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Senate Public Health and Welfare committee introduces multiple bills, including Abolish Abortion Act and naloxone statutory change
Summary
The Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee introduced eight committee bills, including an "Abolish Abortion Act," naloxone statutory changes and proposals on newborn screening, athletic trainers, massage-therapy licensing, eye-drop refills, fetal alcohol spectrum disorders and "right to try," and members recorded no objections.
The Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee introduced eight bills as committee bills during a meeting where members raised no objections, committee leaders said.
The most prominent items included RS0783, described in the meeting as the "Abolish Abortion Act" by Senator Murphy; a bill on annual newborn screening (25RS1017); and RS0852, a proposal to remove obsolete statutory requirements tied to naloxone use, introduced by law-enforcement associations. Ed Klump, representing the Kansas Sheriff's Association, the Kansas Association of Chiefs of Police and the Kansas Peace Officers Association, said of naloxone: "When naloxone first came…
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