Kansas - Session 2025-2026
Title: HB2532 - Establishing an impaired provider program, expanding the grounds for disciplinary action against a licensee and providing for the reinstatement of a revoked license under the Kansas nurse practice act.
AN ACT concerning health and healthcare; relating to the powers, duties and functions of the Kansas state board of nursing; establishing an impaired provider program; expanding the grounds for disciplinary action taken against a licensee; permitting deferred disciplinary action against an impaired licensee; providing for the reinstatement of a revoked license; amending K.S.A. 65-1120a, 65-1121a and 65-1129 and K.S.A. 2025 Supp. 65-1117 and 65-1120 and repealing the existing sections; also repealing K.S.A. 74-1110.
| Date | Event | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-23 | Introduced | Bill introduced |
| 2026-01-23 | Status | in_committee |
| 2026-01-23 | Latest Action | Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services |
| Bill | Title | Status |
|---|---|---|
| HB 2068 | HB2068 - Enacting the cosmetology compact to provide interstate practice privileges. | enrolled |
| HB 2250 | HB2250 - Substitute for HB 2250 - Defining emergency opioid antagonist as including an expired emergency opioid antagonist for a person rendering aid to another in reasonable need of medical assistance and permitting a first responder to distribute and administer an expired emergency opioid antagonists. | enrolled |
| HB 2365 | HB2365 - Establishing the south central regional mental health hospital. | enrolled |
| HB 2509 | HB2509 - Adding advanced practice registered nurse to the definition of healthcare provider for purposes of the healthcare provider insurance availability act and adding an advanced practice registered nurse position to the board of governors of the healthcare stabilization fund. | enrolled |
| HB 2587 | HB2587 - Authorizing a licensed private psychiatric hospital to maintain a stock supply of emergency medication kits for pharmaceutical emergencies. | enrolled |
| HB 2731 | HB2731 - Substitute for HB 2731 by Committee on Welfare Reform - Requiring the department for children and families and the office of inspector general to exchange information and documents related to cash assistance, childcare assistance and food assistance fraud investigations. | 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 2727 | HB2727 - Providing for the plaintiff to elect to limit recovery in claims brought for violations of the woman's-right-to-know act and making the laws providing for medical malpractice screening inapplicable when such election is made. | enrolled |