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Kansas BSRB finalizes 2025 legislative priorities, including licensure and supervision changes
Summary
At a remote meeting the Kansas Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board agreed to seek statutory language this session to expand a student temporary addiction-counselor license, allow limited cross‑professional supervision for professional counselors, add a behavior-analyst board seat, establish a paid program‑review option for schools, and broaden continuing-education preapproval.
The Kansas Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board on a remote call approved a set of priorities it will ask lawmakers to carry or sponsor in the 2025 legislative session, including changes aimed at easing workforce bottlenecks and clarifying supervision and program-review processes.
Executive Director David Fey told the board that staff will draft statutory language and seek committee sponsors to introduce bills. "This is one of those opportunities for the board to basically review items that it has previously recommended, going forward in requesting legislation," Fey said, outlining the path from drafting to committee hearings and potential passage.
Why it matters: board members and staff said the proposals respond to workforce and training shortages in behavioral-health professions across Kansas. Fey and staff cited outreach this year — a forum attended by roughly 40 educators and 50–60 employers — and a federal grant collaboration with KDADS and the Board of Regents to study workforce needs.
Major items approved for the board to carry forward
• Student temporary addiction-counselor license expansion: The board agreed to request statutory language to broaden who may qualify for the…
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