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(April 5, 2024) – The KHA Bill Tracker is designed to keep you up-to-date on current legislation. KHA will update and share this document weekly while the legislators are in session.
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(April 4, 2024) – Today, the subcommittee of Appropriations members studying the issue of supplemental nurse staffing agencies made recommendations.
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(April 4, 2024) – Today, the House and Senate took up conference committee reports, which are straight up or down votes on CCR on SB 356, CCR on HB 2498, CCR on Sen. Sub. for HB 2036. Late yesterday, the House and Senate Local Government Conference Committee agreed to compromise to SB 384.
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(April 3, 2024) – Today, the Budget Conference Committee, made up of House and Senate members, continued to work through the list of items with differences in the budget bill.
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(April 3, 2024) – Today, the subcommittee of the Appropriations Committee heard from Blake Flanders, Kansas Board of Regents; Heather Morgan, Kansas Community College Association; Jim Genandtt, Kansas Association for Career and Technical Education; Carol Moreland, Kansas Board of Nursing; Kyle Kessler, Association of Community Mental Health Centers; Jaron Caffrey, KHA; Kylee Childs, LeadingAge Kansas; and Amy Garcia, Kansas Nursing Workforce Center.
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(April 2, 2024) – Yesterday, saw the first of a three-day sub-committee discussion, made up of House Appropriations members including Chairman Les Mason (R-McPherson), Brenda Landwehr (R-Wichita), Barbara Ballard (D-Lawrence), Susan Concannon (R-Beloit) and Henry Helgerson (D-Wichita).
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(April 2, 2024) – As the House and Senate Conference Committees continue to meet, there are several bills that have received motions to concur on changes made in the second chamber that will send those bills to the governor’s desk.
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(April 2, 2024) – Today, the House and Senate Health conference committee met. The Senate Financial Institutions and Insurance Conference committee met with the House Insurance Committee to discuss bills among them. The education conference committees met and agreed to add the provisions of HB 2645 (nurse service scholarship program) into SB 438, along with other packaged bills. The budget conference committee members continue to work through differences between the chamber positions.
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(Mar. 29, 2024) – Next week, the House and Senate will return to work through conference committee items that have differences between the House and Senate positions.
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(Mar. 28, 2024) – Today, the Senate Federal and State Committee held a hearing on SB 555.
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