Kansas - Session 2025-2026
Title: HB2310 - Enacting the career advancement, resources, employment and supports for the disability workforce act, providing for career education programs for students and career enhancement programs for professionals, requiring performance-based contracting for disability services providers, facilitating choice in services by individuals with disabilities, mandating rate parity across all state waiver programs, providing for an online data portal system for waitlist management and services-related communications, requiring the secretary of labor to publish information regarding the disability service provider workforce and providing that direct support workers may be covered by the state health plan.
AN ACT concerning individuals with developmental or intellectual disabilities and direct support workers; enacting the career advancement, resources, employment and supports for the disability workforce act, providing for the development of career education programs and other efforts by the secretary for aging and disability services to encourage the growth of support for individuals with disabilities as a profession; requiring the secretary to develop career education and enhancement programs for such professionals; mandating performance-based contracting for managed care organizations and other disability services providers; providing for the development of processes and procedures that facilitate choice by individuals with disabilities of service providers and the nature of the service; requiring rate parity across all state waiver programs; requiring the secretary to develop and implement an online data portal system for the management of waitlists and the provision of information to and communication with individuals with disabilities on a waitlist or receiving services through a waiver program administered by the secretary; requiring the secretary of labor to initiate or enhance classification of and information regarding the disability service provider workforce and publish such information; providing that certain direct support workers may be covered by the state health plan; amending K.S.A. 75-6506 and repealing the existing section.
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| Date | Event | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-02-06 | Introduced | Bill introduced |
| 2025-02-07 | Status | in_committee |
| 2025-02-07 | Latest Action | Hearing: Tuesday, February 11, 2025, 1:30 PM Room 346-S |
| Bill | Title | Status |
|---|---|---|
| HB 2560 | HB2560 - Authorizing the state board of regents to sell and convey certain real property in the city of Manhattan, Riley county, Kansas, on behalf of Kansas state university. | in_committee |
| HB 2164 | HB2164 - Senate Substitute for HB 2164 by Committee on Judiciary - Prohibiting certain sex offenders from entering onto school property or attending school activities and creating criminal penalties for violation thereof. | in_committee |
| HB 2320 | HB2320 - Authorizing children in the custody of the secretary of the department for children and families to attend school in any school district, requiring records for such students to be timely transferred between school districts and requiring a transportation plan if the child remains in the school of origin. | enrolled |
| HB 2331 | HB2331 - Authorizing the disposition of the unclaimed remains of deceased persons by district coroners and providing exemptions from liability for such actions. | enrolled |
| HB 2374 | HB2374 - Creating the specialty practice student loan program and the specialty practice student loan repayment fund, allowing for the transfer of funds from the OBGYN and psychiatry medical student loan repayment funds to the specialty practice student loan repayment fund and abolishing the OBGYN and psychiatry medical student loan repayment funds. | enrolled |
| HB 2402 | HB2402 - Senate Substitute for HB 2402 by Committee on Education - Requiring eligible boards of education to consider participation in the community eligibility provision, providing a financial hardship exception to such participation and requiring the state department of education to assist school districts seeking such participation. | in_committee |
| HB 2468 | HB2468 - Electing to participate in the federal tax credit for individual contributions to scholarship granting organizations and increasing the aggregate tax credit limit on the tax credit for low income students scholarship program. | enrolled |
| HB 2485 | HB2485 - Authorizing the chief executive officer of the state board of regents to negotiate and settle any repayment obligations arising under any scholarship, grant or other financial aid program administered by the board and prohibiting the payment of additional funds to any student who is subject to repayment obligations under such financial aid programs. | in_committee |