Public Health and Welfare

KS - Senator Tim Shallenburger (R)

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Chair

KS - Senator Beverly Gossage (R)

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Vice Chair

KS - Senator Pat Pettey (D)

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Ranking Minority Member

KS - Senator Molly Baumgardner (R)

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Member

KS - Senator Renee Erickson (R)

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Member

KS - Senator Cindy Holscher (D)

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Member

KS - Senator Kenny Titus (R)

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Member

KS - Senator Mark Steffen (R)

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Member

KS - Senator Mike Thompson (R)

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Member

KS - HB2115 Establishing the joint committee on child welfare system oversight.

KS - HB2151 Creating Kansas elder and dependent adult abuse multidisciplinary teams and a coordinator.

KS - 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...

KS - SB42 Concerning the study and investigation of maternal deaths in the state of Kansas.

KS - SB48 Requiring certain insurance coverage for diagnostic examinations for breast cancer.

KS - SB251 Updating statutes relating to the powers, duties and functions of the state board of pharmacy.

KS - 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

KS - SB129 Providing for the licensure of dental therapists.

KS - SB227 Providing dental benefits for medicaid enrollees and making technical updates to the dental practices act.

KS - SB155 Expanding newborn screening services and increasing transfers from the medical assistance fee fund to the Kansas newborn screening fund.

KS - HB2254 Increasing the monetary cap on irrevocable prearranged funeral agreements to $10,000.

KS - SB295 Giving counties the authority to adopt prioritized COVID-19 vaccination plans separate from state guidelines.

KS - 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.

KS - SB83 Allowing certain exceptions to the confidentiality of state child death review board documents.

KS - SB120 Establishing the joint committee on child welfare system oversight.

KS - SB77 Enacting the audiology and speech-language pathology interstate compact.

KS - 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.

KS - 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.

KS - SB315 Creating the Kansas medical marijuana regulation act to regulate the production, distribution, sale and possession of medical marijuana.

KS - SB436 Ensuring a right to in-person visitation at medical care facilities and adult care homes, prohibiting certain public health orders related to isolation and quarantine, stay-at-home orders, curfews and face masks, limiting isolation or quarantine orders to recommendations and providing criminal penalties for certain violations, limiting state of disaster emergency powers of the governor and state of local disaster emergency powers of counties and cities related to stay-at-home orders, curfews ...

KS - SB437 Prohibiting certain acts by business entities, governmental entities or public officials based upon a person's vaccination status or possession of an immunity passport, amending the Kansas act against discrimination to define unlawful employment practices related to vaccination status or possession of an immunity passport and limiting powers of the secretary of health and environment and local health officers.

KS - SB471 Imposing certain health insurance coverage requirements for screening and diagnostic examinations for breast cancer, expanding eligibility for medicaid postpartum coverage to 12 months and requiring children's health insurance coverage eligibility to be tied to current federal poverty income guidelines.

KS - SB474 Permitting an ambulance to operate with one emergency medical service provider in rural counties.

KS - SB469 Permitting certain persons convicted of a felony to be eligible for food assistance.

KS - SB472 Expanding medical assistance eligibility and providing requirements therefor.

KS - SB531 Enacting the massage therapist licensure act to provide for regulation and licensing of massage therapists.

KS - SB12 Requiring the Kansas department for children and families to implement performance-based contracts.

KS - SB92 Creating the Kansas equal access act to authorize the use of medical marijuana.

KS - SB138 Establishing certification and funding for certified community behavioral health clinics.

KS - HB2259 Permitting the use of expedited partner therapy to treat a sexually transmitted disease.

KS - SB174 Updating scope of practice requirements for advanced practice registered nurses without a supervising physician, imposing requirements therefor and updating certain licensure requirements.

KS - SB298 Updates to the controlled substances act.

KS - 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.

KS - HB2448 Senate Substitute for HB 2448 by Committee on Public Health and Welfare - Requiring able-bodied adults without dependents to complete an employment and training program in order to receive food assistance.

KS - SB348 Exempting the practice of threading from the practice of cosmetology.

KS - SB55 Clarifying the authority of healing arts school clinics to provide healing arts services.

KS - SB381 Allowing for the prescribing and dispensing of medications for off-label use to prevent and treat COVID-19 infections.

KS - SB407 Updating income eligibility requirements for the state children's health insurance program.

KS - SB398 Requiring child care facilities and schools to grant religious exemptions from vaccination requirements without inquiring into the sincerity of the religious beliefs.

KS - SB417 Establishing minimum and maximum permit renewal fees for certain solid waste disposal areas and processing facilities.

KS - SB454 Amending the advanced practice registered nurse authorized scope of practice to permit the prescribing of drugs without a supervising physician.

KS - SB453 Requiring unlicensed employees in adult care homes to complete certain training requirements, reinstating the social worker applicant option for board-approved postgraduate supervised experience, allowing master's and clinical level licensees to take the baccalaureate addiction counselor test and requiring the behavioral sciences regulatory board to accept a master of social work degree from Fort Hays state university as from an accredited college or university.

KS - SB440 Establishing when an occupational therapist may treat a patient without referral from a physician and requiring occupational therapists to maintain professional liability insurance.

KS - SB441 Enacting the biological laboratory accident transparency act.

KS - SB500 Permitting the creation of long term care facilities for children in continued crisis.

KS - SB502 Providing for separate licensure authority for maternity centers.

KS - SB501 Requiring able-bodied adults without dependents to complete an employment and training program in order to receive food assistance, requiring state agencies to conduct cross-checks to verify public assistance recipient eligibility and to receive public assistance, requiring the department for health and environment seek approval to eliminate mandatory hospital presumptive eligibility, requiring hospitals to follow standards established for presumptive eligibility determinations and requiring ...

KS - SB489 Removing certain regulatory authority concerning infectious or contagious diseases from the secretary of health and environment.

KS - SB539 Permitting naturopathic doctors and acupuncturists to engage in the corporate practice of medicine.

KS - SB41 Establishing a $100 maximum out-of-pocket cost-share per month per covered person for prescription insulin drugs.

KS - SB248 Updating certain definitions, referral to specialty services and coordination of care provisions in the Kansas telemedicine act.

KS - 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.

KS - SB121 Updating certain provisions of the Kansas dental practice act.

KS - SB237 Requiring the secretary of health and environment to establish a task force to study and report on uncompensated healthcare.

KS - SB240 Requiring drug rebate revenues associated with medical assistance enrollees to be deposited into the state general fund and monthly reporting thereof.

KS - SB239 Authorizing the secretary for children and families to request a waiver from certain limitations under the food assistance program.

KS - SB241 Allowing a child placed up for adoption following termination of parental rights to remain eligible for state-provided health insurance.

KS - SB200 Expanding the pharmacist scope of practice to include initiation of therapy for certain conditions, updating provisions of the prescription monitoring program act relating to program data, storage and access and increasing the membership of the advisory committee.

KS - SB207 Providing additional regulation and restrictions for out-of-state doctors to practice telemedicine in the state of Kansas.

KS - SB211 Allowing physicians to have patients sign a liability waiver for off-label use of prescription drugs.

KS - SB212 Granting civil immunity for exposing another to infectious disease due to a lack of immunization, prohibiting an employer from taking adverse employment action based on an employee's immunization status, prohibiting the secretary of health and environment from requiring additional immunizations to attend a child care facility or school.

KS - HB2114 Establishing the senior care task force, a definition of financial exploitation and Kansas elder and dependent adult abuse multidisciplinary team coordinator and teams, 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.

KS - SB343 Providing considerations for in family law, adoption, foster care, guardianship and child in need of care proceedings for parents or prospective parents who are blind and updating the term "hearing impaired" to "hard of hearing" in statutes related to persons with hearing loss.

KS - SB274 Amending the scope of practice, discipline by the board, and license renewal procedures for naturopathic doctors.

KS - SB275 Allowing naturopathic doctors to engage in the corporate practice of medicine.

KS - 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.

KS - 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.

KS - SR1724 Supporting the Global Covid Summit Physicians Declaration II and its three foundational principles.

KS - HB2234 Requiring medical directors of emergency medical services to provide medical oversight of such services and emergency medical service providers.

KS - 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 scie...

KS - HB2209 Enacting the psychology interjurisdictional compact to provide for interjurisdictional authorization to practice telepsychology and temporary in-person, face-to-face psychology.

KS - HB2116 Exempting the caregiver of a child in state out-of-home placement from the child care assistance 20-hour-per-week work requirement.

KS - SB287 Enacting the Kansas medical marijuana regulation act and enacting the Kansas innovative solutions for affordable healthcare act to expand medical assistance eligibility.

KS - HB2279 Senate substitute for HB 2279 by committee on public health and welfare - Amending the advanced practice registered nurse authorized scope of practice to permit the prescribing of drugs without a supervising physician.

KS - HB2280 Senate Substitute for HB 2280 by Committee on Public Health and Welfare - Authorizing the prescribing and dispensing of medications for off-label use to prevent and treat COVID-19 infections and requiring child care facilities and schools to grant religious exemptions from vaccination requirements without inquiring into the sincerity of such religious beliefs.

KS - HB2224 Expanding the definition of "infectious disease" in certain statutes related to crimes in which bodily fluids may have been transmitted from one person to another.

KS - HB2088 Requiring visual observation of an alleged victim of child abuse or neglect as part of an investigation.

KS - SB373 Making appropriations to the university of Kansas medical center for fiscal years 2022, 2023 and 2024 for conducting COVID-19 clinical trials at the midwest stem cell therapy center.

KS - SB170 Enacting the psychology interjurisdictional compact to provide for interjurisdictional authorization to practice telepsychology and temporary in-person, face-to-face psychology and enacting the physical therapy licensure compact and authorizing criminal history record checks in the physical therapy practice act.

KS - SB85 Requiring notification to the governor and the legislature of missing foster care youth.

KS - SB387 Reinstating social worker applicant option for board-approved postgraduate supervised experience and allowing master's and clinical level licensees to take baccalaureate addiction counselor test.

KS - SB425 Directing the Kansas department for children and families to share certain information with investigating law enforcement agencies.

KS - SB460 Requiring a forensic medical evaluation of an alleged victim of child abuse or neglect as part of an investigation, creating a program in the department of health and environment to provide training and payment and defining child abuse review and evaluation providers, networks and examinations and child abuse medical resource centers.

KS - SB490 Expanding options for legal surrender of an infant to include infant refuge cribs.

KS - HB2386 Establishing requirements for the payment and reimbursement of dental services by a dental benefit plan.

KS - HB2253 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.

KS - HB2582 Directing the Kansas department for children and families to share certain information with investigating law enforcement agencies.

KS - HB2632 Requiring a referral of an alleged victim of child abuse or neglect for a examination as part of an investigation, creating a program in the department of health and environment to provide training and payment and defining child abuse review and evaluation providers, networks, examinations and referrals and child abuse medical resource centers. 

KS - HB2734 Reinstating the social worker applicant option for board-approved postgraduate supervised experience and allowing master's and clinical level licensees to take the baccalaureate addiction counselor test.