Capitol Comments Articles
Introduction of Bills

Kansas Seal (Jan. 12, 2022) – Senate Bill 5 – By Senator Steffen
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

Senate Bill 6 – By Senator Steffen
Restricting the authority of the secretary of the Kansas Department 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

Senate Bill 7 – By Senator Steffen
Reducing income tax rates for resident individuals domiciled in a rural equity decline county

Senate Bill 9 – By Senator Steffen
Adding tianeptine to Schedule I of the Uniform Controlled Substances Act 

Senate Bill 12 – By Senators Thompson and Steffen
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 the Kansas State Board of Healing Arts licensees

Senate Bill 16 – By Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance
Discontinuing certain exemptions from the Pharmacy Benefits Manager Act

Senate Bill 20 – By Senators Steffen and Thompson
Requiring childcare 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

Senate Bill 26 – By Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance
Specifying certain requirements necessary to demonstrate fiscal soundness for health maintenance organizations and Medicare provider organizations applying for certificates of authority

Senate Bill 28 – By Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance
Discontinuing payments to certain group-funded insurance pools, refunding existing balances thereof and abolishing such funds and establishing the group-funded pools refund fund

House Bill 2007 – By Representatives Fairchild, Barth, Hill, Murphy, Proctor and Rhiley
Prohibiting the secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment from requiring a COVID-19 vaccination for care at a child care facility or attendance at a school

House Bill 2015 – By Committee on Judiciary
Authorizing the designee of an employing agency or entity to petition the court for an order requiring infectious disease testing

House Bill 2018 – By Committee on Judiciary
Permitting a will or a copy of a will filed within six months after the death of the testator to be admitted to probate at any time.

House Bill 2023 – By Representatives Concannon and Hawkins
Creating the crime of interference with the conduct of a hospital, providing criminal penalties for violation thereof and increasing the criminal penalties for the battery of a health care provider who is employed by a hospital