Brief(1)
S.C.R. 1606 requests the Governor to ask various secretaries of the Executive Branch to examine K.S.A. 74-5065 through 74-5067 (the Kansas Industrial Training Program) and any other statutes and rules and regulations to identity funds which may be available for training, retraining, or continuing education of long-term care staff of adult care homes. The Governor is asked to report the secretaries' findings to the Board of Adult Care Home Administrators, the Secretary of Health and Environment, and the Legislature during the 2000 Legislative Session.
The Senate Committee amendment was technical.
Background
S.C.R. 1606 was introduced by the Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare to address one of the issues raised in the interim by the Task Force on Long-Term Care Services established by the 1998 Legislature (see Committee Reports to the 1999 Kansas Legislature, Part III, pp.3-1 through 3-6). Among recommendations regarding staff retention, the Task Force included the need to identify additional training funds and making them available for the training of front-line care givers. S.C.R. 1606 is in line with that Task Force recommendation.
Randy Fitzgerald, Chairperson of the Task Force, and Senator Janice Hardenburger, member of the Task Force, spoke in favor of the Senate Concurrent Resolution as did representatives of the Kansas Association of Homes and Services for the Aging, the Kansas Council on Developmental Disabilities, and the Kansas Health Care Association.
1. *Supplemental notes are prepared by the Legislative Research Department and do not express legislative intent. The supplemental note and fiscal note for this bill may be accessed on the Internet at http://www.ink.org/public/legislative/bill_search.html.