(Jan. 29, 2024) – Senate Bill 390 – Concerning public health; relating to medical care; enacting the Conscientious Right to Refuse Act; prohibiting discrimination against individuals who refuse certain medical interventions and creating a civil cause of action against entities who discriminate based upon such medical care refusal; revoking the authority of the secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment to order individuals to isolate or quarantine and impose penalties for violations thereof – By Committee on Public Health and Welfare
Senate Bill 391 – Concerning public health; relating to infectious or contagious diseases; changing the authority of the secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment and local health officers; naming the Constitutional Right to Health Freedom Act; revoking the authority of the secretary to order individuals to isolate or quarantine and impose penalties for violations thereof – By Committee on Public Health and Welfare
Senate Bill 392 – Concerning the prescription monitoring program; relating to the attorney general; granting the Medicaid inspector general 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 a member nominated by the office of the attorney general – By Committee on Judiciary
Senate Bill 395 – Concerning the University of Kansas Hospital Authority; requiring prior approval by the legislature or the Legislative Coordinating Council when the legislature is not in session when purchasing, leasing, trading, exchanging or otherwise acquiring, constructing, repairing, remodeling or renovating any real property or facility outside of the state of Kansas – By Committee on Ways and Means
Senate Bill 404 – Concerning health and health care; relating to the treatment of sexually transmitted diseases; permitting the use of expedited partner therapy for the treatment thereof – By Committee on Public Health and Welfare
House Bill 2578 – Concerning health and health care; relating to certified community behavioral health clinics; providing for renewal certification of programs and treatments that have been previously certified or accredited – By Committee on Health and Human Services, Requested by Representative Buehler on behalf of the Association of Community Mental Health Centers of Kansas
House Bill 2579 – Concerning health professions and practices; relating to the Kansas Board of Emergency Medical Services; authorized activities; authorizing distribution of non-prescription over-the-counter medications – By Committee on Health and Human Services, Requested by Representative Ruiz on behalf of Johnson County MED-ACT, Kansas City Kansas Fire Department, Johnson County Emergency Medical Services Physician, Mid-America Regional Council Emergency Rescue
House Bill 2580 – Concerning children and minors; relating to the revised Kansas Code for Care of Children; providing authority for a court or a guardian to consent to mental, emotional or behavioral health screening and treatment of a child alleged or adjudicated to be a child in need of care; granting immunity to providers who provide such screening and treatment in good faith; defining behavioral health treatment – By Committee on Child Welfare and Foster Care, Requested by Laura Howard on behalf of the Kansas Department for Children and Families
House Bill 2595 – Concerning insurance; relating to the Kansas State Employees Health Care Commission; mandating coverage for certain allergen introduction dietary supplements for infants; requiring submission of an impact report on such mandatory coverage to the legislature – By Representatives Butler, Bloom, Buehler, Ellis, Johnson, Schlingensiepen and
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House Bill 2596 – Concerning controlled substances; adding and removing certain substances in schedules I, II, IV and V of the Uniform Controlled Substances Act; making conforming changes to the criminal code definition of fentanyl-related controlled substances – By Committee on Health and Human Services, Requested by Representative Clifford on behalf of the State Board of Pharmacy
House Bill 2599 – Concerning the Open Records Act; relating to charges for public records requested thereunder; prohibiting charges for electronic copies and determinations of whether a record exists; limiting charges for employee time required to make records available – By Committee on K-12 Education Budget, Requested by Representative Thomas
House Bill 2614 – Concerning administrative rules and regulations; requiring state agencies to provide notice of revocation thereof; removing certain abolished or inactive state agencies from the five-year state agency review requirement – By Committee on Elections, Requested by Clay Barker, General Counsel, Kansas Secretary of State