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House Committee on Health and Human Services

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

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    Bills, Resolutions and Appointments

    Bills In Committee
    SB5 - Prohibiting the prescribing of drugs intended to cause an abortion using telemedicine and restricting the governor's power during a state of emergency to alter such prohibitions.
    SB6 - Restricting the authority of the secretary of health and environment and local health officers to prevent the introduction and spread of infectious or contagious diseases; repealing the authority of the secretary to quarantine individuals and impose associated penalties.
    SB98 - Authorizing medical student and residency loan assistance to encourage the practice of obstetrics and gynecology in medically underserved areas of the state.
    SB112 - Authorizing registered nurse anesthetists to engage in independent practice and prescribe drugs and prohibiting registered nurse anesthetists from performing or prescribing drugs to induce an abortion.
    SB297 - Revising the definition of "abortion" to clarify procedures that are excluded from such definition.
    SB314 - Prohibiting the secretary of health and environment from requiring COVID-19 vaccination for children attending a child care facility or school.
    SB315 - Requiring child care facilities, elementary, secondary and postsecondary educational institutions and employers to grant exemptions from vaccine requirements without inquiring into the sincerity of the request and repealing the meningitis vaccine requirement to live in student housing.
    SB371 - Expanding the Kansas silver alert plan to provide public notice of missing persons 18 years of age or older who have an intellectual disability.
    SB391 - Enacting the constitutional right to health freedom act to regulate the activities of the secretary of health and environment related to public health functions; repealing statutes relating to the secretary's authority to quarantine individuals and impose associated penalties.
    SB488 - Expanding the scope of the inspector general to audit and investigate all state cash, food or health assistance programs and granting the inspector general the power to subpoena, administer oaths and execute search warrants thereto.
    HB2007 - Prohibiting the secretary of health and environment from requiring a COVID-19 vaccination for care at a child care facility or attendance at a school.
    HB2049 - Changing the length of the nurse aide course required for unlicensed employees in adult care homes to 75 hours.
    HB2050 - Updating income eligibility requirements for the state children's health insurance program.
    HB2126 - Authorizing the over-the-counter purchase of ivermectin tablets and hydroxychloroquine tablets.
    HB2161 - Enacting the patient right to visitation act to require patient care facilities to adopt visitation rules to allow certain relatives and other persons, including clergy, to visit terminally ill patients and other patients making major medical decisions.
    HB2171 - Providing that peer review privilege for healthcare providers does not apply to factual information.
    HB2181 - Prohibiting abortion procedures and creating the crimes of unlawful performance of an abortion and unlawful destruction of a fertilized embryo.
    HB2257 - Providing for the licensure and regulation of music therapists by the state board of healing arts and establishing the music therapy advisory committee.
    HB2258 - Prohibiting certain licensed individuals from using conversion therapy on minors.
    HB2259 - Providing that certain mental health medications be available without prior authorization to treat medicaid recipients and abolishing the mental health medication advisory committee.
    HB2263 - Authorizing pharmacy technicians to administer certain vaccines, creating a civil cause of action against a physician and requiring revocation of a physician's license who performs a childhood gender reassignment service.
    HB2265 - Providing for the regulation of supplemental nursing services agencies by the secretary for aging and disability services.
    HB2276 - Prohibiting pelvic, rectal, or prostate exams on unconscious patients without informed consent.
    HB2337 - Defining in-state and interstate practitioners under the Kansas telemedicine act, establishing certain standards of care, requiring certain insurance coverage of in-state telemedicine services and establishing the Kansas telehealth advisory committee.
    HB2347 - Providing price limits and other requirements for health benefits covering prescription insulin drugs and establishing the insulin affordability program for the uninsured.
    HB2467 - Revising the definition of "abortion" to clarify procedures that are excluded from such definition.
    HB2540 - Exempting the practice of hair removal by sugaring from the definition of cosmetology.
    HB2555 - Authorizing schools to maintain emergency albuterol kits and administer such medication in emergency situations.
    HB2556 - Expanding medical assistance eligibility and enacting the cutting healthcare costs for all Kansans act.
    HB2565 - Updating certain provisions of the Kansas dental practices act relating to dentist information requested by patients, in-person practice requirements in dental office using licensee's name, unprofessional conduct and patient complaints.
    HB2622 - Amending the Kansas indoor clean air act to prohibit smoking on the gaming floor of a lottery gaming facility or racetrack gaming facility.
    HB2642 - Amending provisions of the Kansas dental practice act relating to disciplinary action for making a diagnosis without examination and prohibiting dental service contracts that limit a patient's ability to file a complaint with the Kansas dental board.
    HB2643 - Creating the laser hair removal act to restrict the performance of laser hair removal to certain medical professionals.
    HB2670 - Requiring the department of health and environment to develop and publish educational information regarding the use of nonopioids.
    HB2686 - Requiring a prescriber discuss the risks of certain addictive controlled substances and alternatives to such substances with a patient before issuing a prescription for such subtances.
    HB2716 - Expanding the duties of the secretary of health and environment when investigating maternal deaths to include promoting continuity of care, helping develop performance measures and establishing an external review committee to study cases and make recommendations to prevent maternal deaths.
    HB2747 - Expanding the pharmacist scope of practice to include initiation of therapy for HIV post-exposure prophylaxis.
    HB2748 - Establishing the personal hygiene fund and program within the Kansas department of children and families and providing an individual income tax credit for taxpayer contributions to the personal hygiene fund.
    HB2756 - Enacting the art therapist licensure act to provide for the regulation and licensing of professional art therapists.
    HB2778 - Enacting the dietician licensure compact to provide interstate practice privileges for dieticians.
    HB2779 - Updating certain provisions of the optometry law relating to scope of practice, definitions and credentialing requirements.
    HB2789 - Establishing the pregnancy compassion program to provide resources and promote childbirth to women facing unplanned pregnancies, establishing the pregnancy compassion awareness program to promote public awareness of available resources; appropriating $4,000,000 per year from the state general fund toward such program and establishing a fee on the In God We Trust and the choose life license plates and using such fees to provide additional revenue for such program.
    HB2791 - Enacting the forbidding abuse child transitions act, restricting use of state funds to promote gender transitioning, prohibiting healthcare professionals from treating children whose gender identity is inconsistent with the child's sex, authorizing a civil cause of action against healthcare professionals for providing such treatments, authorizing professional discipline against a physician who performs such treatment, prohibiting professional liability insurance from covering damages for healthcare providers that provide gender transition treatment to children and adding violation of the act to the definition of unprofessional conduct for physicians and nurses.
    HB2792 - Prohibiting gender transition surgery on minors, authorizing professional discipline against a physician who performs such surgeries and adopting a standard of care for gender transition care services.
    HB2793 - Prohibiting healthcare providers from performing healthcare services on minors without parental consent.
    Resolutions In Committee
    HCR5011 - Proposing an amendment to the bill of rights of the constitution of the state of Kansas to provide no right to an abortion.
    Sponsored Bills
    SB96 - House Substitute for SB 96 by Committee on Health and Human Services - Establishing child care licensing requirements relating to license capacity and staff-to-child ratios, eliminating certain license fees and training requirements, creating a process for day care facility licensees to apply for temporary waiver of certain statutory requirements and authorizing the secretary to develop and operate pilot programs to increase child care facility availability or capacity.
    SB219 - Substitute for SB 219 by Committee on Health and Human Services - Expanding eligibility for rural emergency hospital licensure to facilities that meet criteria between 2015 and 2020.
    SB233 - House Substitute for SB 233 by Committee on Health and Human Services - Enacting the forbidding abuse child transitions act, restricting use of state funds to promote gender transitioning, prohibiting healthcare providers from treating children whose gender identity is inconsistent with the child's sex, authorizing a civil cause of action against healthcare providers for providing such treatments, requiring professional discipline against a healthcare provider who performs such treatment, prohibiting professional liability insurance from covering damages for healthcare providers that provide gender transition treatment to children and adding violation of the act to the definition of unprofessional conduct for physicians and nurses.
    SB287 - House Substitute for SB 287 by Committee on Health and Human Services - Prohibiting a healthcare provider from administering medication, diagnostic tests or conducting ongoing behavioral health treatments to a minor in a school facility without parental consent.
    SB352 - Enacting the no patient left alone act to require facilities to allow in-person visitation to certain patients at hospitals, adult care home and patient care facilities.
    HB2161 - Enacting the patient right to visitation act to require patient care facilities to adopt visitation rules to allow certain relatives and other persons, including clergy, to visit terminally ill patients and other patients making major medical decisions.
    HB2257 - Providing for the licensure and regulation of music therapists by the state board of healing arts and establishing the music therapy advisory committee.
    HB2258 - Prohibiting certain licensed individuals from using conversion therapy on minors.
    HB2259 - Providing that certain mental health medications be available without prior authorization to treat medicaid recipients and abolishing the mental health medication advisory committee.
    HB2260 - Increasing the number of medical student loan agreements that may be provided by the university of Kansas school of medicine and prohibiting impediments to switching between residency programs.
    HB2262 - Allowing six months of an embalmer apprenticeship to be completed prior to an individual attending mortuary science school
    HB2263 - Authorizing pharmacy technicians to administer certain vaccines, creating a civil cause of action against a physician and requiring revocation of a physician's license who performs a childhood gender reassignment service.
    HB2264 - Requiring notification to patients that the effects of a medication abortion may be reversible and revising the definition of "abortion" to clarify procedures that are excluded from such definition.
    HB2265 - Providing for the regulation of supplemental nursing services agencies by the secretary for aging and disability services.
    HB2266 - Defining non-covered benefits under dental benefit plans.
    HB2276 - Prohibiting pelvic, rectal, or prostate exams on unconscious patients without informed consent.
    HB2287 - Imposing certain health insurance coverage requirements for screening and diagnostic examinations for breast cancer.
    HB2288 - Enacting the counseling compact to provide for interstate practice privileges for professional counselors.
    HB2337 - Defining in-state and interstate practitioners under the Kansas telemedicine act, establishing certain standards of care, requiring certain insurance coverage of in-state telemedicine services and establishing the Kansas telehealth advisory committee.
    HB2338 - Designating sickle cell disease awareness week and requiring KDHE to study and report on topics related to sickle cell disease.
    HB2340 - Requiring the behavioral sciences regulatory board to process applications within a certain time, decreasing the years of practice required for reciprocity licensure of certain behavioral sciences professions, extending the license period for temporary licenses, establishing new license categories and decreasing continuing education requirements related to diagnosis and treatment.
    HB2347 - Providing price limits and other requirements for health benefits covering prescription insulin drugs and establishing the insulin affordability program for the uninsured.
    HB2390 - Establishing the Kansas overdose fatality review board and excluding tests to detect the presence of fentanyl, ketamine, flunitrazepam or gamma hydroxybutyric acid in a substance from the definition of drug paraphernalia.
    HB2408 - Exempting certain services provided in an adult care homes from the provisions of the acts regulating cosmetologists and barbers.
    HB2547 - Pertaining to the regulation of certain drugs, authorizing schools to maintain stock supplies of emergency medication kits for certain life-threatening conditions and adding and removing certain substances in schedules I, II, IV AND V of the uniform controlled substances act and making conforming changes to the criminal code definition of fentanyl-related controlled substances.
    HB2548 - Enacting the no patient left alone act to require facilities to allow in-person visitation to certain patients at hospitals, adult care homes and hospice facilities.
    HB2565 - Updating certain provisions of the Kansas dental practices act relating to dentist information requested by patients, in-person practice requirements in dental office using licensee's name, unprofessional conduct and patient complaints.
    HB2578 - Providing that programs and treatments provided by a certified community behavioral health clinic be granted a renewal certification if such programs and treatments have been previously certified or accredited.
    HB2579 - Authorizing the board of emergency medical services to distribute non-prescription over-the-counter medications.
    HB2596 - Adding and removing certain substances in schedules I, II, IV and V of the uniform controlled substances act and making conforming changes to the criminal code definition of "fentanyl-related controlled substances."
    HB2637 - Expanding eligibility for rural emergency hospital licensure to facilities that meet criteria at any point after 2015.
    HB2642 - Amending provisions of the Kansas dental practice act relating to disciplinary action for making a diagnosis without examination and prohibiting dental service contracts that limit a patient's ability to file a complaint with the Kansas dental board.
    HB2643 - Creating the laser hair removal act to restrict the performance of laser hair removal to certain medical professionals.
    HB2669 - Codifying the mental health intervention team program administered by the Kansas department for aging and disability services in state statute.
    HB2670 - Requiring the department of health and environment to develop and publish educational information regarding the use of nonopioids.
    HB2746 - Updating requirements for receiving and renewing a license under the dietitians licensing act.
    HB2747 - Expanding the pharmacist scope of practice to include initiation of therapy for HIV post-exposure prophylaxis.
    HB2748 - Establishing the personal hygiene fund and program within the Kansas department of children and families and providing an individual income tax credit for taxpayer contributions to the personal hygiene fund.
    HB2749 - Requiring medical care facilities and providers to report the reasons for each abortion performed at such facility or by such provider to the secretary of health and environment.
    HB2750 - Permitting the use of expedited partner therapy to treat a sexually transmitted disease.
    HB2751 - Authorizing the Kansas department for aging and disability services to condition or restrict a disability service provider license, granting the secretary authority to grant regulation waivers unrelated to health and safety and authorizing correction orders and civil fines to be appealed to the secretary.
    HB2777 - Prohibiting an employee of the office of the state fire marshal from wearing or operating a body camera during an on-site inspection at a licensed care facility.
    HB2778 - Enacting the dietician licensure compact to provide interstate practice privileges for dieticians.
    HB2779 - Updating certain provisions of the optometry law relating to scope of practice, definitions and credentialing requirements.
    HB2784 - Transferring authority for certification of continuing care retirement communities from the Kansas insurance department to the Kansas department for aging and disability services.
    HB2789 - Establishing the pregnancy compassion program to provide resources and promote childbirth to women facing unplanned pregnancies, establishing the pregnancy compassion awareness program to promote public awareness of available resources; appropriating $4,000,000 per year from the state general fund toward such program and establishing a fee on the In God We Trust and the choose life license plates and using such fees to provide additional revenue for such program.
    HB2791 - Enacting the forbidding abuse child transitions act, restricting use of state funds to promote gender transitioning, prohibiting healthcare professionals from treating children whose gender identity is inconsistent with the child's sex, authorizing a civil cause of action against healthcare professionals for providing such treatments, authorizing professional discipline against a physician who performs such treatment, prohibiting professional liability insurance from covering damages for healthcare providers that provide gender transition treatment to children and adding violation of the act to the definition of unprofessional conduct for physicians and nurses.
    HB2792 - Prohibiting gender transition surgery on minors, authorizing professional discipline against a physician who performs such surgeries and adopting a standard of care for gender transition care services.
    HB2793 - Prohibiting healthcare providers from performing healthcare services on minors without parental consent.
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