from performing an abortion or prescribing drugs to induce an abortion
House Health and Human Services –1:30 p.m. – Room 112N
Hearing: House Bill 2219 – Enacting the Physician Assistant Licensure Compact to provide interstate practice privileges for physician assistants
Hearing: House Bill 2266 – Enacting the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Licensure Compact to provide interstate practice privileges for advanced practice registered nurses
Hearing: House Bill 2216 – Requiring the Kansas Department of Health and Environment to create an informational video describing abortion laws in Kansas
Friday, Feb. 14
Senate Public Health and Welfare – 8:30 a.m. – Room 142S
Final action on bills previously heard
House Federal and State Affairs – 9:00 a.m. – Room 346S
Hearing: House Bill 2146 – Increasing transfers from the Lottery Operating Fund, to the Community Crisis Stabilization Centers Fund and the Clubhouse Model Program Fund of the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services