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House Committee on Insurance and Pensions

  • Committee Assistant: Coleen Coker 785-296-7696
  • coleen.coker@house.ks.gov

    • Meeting Day: Mon/Wed Time: 3:30 pm Location: 218-N

    Room 218-N Audio Stream

    Bills, Resolutions and Appointments

    Bills In Committee
    SB265 - Providing a KPERS death and long-term disability employer contribution moratorium.
    SB290 - Increasing healthcare stabilization fund minimum professional liability insurance coverage requirements, changing the membership of the board of governors of such fund and adding options and increasing time for service of process thereon.
    SB523 - Authorizing certain transfers from the state general fund to the Kansas public employees retirement fund in fiscal years 2022 and 2023 and requiring state finance council approval for such fiscal year 2023 transfers.
    HB2042 - Enacting the Kansas thrift savings plan act.
    HB2044 - Increasing KPERS employee contribution rate for school district employees and making appropriations for FY 2022 for the department of education for a pay increase for KPERS covered school district employees.
    HB2073 - Limiting utilization review conducted by health plans under certain circumstances involving the treatment of mental illness or substance abuse disorder.
    HB2111 - Providing membership in the KP&F retirement system for certain security officers of the department of corrections.
    HB2129 - Providing for tobacco cessation benefits coverage under the state health care benefits program.
    HB2135 - Establishing the securities act victim restitution program.
    HB2198 - Permitting local eligible employers to affiliate with KP&F with regard to coverage of certain local corrections employees.
    HB2241 - Requiring certain insurance coverage for diagnostic examinations for breast cancer.
    HB2242 - Increasing the percentage amount the state fire marshal may levy on fire insurance company premiums caused by fire business being transacted in Kansas.
    HB2289 - Authorizing the issuance of $1,000,000,000 of pension obligation bonds to finance a portion of the unfunded actuarial liability of KPERS and utilizing the net investment returns on such bonds to provide annual retirant dividend payments to certain retirants.
    HB2324 - Establishing a $100 maximum out-of-pocket cost-share per month per covered person for prescription insulin drugs.
    HB2325 - Prohibiting certain billing practices by health insurers and enacting the end surprise medical bills act.
    HB2343 - Providing for insurance coverage for prescription contraceptives dispensed for three or twelve-month periods.
    HB2348 - Modifying automobile insurance policy uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage liability limitations for bodily injury or death.
    HB2368 - Increasing the motor vehicle liability insurance minimum policy limit for bodily injury.
    HB2378 - Creating the Kansas work and save program under the administration of the state treasurer and allowing certain individuals to contribute to individual retirement accounts.
    HB2383 - Providing for enhanced regulation of pharmacy benefits managers and requiring licensure rather than registration of such entities.
    HB2388 - Requiring health benefit plans to cover certain professional services when performed by pharmacists.
    HB2470 - Providing membership in the KP&F retirement system for certain security officers of the department of corrections and allowing certain service credit purchases of previous KPERS security officer service for purposes of KP&F retirement benefits.
    HB2509 - Expanding deferred retirement option program (DROP) membership to all KP&F members.
    HB2561 - Making and concerning appropriations for fiscal year 2022 for the department of education to pay the actuarial cost of certain delayed KPERS employer contributions, authorizing certain transfers from the state general fund to the Kansas public employees retirement fund during fiscal year 2022 and eliminating certain level-dollar KPERS employer contribution payments.
    HB2562 - Imposing certain health insurance coverage requirements for screening and diagnostic examinations for breast cancer.
    HB2586 - Enacting the Kansas work and save program act, allowing certain individuals to contribute to individual retirement accounts and providing administrative duties and powers of the state treasurer regarding such program.
    HB2593 - Reducing the KPERS working after retirement employer contribution rate to only the statutory rate and decreasing the waiting period to 60 days for certain retirants employed by a school district for a period ending June 30, 2024.
    HB2612 - Authorizing a self-funded cost-of-living adjustment retirement benefit option for certain members of KPERS.
    HB2635 - Adopting the national association of insurance commissioner's amendments to the unfair trade practices act excluding commercial property and casualty insurance producers, brokers and insurers from prohibitions on giving rebates as an inducement to sales.
    HB2637 - Establishing an exemption for certain physicians and other providers from certain health maintenance organization preauthorization requirements.
    HB2638 - Adding automobile windshield repair and replacement to services covered by service contracts.
    HB2687 - Eliminating certain level-dollar KPERS employer contribution payments.
    HB2713 - Providing membership in the KP&F retirement system for certain security officers of the department of corrections and for certain law enforcement officers and employees of the Kansas department of wildlife and parks.
    HB2733 - Enacting the pharmacy benefits manager licensure act and requiring licensure rather than registration of such entities.
    HB2742 - Providing a post-retirement dividend payment to certain retirants and making appropriations for KPERS for fiscal year 2023 for such payment.
    Sponsored Bills
    SB28 - House Substitute for SB 28 by Committee on Insurance and Pensions - Enacting the pharmacy benefits manager licensure act and requiring licensure rather than registration of such entities.
    SB78 - House Substitute for SB 78 by Committee on Insurance and Pensions - Updating the national insurance commissioners credit for insurance reinsurance model law, codifying the national insurance commissioners credit for reinsurance model regulation and updating certain terms and definitions relating to the insurance holding company act, service contracts and surplus lines insurance. Eliminating certain requirements relating to the annual submittal of certain documents by out-of-state risk retention groups, extending the time frame to submit certain documents by professional employer organizations, abolishing the utilization review advisory committee and replacing it with URAC.
    HB2072 - Updating the version of risk-based capital instructions in effect.
    HB2073 - Limiting utilization review conducted by health plans under certain circumstances involving the treatment of mental illness or substance abuse disorder.
    HB2074 - Updating producer licensing statutes pertaining to appointment, fees, licensing, renewal dates, continuing education, suspension, revocation and denial of licensure and reinstatement.
    HB2110 - Requiring insurance coverage for PANS and PANDAS by the state health care benefits program and requiring the state employee health care commission to submit an impact report on such coverage to the legislature.
    HB2111 - Providing membership in the KP&F retirement system for certain security officers of the department of corrections.
    HB2129 - Providing for tobacco cessation benefits coverage under the state health care benefits program.
    HB2134 - Making appropriations for the Kansas state department of education for FY 2021, FY 2022 and FY 2023; requiring a Kansas foster care children annual academic report card; authorizing limited remote learning; providing the criteria for identification of students eligible to receive at-risk programs and services; requiring boards of education to allocate sufficient school district moneys to improve student academic performance; authorizing school districts to pay tuition and fees for concurrent and dual enrollment programs; expanding student eligibility under the tax credit for low income students scholarship program; extending the high-density at-risk weighting; providing ACT college entrance exams and workkeys assessments to certain nonpublic school students.
    HB2135 - Establishing the securities act victim restitution program.
    HB2136 - Updating certain statutes relating to the regulation of the business of insurance; granting the commissioner of insurance certain investigative powers.
    HB2198 - Permitting local eligible employers to affiliate with KP&F with regard to coverage of certain local corrections employees.
    HB2241 - Requiring certain insurance coverage for diagnostic examinations for breast cancer.
    HB2242 - Increasing the percentage amount the state fire marshal may levy on fire insurance company premiums caused by fire business being transacted in Kansas.
    HB2243 - Adjusting the frequency of the KPERS actuarial experience study, providing a moratorium on KPERS death and long-term disability employer contributions, allowing the extension of certain DROP periods and conforming certain KPERS provisions with the federal CARES act.
    HB2324 - Establishing a $100 maximum out-of-pocket cost-share per month per covered person for prescription insulin drugs.
    HB2325 - Prohibiting certain billing practices by health insurers and enacting the end surprise medical bills act.
    HB2368 - Increasing the motor vehicle liability insurance minimum policy limit for bodily injury.
    HB2378 - Creating the Kansas work and save program under the administration of the state treasurer and allowing certain individuals to contribute to individual retirement accounts.
    HB2379 - Enacting the peer-to-peer vehicle sharing act to provide insurance, liability, recordkeeping and consumer protection requirements for peer-to-peer vehicle sharing.
    HB2380 - Amending healthcare stabilization fund minimum professional liability insurance coverage requirements and the membership of the board of governors of such fund.
    HB2383 - Providing for enhanced regulation of pharmacy benefits managers and requiring licensure rather than registration of such entities.
    HB2388 - Requiring health benefit plans to cover certain professional services when performed by pharmacists.
    HB2481 - Authorizing KP&F participating service credit purchase for certain in-state nonfederal governmental employment.
    HB2509 - Expanding deferred retirement option program (DROP) membership to all KP&F members.
    HB2547 - Authorizing technology-enabled fiduciary financial institution insurance companies within the captive insurance act and providing for the requirements and operations thereof.
    HB2561 - Making and concerning appropriations for fiscal year 2022 for the department of education to pay the actuarial cost of certain delayed KPERS employer contributions, authorizing certain transfers from the state general fund to the Kansas public employees retirement fund during fiscal year 2022 and eliminating certain level-dollar KPERS employer contribution payments.
    HB2562 - Imposing certain health insurance coverage requirements for screening and diagnostic examinations for breast cancer.
    HB2564 - Updating the version of risk-based capital instructions in effect.
    HB2583 - Providing an annual KPERS cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) on the occurrence of certain investment returns and increases to the consumer price index as certified by the KPERS board or executive director as designated by the board.
    HB2584 - Providing a post-retirement cost-of-living adjustment for certain KPERS retirants.
    HB2586 - Enacting the Kansas work and save program act, allowing certain individuals to contribute to individual retirement accounts and providing administrative duties and powers of the state treasurer regarding such program.
    HB2593 - Reducing the KPERS working after retirement employer contribution rate to only the statutory rate and decreasing the waiting period to 60 days for certain retirants employed by a school district for a period ending June 30, 2024.
    HB2612 - Authorizing a self-funded cost-of-living adjustment retirement benefit option for certain members of KPERS.
    HB2635 - Adopting the national association of insurance commissioner's amendments to the unfair trade practices act excluding commercial property and casualty insurance producers, brokers and insurers from prohibitions on giving rebates as an inducement to sales.
    HB2637 - Establishing an exemption for certain physicians and other providers from certain health maintenance organization preauthorization requirements.
    HB2638 - Adding automobile windshield repair and replacement to services covered by service contracts.
    HB2639 - Increasing the amount of retirant compensation subject to the statutory employer contribution rate and for a period ending June 30, 2023, reducing the employer contribution rate to the statutory rate for all compensation when employing retirants who are retired for one year or more when hired by a participating employer. 
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    • 2022. Powered by KLISS. Rendered: 2022-05-23T13:47:00. Head Rev No: 816395(I)