Votes at a glance: selected motions and committee outcomes from the Senate Ways and Means meeting

Below are selected motions and formal actions recorded during the committee session. Where the transcript recorded a voice vote the outcome is listed; roll-call tallies were not consistently recorded in the transcript.

1) KDADS — Meals on Wheels - Motion: Add $2,000,000 to senior nutrition (increase House addition to $3,000,000 total) - Mover: Senator Klooz; Second: Senator Fagg - Outcome: Approved (committee voice vote recorded as aye)

2) KDADS — CMHC grants - Motion: Delete $6,000,000 one-time CMHC grant addition included by the House (Senate conference posture) - Mover: Senator Peck; Second: Senator Clays - Outcome: Approved (committee adopted deletion as conference position)

3) KDADS — IDD waiver slots and cap - Motion: Add $5,000,000 SGF and 80 additional IDD waiver slots (increase total new slots to 500) and lower proposed wait-list cap to 3,800 - Mover: Senator Alley; Second: Senator Peterson - Outcome: Approved

4) KDADS — Brain injury waiver rates - Motion: Add $3,500,000 to augment House addition for brain injury waiver rates - Mover: Senator Erickson; Second: Senator Petty - Outcome: Approved

5) KDADS — Homeless shelter renovation (Liberal) - Motion: Delete $830,000 House appropriation for shelter renovation - Mover: Senator Peck; Second: Senator Clays - Outcome: Approved (deleted for Senate conference posture)

6) DCF — Summer EBT fraud reimbursement and proviso placeholder - Motion: Add $10,000 SGF (FY2026) to reimburse summer EBT fraud claims; reserve proviso language to restrict card purchases to Kansas (conference placeholder) - Mover: Senator Clayse; Second: Senator Peck - Outcome: Approved

7) DCF — Foster care replacement funding - Motion: Add $8,000,000 SGF to replace federal dollars used for foster care benefits - Mover: Senator Petty; Second: Senator Holscher - Outcome: Failed

8) KDHE — Medicaid outpatient rate increase (conference position) - Motion: Add $20,000,000 SGF and $50,000,000 all funds for FY2026 to increase hospital outpatient Medicaid rates - Mover: Senator Fagg; Second: Senator Clouse - Outcome: Approved

9) KDHE — Gainwell Technologies contract funding - Motion: Appropriate specified SGF and all-funds for FY2025 and FY2026 to cover increased contract expenditures with Gainwell Technologies - Mover: Senator Fagg; Second: Senator Clouse - Outcome: Approved

10) KDHE — Deletion of 30 House-restored FTEs - Motion: Do not add 30 FTE positions that the House restored (positions funded by federal funds) - Mover: Senator Peck; Second: Senator Erickson - Outcome: Approved

11) KDHE — TB control funding - Motion: Add $96,000 SGF for TB control efforts - Mover: Senator Petty; Second: Senator Holscher - Outcome: Approved

12) KDHE — Medicaid eligibility 12-month continuous termination - Motion: Eliminate 12-month continuous eligibility for able-bodied adults, move to month-to-month eligibility - Mover: Senator Erickson; Second: Senator Clays - Outcome: Approved (committee debate noted administrative cost concerns and estimated $4–9 million annual savings)

Notes on voting and record-keeping

- The transcript records voice votes and several explicit "aye"/"no" statements but does not include roll-call tallies for every motion. Where the transcript explicitly recorded a count or hand raise, that detail is summarized in the meeting record; otherwise the committee reported outcomes by voice.

Provenance

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