Next Week's Schedule
(March 3, 2023) - Next week in the legislature, committee work will pick up as the budgets for both the House and Senate near completion. The legislature will likely see additional bills on each chamber floor as well as they make their way through the month that comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb, otherwise known as March Madness.
Monday, March 6
Senate Public Health and Welfare 8:30 am 142S
Hearing: House Bill 2033 — Changing the criteria used to refer and admit juveniles to a juvenile crisis intervention center.
Senate Judiciary 10:30 am 346S
Hearing: Senate Bill 258 — Enacting the act against abusive access litigation to create a civil action for determining whether litigation that alleges any access violation under the Americans with disabilities act or similar law constitutes abusive litigation and authorize penalties for such abusive litigation.
House Health and Human Services 1:30 pm 112N
Hearing: Senate Bill 180 — Establishing the women's bill of rights to provide a meaning of biological sex for purposes of statutory construction.
House Higher Education Budget 1:30 pm 281N
Discussion: Budget Recommendations
House Child Welfare and Foster Care 1:30 pm 152S
Hearing: House Bill 2443 — Establishing the office of the child advocate
Tuesday, March 7
Senate Public Health and Welfare 8:30 am 142S
Presentation: Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas
Hearing: House Bill 2125 — Providing for charitable event permits and demonstration permits for body art services, authorizing cease and desist orders against unlicensed providers of body art services and requiring related administrative actions to be in accordance with the Kansas administrative procedure act and reviewable under the Kansas judicial review act.
Senate Financial Institutions and Insurance 9:30 am 546S
Hearing: House Bill 2094 — Specifying certain requirements necessary to demonstrate fiscal soundness for health maintenance organizations and Medicare provider organizations applying for certificates of authority
Senate Judiciary 10:30 am 346S
Hearing: House Bill 2214 — Changing the name of the Larned correctional mental health facility to the Larned state correctional facility and removing references to facilities that no longer exist
Senate Ways and Means 10:30 am 548S
Final action: Senate Bill 153 — Making and concerning supplemental appropriations for fiscal years 2023 and 2024 for various state agencies.
Senate Bill 155 — Appropriations for FY 2024, FY 2025 and FY 2026 for various state agencies
House Appropriations 9:00 am 112N
Budget report out: Department of Administration - Chairperson Hoffman, General Government Budget
House Federal and State Affairs 9:00 am 346S
Hearing: House Bill 2438 — Eliminating the instructor-coordinator's certificate requirement associated with the teaching of emergency medical services courses.
House Health and Human Services 1:30 pm 112N
Presentation on: Community Health Centers/SEK
Hearing: House Bill 2429 — Establishing the alternatives to abortion program to provide resources and promote childbirth to women facing unplanned pregnancies.
Wednesday, March 8
Senate Public Health and Welfare 8:30 am 142S
Hearing: House Bill 2262 — Allowing six months of an embalmer apprenticeship to be completed prior to an individual attending mortuary science school
Senate Assessment and Taxation 9:30 a.m. 548S
Briefing by staff on: Tax/Budget: Eddie Penner and JG Scott, Legislative Research Department
Senate Ways and Means 10:30 am 548S
Final action: Senate Bill 153 — Making and concerning supplemental appropriations for fiscal years 2023 and 2024 for various state agencies.
Senate Bill 155 — Appropriations for FY 2024, FY 2025 and FY 2026 for various state agencies
Senate Education 1:30 pm 144S
Hearing: House Bill 2138 — Creating the career technical education credential and transition incentive for employment success act to provide additional state aid to certain school districts for students who obtain career technical education credentials
House Appropriations 9:00 am 112N
Hearing: House Bill 2273 — Appropriations for FY 2024, FY 2025 and FY 2026 for various state agencies.
House Bill 2274 — Making and concerning supplemental appropriations for fiscal years 2023 and 2024 for various state agencies.
Budget report out: Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services - Chairperson Mason, Social Services Budget Department for Children and Families - Chairperson Mason, Social Services Budget
House Health and Human Services 1:30 pm 112N
Hearing: House Bill 2313 — Creating the born-alive infants protection act to provide legal protections for infants who are born alive regardless of the intent of the delivery
House Child Welfare and Foster Care 1:30 pm 152S
Informational hearing: Foster Care and Mental Health
House Corrections and Juvenile Justice 1:30 pm 546S
Hearing: Senate Bill 228 — Modernizing statutes concerning county jails, removing the requirement that every county shall have a jail, modifying procedures used when district courts commit prisoners to jail in another county and when counties contract with city jails to keep prisoners and requiring a medical examination before certain United States prisoners or city prisoners are taken into custody of a county jail.
Thursday, March 9
Senate Public Health and Welfare 8:30 am 142S
Hearing: House Bill 2390 — Establishing the Kansas overdose fatality review board and excluding tests to detect the presence of fentanyl, ketamine, flunitrazepam or gamma hydroxybutyric acid in a substance from the definition of drug paraphernalia
Senate Judiciary 10:30 am 346S
Hearing: House Bill 2070 — Allowing certain nondrug offenders to participate in a certified drug abuse treatment program.
Senate Ways and Means 10:30 am 548S
Final action: Senate Bill 153 — Making and concerning supplemental appropriations for fiscal years 2023 and 2024 for various state agencies.
Senate Bill 155 — Appropriations for FY 2024, FY 2025 and FY 2026 for various state agencies
Friday, March 10