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Kansas committee approves bill to authorize South Central Regional Mental Health Hospital
Summary
The House Committee on Health and Human Services voted to pass HB 2365, which adds the South Central Regional Mental Health Hospital to state statute, sets a fee fund, and updates cross-references; the measure includes a plan for a 104-bed facility in south Wichita with construction expected to finish in late 2026.
The House Committee on Health and Human Services voted to move House Bill 2365 favorably after amending county designations, authorizing the South Central Regional Mental Health Hospital in statute and creating a hospital fee fund.
The bill adds the new hospital to state law as a state psychiatric hospital, updates statutory cross-references that now list the South Central Regional Mental Health Hospital alongside existing state facilities, and creates the South Central Regional Mental Health Hospital fee fund to hold related receipts, according to Jenna Moyer, adviser in the Revisor of Statutes office.
The measure, as described by Scott Bruner, deputy secretary for the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services (KDADS), authorizes a 104-bed facility in south Wichita intended to serve adults committed for involuntary treatment under the Care Treatment Act and criminal defendants needing competency services. Bruner said Sedgwick County is the primary construction partner:…
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