| KS | SB434 | Veto | Exempting the practice of hair removal by sugaring from the definition of cosmetology.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Senate Vetoed by Governor; Returned to Senate on Friday, April 12, 2024 |
| KS | SB433 | Pass | Clarifying practice privileges of institutional license holders.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Senate Approved by Governor on Thursday, April 4, 2024 |
| KS | SB488 | Engross
50% | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| KS | SB391 | Engross
50% | 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 i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| KS | SB390 | Intro
25% | Enacting the conscientious right to refuse act to prohibit discrimination against individuals to refuse medical care and creating a civil cause of action based on such discrimination; repealing the authority of the secretary of health and environment...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee |
| KS | SB461 | Intro
25% | Creating the laser hair removal act to restrict the performance of laser hair removal to certain medical professionals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee |
| KS | SB489 | Intro
25% | Directing the department of corrections to establish a correctional center nursery for incarcerated expectant mothers and their child to allow certain expectant mothers to care and bond with their child for up to 36 months while incarcerated.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee |
| KS | SB496 | Intro
25% | Expanding the scope of practice of naturopathic doctors, specifying continuing education requirements, increasing the required amount of professional liability insurance and modifying certain provisions relating to the licensure and regulations of na...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee |
| KS | SB490 | Intro
25% | Updating certain provisions of the optometry law relating to scope of practice, definitions and credentialing requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-20
To Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee |
| KS | SB103 | Intro
25% | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
Senate Committee Report recommending bill be passed by Committee on Public Health and Welfare |
| KS | SB499 | Intro
25% | Establishing the prevention of maternal mortality grant program fund within the department of health and environment, providing for competitive grants to fund programs for the prevention of maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity, establishi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee |
| KS | SB404 | Intro
25% | Permitting the use of expedited partner therapy to treat a sexually transmitted disease.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee |
| KS | SB460 | Intro
25% | Requiring the secretary of health and environment to adopt anaphylaxis prevention and response policies for schools and day care facilities that set forth guidelines and procedures to prevent and respond to anaphylaxis.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee |
| KS | SB450 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Kansas Alzheimer's disease advisory council.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee |
| KS | SB353 | Intro
25% | Creating a civil cause of action against a physician who performs childhood gender reassignment service and requiring revocation of a physician's license who performs childhood gender reassignment service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee |
| KS | SB354 | Intro
25% | Designating facilities where elective abortions are performed as being ineligible to purchase professional liability insurance from the healthcare stabilization fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee |
| KS | SB131 | Pass | Substitute for SB 131 by Committee on Public Health and Welfare - Authorizing the state board of healing arts to issue a sports waiver to practice healing arts professions in this state on a limited basis during certain sporting events, authorizing p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Senate Approved by Governor on Tuesday, May 9, 2023 |
| KS | SB180 | Pass | Establishing the women's bill of rights to provide a meaning of biological sex for purposes of statutory construction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-27
House Motion to override veto prevailed; Yea: 84 Nay: 40 |
| KS | HB2390 | Engross
50% | House Substitute for HB 2390 by Committee on Public Health and Welfare - Requiring the secretary of health and environment to study drug overdose death cases and providing for the confidentiality of acquired and related records, restricting the autho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-06
Senate Conference Committee Report not adopted; Yea: 19 Nay: 18 |
| KS | SB112 | Engross
50% | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-03
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| KS | SB234 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting governmental entities from sharing or transmitting social care information into a closed loop referral system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
To Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee |
| KS | SB235 | Intro
25% | Expanding limitations to third-party access to provider network contracts and discounts unless certain criteria are met and prohibitions on payment method restrictions and limitations on certain transaction fees from dental services to all healthcare...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
To Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee |
| KS | SB236 | Intro
25% | Requiring drug manufacturers to provide pricing under the federal 340B drug pricing program to pharmacies that enter into contractual agreements with entities covered under the 340B program and prohibiting pharmacy benefits managers from denying pati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
To Senate Financial Institutions and Insurance Committee |
| KS | SB173 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the over-the-counter purchase of ivermectin tablets and hydroxychloroquine tablets.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-08
To Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee |
| KS | SB175 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting abortion procedures and creating the crimes of unlawful performance of an abortion and unlawful destruction of a fertilized embryo.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-08
To Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee |
| KS | SB176 | Intro
25% | Increasing the membership of the behavioral sciences regulatory board, decreasing the years of practice required for reciprocity licensure of certain professions, extending the license period for temporary licenses, establishing new license categorie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-08
To Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee |
| KS | SB181 | Intro
25% | Authorizing establishment of city or county child death review boards and permitting disclosure of records and information related to child deaths.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-08
To Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee |
| KS | SB148 | Intro
25% | Enacting the ensuring transparency in prior authorization act to impose requirements and limitations on the use of prior authorization in healthcare.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-03
To Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee |
| KS | SB161 | Intro
25% | Imposing certain health insurance coverage requirements for screening and diagnostic examinations for breast cancer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-03
To Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee |
| KS | SB121 | Intro
25% | Broadening the scope of practice of naturopathic doctors and changing certain provisions pertaining to the licensure and regulation of naturopathic doctors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-01
To Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee |
| KS | SB111 | Intro
25% | Enacting the massage therapist licensure act to provide for regulation and licensing of massage therapists.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-27
To Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee |
| KS | SB43 | Intro
25% | Making and concerning appropriations for the university of Kansas medical center for fiscal years 2023, 2024 and 2025 for conducting certain clinical trials at the midwest stem cell therapy center.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-19
To Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee |
