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Public Health and Welfare

  • Committee Assistant: Donola Fairbanks 785-296-5123
  • Donola.Fairbanks@Senate.ks.gov

    • Meeting Day: Daily Time: 8:30 am Location: 142-S

    Room 142-S Audio Stream

    Bills, Resolutions and Appointments

    Bills In Committee
    SB12 - Requiring the Kansas department for children and families to implement performance-based contracts.
    SB41 - Establishing a $100 maximum out-of-pocket cost-share per month per covered person for prescription insulin drugs.
    SB42 - Concerning the study and investigation of maternal deaths in the state of Kansas.
    SB92 - Creating the Kansas equal access act to authorize the use of medical marijuana.
    SB121 - Updating certain provisions of the Kansas dental practice act.
    SB129 - Providing for the licensure of dental therapists.
    SB138 - Establishing certification and funding for certified community behavioral health clinics.
    SB155 - Expanding newborn screening services and increasing transfers from the medical assistance fee fund to the Kansas newborn screening fund.
    SB168 - Updating certain provisions of the prescription monitoring program act relating to program data, storage and access, increasing the membership of the advisory committee and providing for setup and annual maintenance fees for program data integration
    SB200 - Expanding the pharmacist's scope of practice to include point-of-care testing for and treatment of certain health conditions.
    SB207 - Providing additional regulation and restrictions for out-of-state doctors to practice telemedicine in the state of Kansas.
    SB211 - Allowing physicians to have patients sign a liability waiver for off-label use of prescription drugs.
    SB212 - Prohibiting the secretary of health and environment from permanently requiring additional immunizations to attend a child care facility or school.
    SB227 - Providing dental benefits for medicaid enrollees and making technical updates to the dental practices act.
    SB237 - Requiring the secretary of health and environment to establish a task force to study and report on uncompensated healthcare.
    SB239 - Authorizing the secretary for children and families to request a waiver from certain limitations under the food assistance program.
    SB240 - Requiring drug rebate revenues associated with medical assistance enrollees to be deposited into the state general fund and monthly reporting thereof.
    SB241 - Allowing a child placed up for adoption following termination of parental rights to remain eligible for state-provided health insurance.
    SB248 - Updating certain definitions, referral to specialty services and coordination of care provisions in the Kansas telemedicine act.
    SB251 - Updating statutes relating to the powers, duties and functions of the state board of pharmacy.
    SB274 - Amending the scope of practice, discipline by the board, and license renewal procedures for naturopathic doctors.
    SB275 - Allowing naturopathic doctors to engage in the corporate practice of medicine.
    SB276 - Providing considerations in family law, adoption, foster care, guardianship and child in need of care proceedings for a parent or prospective parent who is blind.
    HB2062 - Providing certain exceptions to the confidentiality of state child death review board documents.
    HB2114 - Establishing the Kansas senior care task force.
    HB2115 - Establishing the joint committee on child welfare system oversight.
    HB2151 - Creating Kansas elder and dependent adult abuse multidisciplinary teams and a coordinator.
    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.
    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.
    HB2259 - Permitting the use of expedited partner therapy to treat a sexually transmitted disease.
    HB2262 - Eliminating the requirement to provide a permit to cremate in certain circumstances and authorizing electronic permits to cremate.
    Sponsored Bills
    SB77 - Enacting the audiology and speech-language pathology interstate compact.
    SB83 - Allowing certain exceptions to the confidentiality of state child death review board documents.
    SB85 - Requiring notification to the governor and the legislature of missing foster care youth.
    SB120 - Establishing the joint committee on child welfare system oversight.
    SB121 - Updating certain provisions of the Kansas dental practice act.
    SB128 - Prohibiting disparate treatment by pharmacy benefits managers of certain pharmacies and pharmaceutical services providers.
    SB129 - Providing for the licensure of dental therapists.
    SB138 - Establishing certification and funding for certified community behavioral health clinics.
    SB139 - Permitting the administration of certain tests, questionnaires, surveys and examinations regarding student beliefs and practices on an opt-out basis and providing conditions therefor.
    SB174 - Updating scope of practice requirements for advanced practice registered nurses without a supervising physician, imposing requirements therefor and updating certain licensure requirements.
    SB175 - Enacting the rural emergency hospital act to provide for the licensure of rural emergency hospitals.
    SB199 - Providing for short-term, limited-duration health plans.
    SB200 - Expanding the pharmacist's scope of practice to include point-of-care testing for and treatment of certain health conditions.
    SB227 - Providing dental benefits for medicaid enrollees and making technical updates to the dental practices act.
    SB237 - Requiring the secretary of health and environment to establish a task force to study and report on uncompensated healthcare.
    SB238 - Establishing certification and funding for certified community behavioral health clinics, 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.
    SB239 - Authorizing the secretary for children and families to request a waiver from certain limitations under the food assistance program.
    SB240 - Requiring drug rebate revenues associated with medical assistance enrollees to be deposited into the state general fund and monthly reporting thereof.
    SB241 - Allowing a child placed up for adoption following termination of parental rights to remain eligible for state-provided health insurance.
    Sponsored Resolutions - 2021 Legislative Session
    SR1707 - Recognizing the need to administer the COVID-19 vaccine.
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    • 2021. Powered by KLISS. Rendered: 2021-03-09T00:22:46. Head Rev No: 242398(I)