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Committee advances three bills: waivers for rural hospitals, ombudsman memory-care training, law-enforcement naloxone exemption
Summary
The Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee voted to pass Senate Bill 82 and Senate Bill 88 out of committee and approved a substitute for Senate Bill 193 that exempts law-enforcement agencies from certain medical-director requirements for carrying opioid antagonists; one amendment to SB 88 failed in committee.
The Kansas Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee took final action on three separate measures at the same meeting where it heard testimony on Senate Bill 67.
Senate Bill 82 (moved and passed)
Senate Bill 82 would require the secretary for Aging and Disability Services to grant physical-environment waivers to allow certain rural emergency hospitals to convert swing beds to skilled nursing facility beds. Committee staff summarized the bill as a narrowly targeted statutory change to permit rural facilities to adapt bed designations to local needs. Senator Tom Thompson moved the bill for favorable passage; the motion was seconded and the committee passed the bill by voice vote. The transcript records a voice vote but does not provide a roll-call tally.
Senate Bill 88 (moved and passed; amendment failed)
Senate Bill…
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