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House Committee on 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
    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.
    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.
    HB2174 - Establishing the rural hospital innovation grant program to assist rural hospitals in serving rural communities.
    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.
    HB2281 - Establishing and implementing 988 as the suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline in Kansas.
    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.
    HB2459 - Enacting the Kansas health act and creating a universal single-payer guaranteed healthcare coverage program.
    HB2460 - Mandating coverage of certain diagnostic services for breast cancer and making and concerning appropriations for fiscal years ending June 30, 2023, June 30, 2023 and June 30, 2024.
    HB2463 - Prohibiting changes to the medical assistance program and requiring the extension of the current medical assistance program.
    HB2498 - Prohibiting the secretary of health and environment from requiring COVID-19 vaccination for children attending school.
    Resolutions In Committee
    HCR5024 - Proposing to amend the constitution of the state of Kansas to provide medical assistance eligibility to the extent authorized under federal law.
    Sponsored Bills
    HB2157 - Establishing restrictions on the use of step therapy protocols by health insurance plans.
    HB2158 - Establishing the joint committee on child welfare system oversight, providing certain exceptions to the confidentiality of state child death review board documents, requiring visual observation of an alleged victim of child abuse or neglect as part of an investigation, exempting the caregiver of a child in state out-of-home placement from the child care assistance 20-hour-per-week work requirement, permitting the secretary for children and families to license certain family foster homes where a former foster care youth with certain juvenile adjudications resides 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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