Policy-focused browsing for Kansas legislation.
| Bill | Title | Status | Sponsor |
|---|---|---|---|
| SB 3 |
SB3 - Requiring the department of health and environment to audit hospital compliance with the lay caregiver act and report the results of such audit to the legislature. 2025-2026 | Senate
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failed | Legislative Post Audit Committee |
| SB 328 |
SB328 - Permitting a pharmacist to distribute pre-measured doses of epinephrine to a school for emergency medication kits. 2025-2026 | Senate
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in_committee | Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare |
| SB 330 |
SB330 - Enacting the ensuring transparency in prior authorization act to impose requirements and limitations on the use of prior authorization in healthcare. 2025-2026 | Senate
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failed | Senate Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance |
| SB 379 |
SB379 - Authorizing the state 911 board to establish a statewide program for emergency medical dispatch and telecommunicator cardiopulmonary resuscitation, medical direction and quality assurance services. 2025-2026 | Senate
|
in_committee | Senate Committee on Utilities |
| SB 363 |
SB363 - Requiring the department of health and environment (KDHE) to seek federal approval for continuous medicaid eligibility for certain individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities receiving services through a home and community based services waiver, directing state agencies to report to certain legislative committees on Kansans losing public assistance program eligibility, requiring the Kansas department for children and families and KDHE to enter into data-matching agreements with state agencies to verify eligibility for food and medical assistance and KDHE to submit certain data to the centers for medicare and medicaid services, prohibiting certain public assistance waivers or exemptions without legislative approval and self-attestation for purposes of determining eligibility for public assistance, requiring quarterly eligibility redeterminations for medical assistance and providing exceptions for certain individuals, limiting retroactive enrollment in medical assistance, immediately terminating eligibility for medical assistance upon confirmation of death of the enrollee, 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 | Senate
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failed | Senate Committee on Government Efficiency |
| SB 405 |
SB405 - Making it unlawful for a person to knowingly train artificial intelligence to encourage or support suicide or the unlawful killing of another person, provide emotional support, develop emotional relationships, act as a healthcare professional, simulate humans or encourage isolation. 2025-2026 | Senate
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failed | Senate Committee on Federal and State Affairs |
| SB 41 |
SB41 - Adding advanced practice registered nurses to the definition of healthcare provider for purposes of the healthcare provider insurance availability act. 2025-2026 | Senate
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failed | Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare |
| SB 431 |
SB431 - Establishing the remote practice of pharmacy, requiring certain conditions for such practice and limiting activities performed under such practice. 2025-2026 | Senate
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in_committee | Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare |
| SB 457 |
SB457 - Establishing the Affordable Healthcare for Kansans program to expand medicaid eligibility. 2025-2026 | Senate
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failed | Senate Committee on Education |
| SB 467 |
SB467 - Enacting the use of artificial intelligence in medical decisions transparency act and requiring that all medical necessity determinations be made by a competent licensed physician or healthcare professional. 2025-2026 | Senate
|
failed | Sen. Cindy Holscher |
| SB 475 |
SB475 - Requiring hospitals use a surgical smoke plume evacuation system and adopt policies for the evacuation of surgical smoke during certain surgical procedures. 2025-2026 | Senate
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failed | Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare |
| SB 504 |
SB504 - Enacting the Kansas healthcare professional employment mobility and patient access act to prohibit post-employment noncompete agreements. 2025-2026 | Senate
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failed | Senate Committee on Federal and State Affairs |
| SB 522 |
SB522 - Enacting the Kansas medical freedom act to prohibit the denial of an individual's access to certain services based on such individual's medical choices. 2025-2026 | Senate
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failed | Senate Committee on Federal and State Affairs |
| SB 528 |
SB528 - Enacting the Kansas municipal self-funded medical and prescription drug insurance pool act and establishing certain reserve, maximum exposure funding and reporting requirements for municipal self-funded medical and prescription drug insurance pools. 2025-2026 | Senate
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failed | Senate Committee on Federal and State Affairs |
| HB 2068 |
HB2068 - Establishing the remote practice of pharmacy, requiring certain conditions for such practice and limiting activities performed under such practice, 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, adopting compounding standards established by the United States pharmacopeia and allowing for exemptions from such standards and removing the authority of the state board of pharmacy to authorize individuals to access the prescription monitoring program database by rules and regulations. 2025-2026 | House
|
enacted | House Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development |
| HB 2250 |
HB2250 - Permitting the use of expedited partner therapy to treat sexually transmitted infections, authorizing a licensed private psychiatric hospital to maintain a stock supply of emergency medication kits for pharmaceutical emergencies, allowing expired emergency opioid antagonists to be used to treat an opioid overdose, permitting first responders to distribute and administer expired emergency opioid antagonists, permitting a pharmacist to distribute epinephrine delivery systems to a school for use in emergency medication kits and amending definitions related to medication in schools to allow for use of epinephrine delivery systems. 2025-2026 | House
|
enacted | House Committee on Health and Human Services |
| HB 2369 |
HB2369 - Allowing pharmacists to administer certain vaccines to children and adults pursuant to a vaccination protocol. 2025-2026 | House
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in_committee | House Committee on Health and Human Services |
| 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. 2025-2026 | House
|
enacted | House Committee on Appropriations |
| HB 2509 |
HB2509 - Allowing licensed physical therapists to perform certain capillary blood tests, adding advanced practice registered nurse to the definition of healthcare provider for purposes of the healthcare provider insurance availability act, adding an advanced practice registered nurse position to the board of governors of the healthcare stabilization fund and requiring advance practice registered nurses to maintain professional liability insurance as a condition of active licensure. 2025-2026 | House
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enacted | House Committee on Health and Human Services |
| HB 2600 |
HB2600 - Establishing the Affordable Healthcare for Kansans program to expand medicaid eligibility. 2025-2026 | House
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in_committee | Rep. Suzanne Wikle |
| HB 2695 |
HB2695 - Enacting the enhanced oversight and accountability for the prescription of psychotropic drug prescriptions act to require the secretary of health and environment to establish an online reporting system for adverse drug reactions. 2025-2026 | House
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in_committee | Rep. Steven K. Howe |
| HB 2702 |
HB2702 - Providing that applicants for a physician assistant license submit to a criminal record check, providing for the collaboration between physicians and physician assistants and requiring the revocation of a physician assistant license under certain circumstances. 2025-2026 | House
|
enacted | House Committee on Health and Human Services |
| 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. 2025-2026 | House
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enacted | House Committee on Federal and State Affairs |
| HB 2785 |
HB2785 - Renaming the medication donation program providing for the registration of qualifying centers to accept, administer, supply or dispense certain donated drugs or devices. 2025-2026 | House
|
in_committee | House Committee on Appropriations |
| HB 2635 |
HB2635 - Enacting the pregnancy center autonomy and rights of expression act to protect the ability of private pregnancy centers to provide life-affirming care. 2025-2026 | House
|
enacted | House Committee on Federal and State Affairs |