Kansas - Session 2025-2026
Title: SB207 - Requiring the Kansas children's cabinet and the department of health and environment to implement a pilot program to offer health services, telehealth consultations and medication reimbursements to child care providers, while prohibiting stricter local regulations, allowing local registration of providers, increasing state funding for the child and adult care food program and providing free training and education materials to providers.
AN ACT concerning child care; relating to the department of administration, the Kansas children's cabinet and the department of health and environment; establishing a pilot program to provide health services to child care providers; making telehealth consultation services available to eligible child care providers; providing up to $100 per month in reimbursements for prescription medication costs to child care providers accepted into the health services program; prohibiting cities, counties or other political subdivisions from regulating licensed child care providers more strictly than state law; requiring the department of health and environment to provide a list of licensed child care providers to any city, county or other political subdivision upon request; providing any licensed in-home or group-home child care providers that receive a lower tier of reimbursement under the child and adult care food program to be matched with the top tier of funding that is otherwise made available to other providers under the program; developing and providing free orientation and training programs and training materials to child care providers and licensees; allowing orientation and training to count as continuing education hours; requiring the department and the Kansas children's cabinet to develop a training reimbursement program; amending K.S.A. 65-508 and repealing the existing section.
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| Date | Event | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-02-05 | Introduced | Bill introduced |
| 2025-02-06 | Status | in_committee |
| 2025-02-06 | Latest Action | Referred to Committee on Public Health and Welfare |
| 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 2479 | HB2479 - Authorizing electronic monitoring with victim notification as a condition of release prior to trial for certain offenders charged with a domestic violence offense, domestic battery, stalking or violation of a protective order. | enrolled |
| HB 2482 | HB2482 - Removing the requirement that the state board of education use a certain exam provider to deliver certain college entrance and career readiness exams and requiring the board to provide for such exams using any provider. | 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. | enrolled |
| HB 2534 | HB2534 - Enacting the respiratory care interstate compact to provide interstate practice privileges to respiratory therapists. | enrolled |
| 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. | enrolled |
| HB 2596 | HB2596 - Permitting the secretary of corrections to enter into certain contracts for the production of manufactured or modular homes for a pilot program at the Hutchinson correctional facility under the prison-made goods act. | enrolled |