Sponsors: Public Health and Welfare

Providing for short-term, limited-duration health plans.

Senate Substitute for HB 2280 by Committee on Public Health and Welfare – Authorizing the prescribing and dispensing of medications for off-label use to prevent and treat COVID-19 infections and requiring child care facilities and schools to grant religious exemptions from vaccination requirements without inquiring into the sincerity of such religious beliefs.

Senate substitute for HB 2279 by committee on public health and welfare – Amending the advanced practice registered nurse authorized scope of practice to permit the prescribing of drugs without a supervising physician.

Requiring able-bodied adults without dependents to complete an employment and training program in order to receive food assistance, requiring state agencies to conduct cross-checks to verify public assistance recipient eligibility and to receive public assistance, requiring the department for health and environment seek approval to eliminate mandatory hospital presumptive eligibility, requiring hospitals to follow standards established for presumptive eligibility determinations and requiring state agencies to make data from fraud investigations into food assistance and medical assistance publicly available on such agencies’ websites.

Amending the advanced practice registered nurse authorized scope of practice to permit the prescribing of drugs without a supervising physician.

Substitute for SB 238 by Committee on Public Health and Welfare – Requiring emergency medical services operators be overseen by medical directors or physicians; clarifying duties and functions of the state board of pharmacy; providing for confidentiality of investigations, inspections and audits; establishing fees on out-of-state facilities; defining telepharmacy and requiring the adoption of rules and regulations related thereto.

Requiring child care facilities and schools to grant religious exemptions from vaccination requirements without inquiring into the sincerity of the religious beliefs.

Providing for separate licensure authority for maternity centers.

Removing certain regulatory authority concerning infectious or contagious diseases from the secretary of health and environment.

Directing the Kansas department for children and families to share certain information with investigating law enforcement agencies.