The Behavior Analyst Advisory Committee of the Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board agreed to press the board‑approved recommendation to add a thirteenth board seat specifically for the behavior‑analysis profession and to use a practitioner survey to support testimony when the bill is heard.

David Fye, executive director for the BSRB, told members the board had endorsed the advisory committee’s request to add a behavior‑analyst member and that staff would seek a legislator to introduce the language and schedule a committee hearing. "The next step is...taking the final proposal from the board and then having them basically be introduced in front of a committee," Fye said.

Committee members discussed outreach and how best to document support. They agreed that two core talking points for testimony should be front‑and‑center: that behavior analysis is one of the fastest‑growing professions in Kansas and that the profession currently lacks a named representative on the composite BSRB. Members suggested mobilizing licensees and families — for example, via Kansas Grassroots and professional mailing lists — to attend hearings and provide short in‑person testimony.

To build evidence for the hearing, the committee spent most of the meeting finalizing questions for a planned SurveyMonkey survey. Key design decisions agreed by the group include:

• Replace a binary yes/no question about adding a board seat with a Likert scale measuring how important respondents view representation, plus an optional open‑ended box for comments;

• Ask about workforce capacity using a typical‑week frame (hours per week of clinical services) rather than solely percent estimates;

• Add a follow‑up question about weekly hours of clinical services that the respondent oversees (to capture supervisory capacity implemented by BCBA/BCaBA/RBT teams);

• Offer ranges for high‑volume supervisors (suggested ranges included under 50, 50–100, 100–200, 200–300, and over 300 hours) to ease analysis while allowing optional numeric entry for precision.

Committee members also recommended drafting a short template testimony and making an effort to have several members speak in person if the hearing schedule allows. Fye said staff will circulate the revised survey within about a week and asked members to send additional edits by email.

No formal vote was recorded at the advisory‑committee meeting on the language, but the committee reached consensus to finalize the survey and support the board’s legislative request. Fye said the board will present the final legislative agenda at a brief board meeting before introducing the proposal to the legislature.