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Senate Judiciary Committee hears bill to expand medical hearsay exception to 'health care providers'
Summary
Senate Bill 127, which would expand an existing Kansas hearsay exception by replacing the word “physician” with “health care provider,” drew a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee where prosecutors and legislators debated scope and safeguards.
Senate Bill 127, which would expand an existing Kansas hearsay exception by replacing the word “physician” with “health care provider,” drew a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Aaron Breitenbach, deputy district attorney in Sedgwick County, testified for the Kansas County and District Attorneys Association in support of the change and said the amendment updates the statute to reflect that many patients now give information to nurses and other non‑physician clinicians rather than to a physician.
The bill would amend the statute identified in committee as “KSA 64 60,” the committee’s reviser said, by changing the phrase that currently makes admissible certain out‑of‑court statements made “to…
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