(Feb. 24, 2023) – Substitute for Senate Bill 232 – By Committee on Judiciary
Concerning children and minors; establishing the Office of the Child Advocate as an independent state agency and prescribing certain powers, duties and functions therefor; authorizing access to certain records; relating to children in need of care; making orders granting custody for adoption subject to the federal Indian Child Welfare Act; directing the secretary for the Kansas Department of Children and families to consider foster parents as prospective adoptive parents under certain circumstances; requiring the secretary to report certain data on adoptions; authorizing the appeal of any order of placement of a child; providing for retroactivity
Senate Bill 277 – By Committee on Ways and Means
Relating to the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services; providing for the regulation of supplemental nursing services agencies; thereby, creating the Supplemental Nursing Services Agency Regulation Fund
Senate Bill 279 – By Committee on Federal and State Affairs
Concerning the Prescription Monitoring Program; relating to law enforcement officials; granting law enforcement access to the Prescription Monitoring Program database without a warrant; replacing the member of the program advisory committee representing the Kansas Bureau of Investigation with the attorney general or the attorney general's designee
Substitute for House Bill 2246 – By Committee on Judiciary
Concerning adult residential care facilities; relating to the involuntary transfer or discharge of residents from an adult residential care facility; authorizing the secretary for the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services to investigate violations; requiring the state long-term care ombudsman to publish a report
House Bill 2438 – By Committee on Federal and State Affairs
Concerning emergency medical services; eliminating the designation and certification of instructor-coordinators
House Bill 2439 – By Committee on Federal and State Affairs
Relating to medication abortions; requiring certain notifications for patients under the Woman's Right-to-Know Act
House Bill 2443 – By Committee on Appropriations
Concerning children and minors; establishing the Office of the Child Advocate as an independent state agency and the Child Advocate Advisory Board; prescribing certain powers, duties and functions thereof; allowing disclosure of confidential records to the child advocate
House Bill 2444 – By Committee on Appropriations
Concerning school districts; relating to the Kansas Department of Education and the state's network of community mental health centers; establishing the mental health intervention team program in the state statute; providing incentives for coordination between school districts and community mental health centers; creating the Mental Health Intervention Team Program Fund