Policy-focused browsing for Kansas legislation.
| Bill | Title | Status | Sponsor |
|---|---|---|---|
| HB 2070 |
HB2070 - Enacting the dietitian licensure compact to provide interstate practice privileges for dietitians. 2025-2026 | House
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in_committee | House Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development |
| HB 2219 |
HB2219 - Enacting the physician assistant licensure compact to provide interstate practice privileges for physician assistants. 2025-2026 | House
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in_committee | House Committee on Health and Human Services |
| HB 2245 |
HB2245 - Transferring officers, employees, powers, duties and functions relating to the state health care benefits program from the division of the state employee health benefits plan of the 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. 2025-2026 | House
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in_committee | House Committee on Insurance |
| HB 2246 |
HB2246 - Enacting the consumer protection related to hospital price transparency act. 2025-2026 | House
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in_committee | House Committee on Insurance |
| HB 2365 |
HB2365 - Adding and removing certain substances in schedules I, III and IV of the uniform controlled substances act and making conforming changes to the criminal code definition of fentanyl-related controlled substances. 2025-2026 | House
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enacted | House Committee on Health and Human Services |
| HB 2390 |
HB2390 - Providing countywide retailers' sales tax authority for Jackson county for the purpose of supporting hospital services in the county. 2025-2026 | House
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in_committee | House Committee on Taxation |
| HB 2587 |
HB2587 - Authorizing a licensed private psychiatric hospital to maintain a stock supply of emergency medication kits for pharmaceutical emergencies. 2025-2026 | House
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vetoed | House Committee on Health and Human Services |
| HB 2676 |
HB2676 - Permitting a pharmacist to initiate therapy for certain conditions consistent with the pharmacist's education, training and experience, adding pharmacists who initiate such therapy to the healthcare stabilization fund and allowing a pharmacist to dispense a one-time emergency refill of a noncontrolled prescription drug for up to a 90-day supply when no refills remain. 2025-2026 | House
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in_committee | House Committee on Health and Human Services |
| HB 2731 |
HB2731 - Requiring the department of health and environment in coordination with the Kansas department for aging and disability services to seek federal approval to establish continuous medicaid eligibility for certain individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities who are receiving services through a home and community based services waiver, requiring the secretary for children and families and the secretary of health and environment to enter into data-matching agreements with state agencies to verify eligibility for food and medical assistance, directing the department of health and environment to submit certain data to the centers for medicare and medicaid services, prohibiting certain public assistance program waivers or exemptions without legislative approval, prohibiting self-attestation for purposes of determining eligibility for public assistance programs, limiting retroactive enrollment in the medical assistance program, increasing the age limit for able-bodied adults without certain dependents and prohibiting certain exemptions from work requirements under the food assistance program. 2025-2026 | House
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enacted | House Committee on Welfare Reform |
| HB 2740 |
HB2740 - Adopting compounding standards established by the United States pharmacopeia and allowing for exemptions from such standards. 2025-2026 | House
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in_committee | House Committee on Health and Human Services |
| SB 127 |
SB127 - Expanding the hearsay exception for statements made to a physician to all healthcare providers. 2025-2026 | Senate
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failed | Senate Committee on Judiciary |
| SB 150 |
SB150 - Prohibiting the denial of coverage for the refilling of prescription topical eye medication. 2025-2026 | Senate
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failed | Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare |
| SB 151 |
SB151 - Requiring the secretary of health and environment to request a waiver from the United States centers for medicare and medicaid services to end participation in certain expenditure authorities under the KanCare demonstration. 2025-2026 | Senate
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failed | Senate Committee on Government Efficiency |
| SB 182 |
SB182 - Enacting the Kansas medical loss ratios for dental healthcare services plans act. 2025-2026 | Senate
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failed | Senate Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance |
| SB 189 |
SB189 - Providing injured employees the freedom of choice to designate their healthcare provider and requiring the employer to pay for the services of such healthcare provider with regard to workers compensation. 2025-2026 | Senate
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failed | Sen. Dinah Sykes |
| SB 19 |
SB19 - Enacting the conscientious right to refuse act to prohibit discrimination against individuals who refuse medical care and creating a civil cause of action based on such discrimination and revoking the authority of the secretary of health and environment to quarantine individuals and impose associated penalties. 2025-2026 | Senate
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failed | Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare |
| SB 212 |
SB212 - Enacting the prescription drug cost and affordability review act to establish the prescription drug pricing board and prescription drug affordability stakeholder council to review the cost of prescription medications and establish upper payment limits for certain prescription drugs. 2025-2026 | Senate
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failed | Sen. Dinah Sykes |
| SB 224 |
SB224 - Providing for the preceptor income tax incentive act, establishing an income tax credit for nursing home administrators, registered nurses and registered dietitians that serve as a community-based faculty preceptor in adult care homes and medical care facilities by providing personalized instruction, training and supervision for students. 2025-2026 | Senate
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failed | Senate Committee on Assessment and Taxation |
| SB 228 |
SB228 - Providing for the regulation of supplemental nursing services agencies and healthcare workers platforms by the secretary for aging and disability services. 2025-2026 | Senate
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failed | Senate Committee on Ways and Means |
| SB 234 |
SB234 - Prohibiting the use of genetic sequencers or operational software used for genetic analysis that is produced in a foreign adversary. 2025-2026 | Senate
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failed | Senate Committee on Federal and State Affairs |
| SB 249 |
SB249 - Establishing the fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) advisory committee to prevent FASD and provide for treatment and support for affected individuals and their families. 2025-2026 | Senate
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failed | Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare |
| SB 251 |
SB251 - Requiring the department of health and environment to submit an annual report to the legislature concerning the newborn screening program. 2025-2026 | Senate
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failed | Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare |
| SB 257 |
SB257 - Expanding medical assistance eligibility and enacting the healthcare access for working Kansans (HAWK) act. 2025-2026 | Senate
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failed | Senate Committee on Ways and Means |
| SB 276 |
SB276 - Removing the state fire marshal from the adult care home licensure act and the providers of disability services act and requiring the state fire marshal to complete training in person-centered care and responding to individuals with Alzheimer's disease and intellectual and developmental disabilities. 2025-2026 | Senate
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failed | Senate Committee on Federal and State Affairs |
| SB 294 |
SB294 - Enacting the Kansas medical cannabis act to authorize the cultivation, processing, distribution, sale and use of medical cannabis and medical cannabis products. 2025-2026 | Senate
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failed | Senate Committee on Federal and State Affairs |