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Senate Committee on 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
    SB174 - Updating scope of practice requirements for advanced practice registered nurses without a supervising physician, imposing requirements therefor and updating certain licensure requirements.
    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.
    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.
    SB287 - Enacting the Kansas medical marijuana regulation act and enacting the Kansas innovative solutions for affordable healthcare act to expand medical assistance eligibility.
    SB298 - Updates to the controlled substances act.
    SB303 - Prohibiting boards of county commissioners, boards of trustees or employees from restricting visitors of residents of a county home for the aged or patients in a county hospital and permitting such residents and patients to waive state, city or federal restrictions on right to receive visitors.
    SB315 - Creating the Kansas medical marijuana regulation act to regulate the production, distribution, sale and possession of medical marijuana.
    HB2088 - Requiring visual observation of an alleged victim of child abuse or neglect as part of an investigation.
    HB2150 - Creating a definition of financial exploitation, requiring additional mandatory reporters, increasing investigation days for reports of abuse, neglect and financial exploitation of certain adults and directing the department for children and families to inform certain chief administrative officers of substantiated findings of such reports.
    HB2259 - Permitting the use of expedited partner therapy to treat a sexually transmitted disease.
    HB2448 - Permitting the secretary for children and families to license certain family foster homes where a former foster care youth with juvenile adjudications resides.
    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 and establishing the rural hospital innovation grant program to assist rural hospitals in serving rural communities.
    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 - Substitute for SB 238 by Committee on Public Health and Welfare - Requiring emergency medical services operators be overseen by medical directors or physicians; clarifying duties and functions of the state board of pharmacy; providing for confidentiality of investigations, inspections and audits; establishing fees on out-of-state facilities; defining telepharmacy and requiring the adoption of rules and regulations related thereto.
    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.
    HB2062 - Senate Substitute for HB 2062 by Committee on Public Health and Welfare - Prohibiting boards of county commissioners, boards of trustees or employees from restricting visitors of residents of a county home for the aged or patients in a county hospital and permitting such residents and patients to waive state, city or federal restrictions on the right to receive visitors.
    HB2208 - Senate Substitute for HB 2208 by Committee on Public Health and Welfare - Establishing certification and funding for certified community behavioral health clinics, enacting the rural emergency hospital act to provide for the licensure of rural emergency hospitals, 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.
    HB2262 - Senate Substitute for HB 2262 by Committee on Public Health and Welfare - Updating schedules I, II, IV and V of the uniform controlled substances act.
    Sponsored Resolutions - 2021 Legislative Session
    SR1707 - Recognizing the need to administer the COVID-19 vaccine.
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    • 2021. Powered by KLISS. Rendered: 2021-09-25T11:53:57. Head Rev No: 435185(I)