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Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare

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

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    Bills, Resolutions and Appointments

    Bills In Committee
    SB12 - Enacting the Kansas child mutilation prevention act to criminalize performing gender reassignment surgery or prescription of hormone replacement therapy on certain persons and providing grounds for unprofessional conduct for healing arts licensees.
    SB20 - Requiring child care facilities, elementary, secondary, 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.
    SB43 - 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.
    SB45 - Updating income eligibility requirements for the state children's health insurance program.
    SB111 - Enacting the massage therapist licensure act to provide for regulation and licensing of massage therapists.
    SB118 - 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.
    SB121 - Broadening the scope of practice of naturopathic doctors and changing certain provisions pertaining to the licensure and regulation of naturopathic doctors.
    SB139 - Expanding newborn screening services and increasing transfer from the medical assistance fee fund to the Kansas newborn screening fund.
    SB148 - Enacting the ensuring transparency in prior authorization act to impose requirements and limitations on the use of prior authorization in healthcare.
    SB161 - Imposing certain health insurance coverage requirements for screening and diagnostic examinations for breast cancer.
    SB173 - Authorizing the over-the-counter purchase of ivermectin tablets and hydroxychloroquine tablets.
    SB175 - Prohibiting abortion procedures and creating the crimes of unlawful performance of an abortion and unlawful destruction of a fertilized embryo.
    SB176 - 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 categories, providing additional continuing education requirements and requiring that clinical social work supervisors be approved by the board.
    SB181 - Authorizing establishment of city or county child death review boards and permitting disclosure of records and information related to child deaths.
    SB191 - Establishing requirements for the involuntary discharge or transfer of a resident in an adult residential care facility, the right to appeal such discharge or transfer and a process for such appeal.
    SB206 - Enacting the medical autonomy/accessibility and truth act to remove certain provisions regarding abortion from the no taxpayer funding for abortion act, the woman's-right-to-know act and the pain-capable unborn child act to allow for insurance coverage for abortions, provide tax benefits for abortion-related services and remove inaccurate statements regarding the risks of abortion.
    SB213 - Requiring healthcare providers to charge the same amount for medical record requests related to a patient's social security disability, workers' compensation, medical malpractice or personal injury claims whether requested by a patient or the patient's legal representative.
    SB225 - Establishing the KanCare bridge to a healthy Kansas program to expand Medicaid eligibility.
    SB234 - Prohibiting governmental entities from sharing or transmitting social care information into a closed loop referral system.
    SB235 - 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 services.
    SB246 - 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.
    SB277 - Providing for the regulation of supplemental nursing services agencies by the secretary for aging and disability services.
    SB281 - Creating the position of dementia services coordinator within the department of aging and disability services.
    SB294 - Increasing the amount of state moneys distributed to local health departments.
    SB305 - Enacting the massage therapist licensure act to provide for regulation and licensing of massage therapists.
    SB319 - Establishing the alternatives to abortion program to provide resources and promote childbirth to women facing unplanned pregnancies.
    SB320 - Creating the born-alive infants protection act to provide legal protections for infants who are born alive regardless of the intent of the delivery.
    SB353 - 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.
    SB354 - Designating facilities where elective abortions are performed as being ineligible to purchase professional liability insurance from the healthcare stabilization fund.
    SB355 - Expanding medical assistance eligibility and enacting the cutting healthcare costs for all Kansans act.
    SB390 - 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 to quarantine individuals and impose associated penalties.
    SB404 - Permitting the use of expedited partner therapy to treat a sexually transmitted disease.
    SB449 - Expanding the definition of healthcare provider for individuals providing care at the scene of an emergency or accident.
    SB450 - Establishing the Kansas Alzheimer's disease advisory council.
    SB460 - 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.
    SB461 - Creating the laser hair removal act to restrict the performance of laser hair removal to certain medical professionals.
    SB489 - 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.
    SB490 - Updating certain provisions of the optometry law relating to scope of practice, definitions and credentialing requirements.
    SB496 - 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 naturopathic doctors.
    SB499 - 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, establishing the prevention of maternal mortality grant program fund and making transfers to such fund.
    SB501 - Transferring certain child care programs to the Kansas office of early childhood and separating licensing duties between the secretary for health and environment and the executive director of early childhood.
    SB518 - Establishing the complex rehabilitation technology coverage act.
    SB528 - Establishing the Kansas ultrasound act, requiring that an obstetric ultrasound be performed on a woman prior to an abortion, permitting a woman to avert her eyes from the ultrasound images, establishing civil and criminal penalties and providing an emergency exception to requirements of the act.
    SB556 - Expanding the Kansas silver alert plan to provide public notice of missing persons 18 years of age or older who have an intellectual disability.
    HB2140 - Increasing the age range of able-bodied adults without dependents required to complete an employment and training program to receive food assistance.
    HB2179 - Establishing periods of ineligibility for child care subsidy based on cooperation with child support services and requiring the secretary to conduct reviews of cooperation with child support.
    HB2194 - Enacting the Representative Gail Finney memorial foster care bill of rights.
    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.
    HB2408 - Exempting certain services provided in an adult care homes from the provisions of the acts regulating cosmetologists and barbers.
    Sponsored Bills
    SB43 - 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.
    SB103 - 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.
    SB111 - Enacting the massage therapist licensure act to provide for regulation and licensing of massage therapists.
    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.
    SB113 - Allowing naturopathic doctors to engage in the corporate practice of medicine.
    SB121 - Broadening the scope of practice of naturopathic doctors and changing certain provisions pertaining to the licensure and regulation of naturopathic doctors.
    SB131 - 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 pharmacy technicians to administer certain vaccines, licensing of professional counselors, social workers, marriage and family therapists, addiction counselors, behavior analysts, psychologists and master's level psychologists, requiring the behavioral sciences regulatory board to process applications within a certain time and establish an expedited application process, establishing license categories for applicants from social work programs in candidacy for accreditation and for temporary reinstatement; extending the license period of temporary licenses, establishing a community-based license for certain licensed professions.
    SB148 - Enacting the ensuring transparency in prior authorization act to impose requirements and limitations on the use of prior authorization in healthcare.
    SB161 - Imposing certain health insurance coverage requirements for screening and diagnostic examinations for breast cancer.
    SB173 - Authorizing the over-the-counter purchase of ivermectin tablets and hydroxychloroquine tablets.
    SB175 - Prohibiting abortion procedures and creating the crimes of unlawful performance of an abortion and unlawful destruction of a fertilized embryo.
    SB176 - 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 categories, providing additional continuing education requirements and requiring that clinical social work supervisors be approved by the board.
    SB180 - Establishing the women's bill of rights to provide a meaning of biological sex for purposes of statutory construction.
    SB181 - Authorizing establishment of city or county child death review boards and permitting disclosure of records and information related to child deaths.
    SB234 - Prohibiting governmental entities from sharing or transmitting social care information into a closed loop referral system.
    SB235 - 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 services.
    SB236 - 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 patients the freedom to use the pharmacy and healthcare provider of such patient's choice.
    SB352 - Enacting the John D. Springer patient's bill of rights to require hospitals to allow in-person visitation, adopt visitation policies and procedures and creating a civil cause of action for violation of such rights.
    SB353 - 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.
    SB354 - Designating facilities where elective abortions are performed as being ineligible to purchase professional liability insurance from the healthcare stabilization fund.
    SB390 - 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 to quarantine individuals and impose associated penalties.
    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.
    SB404 - Permitting the use of expedited partner therapy to treat a sexually transmitted disease.
    SB433 - Clarifying practice privileges of institutional license holders.
    SB434 - Exempting the practice of hair removal by sugaring from the definition of cosmetology.
    SB450 - Establishing the Kansas Alzheimer's disease advisory council.
    SB460 - 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.
    SB461 - Creating the laser hair removal act to restrict the performance of laser hair removal to certain medical professionals.
    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.
    SB489 - 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.
    SB490 - Updating certain provisions of the optometry law relating to scope of practice, definitions and credentialing requirements.
    SB496 - 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 naturopathic doctors.
    SB499 - 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, establishing the prevention of maternal mortality grant program fund and making transfers to such fund.
    HB2390 - Senate 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 authority of the secretary of health and environment and local health officers to prevent the introduction and spread of infectious or contagious diseases and repealing the authority of the secretary to quarantine individuals and impose associated penalties.
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