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Health and Human Services

  • Committee Assistant: David Long 785-296-7488
  • David.Long@house.ks.gov

    • Meeting Day: Daily Time: 1:30 pm Location: 112-N

    Room 112-N Audio Stream

    Bills, Resolutions and Appointments

    Bills In Committee
    SB77 - Enacting the audiology and speech-language pathology interstate compact.
    SB170 - Making permanent provisions for the advisory committee on trauma and the statewide trauma system regional council to conduct closed meetings and keep privileged records regarding trauma cases.
    SB175 - Enacting the rural emergency hospital act to provide for the licensure of rural emergency hospitals.
    HB2157 - Establishing restrictions on the use of step therapy protocols by health insurance plans.
    HB2159 - Permitting the administration of certain tests, questionnaires, surveys and examinations regarding student beliefs and practices on an opt-out basis and providing conditions therefor.
    HB2161 - Renaming the Kansas state board of cosmetology, creating new categories of licenses issued thereby and extending the board's enforcement authority to non-licensees.
    HB2179 - Providing for the licensure of dental therapists.
    HB2202 - Enacting the Kansas death with dignity act.
    HB2207 - Prohibiting certain licensed individuals from using conversion therapy on minors.
    HB2210 - Making it a crime for a doctor to perform gender reassignment surgery or hormone replacement therapy on minors.
    HB2255 - Enacting the sexual assault survivor information act to require certain entities to provide information to sexual assault survivors.
    HB2256 - Updating scope of practice requirements for advanced practice registered nurses without a supervising physician, imposing requirements therefor and updating certain licensure requirements.
    HB2257 - Permitting physicians to decide based on their medical judgment whether to provide patients with certain information.
    HB2258 - Enacting the right to family planning act to require contraceptives to be available at pharmacies.
    HB2260 - Prohibiting disparate treatment by pharmacy benefits managers of certain pharmacies and pharmaceutical services providers.
    HB2327 - Prohibiting county boards, trustees or employees from restricting visitors of residents of a county home for the aged or patients in a county hospital.
    HB2342 - Allowing pharmacists to prescribe and fill prescriptions for self-administered contraceptives.
    HB2372 - Establishing a medicaid ambulance service provider assessment to be imposed on ground ambulance service providers.
    HB2384 - Establishing the advisory committee on harm reduction to advise KDHE on reducing incidents of harm to individuals in the state.
    HB2385 - Expanding the pharmacist's scope of practice to include point-of-care testing for and treatment of certain health conditions.
    HB2386 - Establishing requirements for the payment and reimbursement of dental services by a dental benefit plan.
    HB2400 - Enacting the massage therapist licensure act, to provide for regulation and licensing of massage therapists.
    Sponsored Bills
    HB2157 - Establishing restrictions on the use of step therapy protocols by health insurance plans.
    HB2158 - Making permanent provisions for the advisory committee on trauma and the statewide trauma system regional council to conduct closed meetings and keep privileged records regarding trauma cases.
    HB2159 - Permitting the administration of certain tests, questionnaires, surveys and examinations regarding student beliefs and practices on an opt-out basis and providing conditions therefor.
    HB2160 - Establishing certification and funding for certified community behavioral health clinics.
    HB2161 - Renaming the Kansas state board of cosmetology, creating new categories of licenses issued thereby and extending the board's enforcement authority to non-licensees.
    HB2179 - Providing for the licensure of dental therapists.
    HB2206 - Updating certain definitions, referral to specialty services and coordination of care provisions in the Kansas telemedicine act.
    HB2207 - Prohibiting certain licensed individuals from using conversion therapy on minors.
    HB2208 - Authorizing telemedicine waivers for out-of-state healthcare providers, reducing certain requirements for licensure by the behavioral sciences regulatory board and expanding out-of-state temporary permits to practice behavioral sciences professions.
    HB2209 - Enacting the psychology interjurisdictional compact to provide for interjurisdictional authorization to practice telepsychology and temporary in-person, face-to-face psychology.
    HB2234 - Requiring medical directors of emergency medical services to provide medical oversight of such services and emergency medical service providers.
    HB2254 - Increasing the monetary cap on irrevocable prearranged funeral agreements to $10,000.
    HB2255 - Enacting the sexual assault survivor information act to require certain entities to provide information to sexual assault survivors.
    HB2256 - Updating scope of practice requirements for advanced practice registered nurses without a supervising physician, imposing requirements therefor and updating certain licensure requirements.
    HB2257 - Permitting physicians to decide based on their medical judgment whether to provide patients with certain information.
    HB2258 - Enacting the right to family planning act to require contraceptives to be available at pharmacies.
    HB2259 - Permitting the use of expedited partner therapy to treat a sexually transmitted disease.
    HB2260 - Prohibiting disparate treatment by pharmacy benefits managers of certain pharmacies and pharmaceutical services providers.
    HB2261 - Enacting the rural emergency hospital act to provide for the licensure of rural emergency hospitals.
    HB2262 - Eliminating the requirement to provide a permit to cremate in certain circumstances and authorizing electronic permits to cremate.
    HB2279 - Enacting the physical therapy licensure compact and authorizing criminal history record checks.
    HB2280 - Updating statutes relating to the powers, duties and functions of the state board of pharmacy.
    HB2281 - Establishing and implementing 988 as the suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline in Kansas.
    HB2372 - Establishing a medicaid ambulance service provider assessment to be imposed on ground ambulance service providers.
    HB2373 - Requiring the Kansas department for aging and disability services to establish and implement a mobile crisis services program for individuals with intellectual or developmental disability.
    HB2384 - Establishing the advisory committee on harm reduction to advise KDHE on reducing incidents of harm to individuals in the state.
    HB2385 - Expanding the pharmacist's scope of practice to include point-of-care testing for and treatment of certain health conditions.
    HB2386 - Establishing requirements for the payment and reimbursement of dental services by a dental benefit plan.
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