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House Committee on Health and Human Services

  • Committee Assistant: David Long 785-296-7488
  • David.Long@house.ks.gov

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

    Room 112-N Audio Stream

    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.
    SB219 - Designating certain healthcare providers as being ineligible to purchase professional liability insurance from the healthcare stabilization fund.
    SB233 - 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.
    SB287 - Expanding the Kansas silver alert plan to include persons 18 years of age or older who have dementia, a developmental disability or a cognitive impairment.
    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.
    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.
    HB2453 - Enacting the dentist and dental hygienist compact to provide interstate practice privileges for dentists and dental hygienists.
    HB2467 - Revising the definition of "abortion" to clarify procedures that are excluded from such definition.
    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.
    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.
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