(March 17, 2023) – Monday, March 20
Senate Public Health and Welfare – 8:30 a.m. – Room 142S
Hearing: House Bill 2340 – Requiring the Kansas Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board to process applications within a certain time, decreasing the years of practice required for reciprocity licensure of certain behavioral sciences professions, extending the license period for temporary licenses, establishing new license categories and decreasing continuing education requirements related to diagnosis and treatment
Senate Bill 287 – Expanding the Kansas Silver Alert plan to include persons 18 years of age or older who have dementia, a developmental disability or cognitive impairment
Senate Bill 297 – Revising the definition of "abortion" to clarify procedures that are excluded from such definition
House Bill 2288 – Enacting the Counseling Compact to provide for interstate practice privileges for professional counselors
Senate Ways and Means – 10:30 a.m. – Room 548S
Hearing: Senate Bill 307 – Adding for-profit private entity to the definition of "qualified applicant" in the Kansas Fights Addiction Act
House Health and Human Services – 1:30 p.m. – Room 112N
Hearing: House Bill 2452 – Eliminating the requirement that the State Employees' Health Care Commission offer long-term care insurance and indemnity insurance. House Bill 2439 – Requiring notification to patients that the effects of a medication abortion may be reversible
House Child Welfare and Foster Care – 1:30 p.m. – Room 152S
Hearing: Sub. for Senate Bill 232 – Establishing the Office of the Child Advocate as an independent state agency, 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 in certain circumstances and authorizing the appeal of any order of placement of a child
Tuesday, March 21
Senate Public Health and Welfare – 8:30 a.m. – Room 142S
Hearing: Senate Bill 234 – Prohibiting governmental entities from sharing or transmitting social care information into a closed-loop referral system
Senate Bill 315 – 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 Ways and Means – 10:30 a.m. – Room 548S
Hearing: Senate Bill 307 – Adding for-profit private entity to the definition of "qualified applicant" in the Kansas Fights Addiction Act
House Taxation – 3:30 p.m. – Room 346S
Hearing: House Bill 2457 – Providing an income tax rate of 4.95 percent for individuals and decreasing the normal tax for corporations, increasing the income limit for the income tax subtraction modification for social security income and providing that all social security income qualifies for the subtraction modification commencing in the tax year 2026, increasing the Kansas standard deduction for individuals and further increasing the standard deduction by a cost-of-living adjustment, discontinuing the food sales tax credit, decreasing the privilege tax surtax, establishing a 0 percent state rate for sales and use taxes for food and food ingredients on July 1, 2023, and increasing the extent of property tax exemption for residential property from the statewide school levy
Wednesday, March 22
Senate Public Health and Welfare – 8:30 a.m. – Room 142S
Hearing: Senate Bill 314 – Prohibiting the secretary of the Kansas Health and Environment from requiring COVID-19 vaccination for children attending a childcare facility or school
House Bill 2141 – Requiring custodial and non-custodial parents to cooperate with child support enforcement programs for food assistance eligibility and disqualifying such parents from food assistance for being delinquent in support payments
Senate Assessment and Taxation – 9:30 a.m. – Room 548S
Hearing: SCR 1610 – Proposing to amend Section 1 of Article 11 of the Constitution of the
State of Kansas to limit property tax valuation increases for real property
Senate Federal and State Affairs – 10:30 a.m. – Room 144S
Hearing: House Bill 2269 – Amending the Kansas Cigarette and Tobacco Products Act to raise the minimum age to 21 years old for the sale, purchase or possession of cigarettes, electronic cigarettes or tobacco
House Financial Institutions and Pensions (Mon-Wed) – 9:00 a.m. – Room 582N
Final action: Senate Bill 34 – Expanding the use and availability of rural housing incentive districts
Thursday, March 23
Senate Public Health and Welfare – 8:30 a.m. – Room 142S
Hearing: House Bill 2240 – Requiring the clerk of the district court to give notice of qualified residential treatment program placement
House Bill 2260 – Increasing the number of medical student loan agreements that may be provided by the University of Kansas School of Medicine and prohibiting impediments to switching between residency programs
Friday, March 24