House Health Committee opens session, introduces series of health-related bills and schedules Southeast Kansas CCBHC briefing
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The Committee on House Health and Human Services opened with member introductions and entered multiple bills on physician assistant practice agreements, nursing-board procedures and fingerprinting, pharmacy compounding and controlled-substance updates, tort-claims coverage for child-welfare providers, and adding APRNs to the health-care stabilization fund. The committee also scheduled a Southeast Kansas CCBHC briefing for next Tuesday.
The Committee on House Health and Human Services convened for member introductions and housekeeping before entering multiple health-related bill introductions and scheduling a Southeast Kansas briefing.
Chair Representative Will Carpenter opened the meeting and emphasized committee communications procedures, advising members, “Do not hit reply all ever,” to avoid inadvertent quorum communications. After roll call and staff introductions, the committee heard a series of bill introductions.
Doug Smith of the Kansas Academy of Physician Associates asked the committee to introduce RS 26-2777, saying the measure “would amend the physician assistant licensure act, regarding collaborative agreements and practice agreements between physicians and PAs.” The request was entered by the committee without objection.
Representative Melissa Orpayson introduced two measures on behalf of the Kansas State Board of Nursing. She described the first as a technical update related to fingerprinting requirements for CRNAs and APRNs (spoken as RS2689) and the second as changes to how investigations are handled by the Kansas State Board of Nursing (the committee recorded an RS number later clarified as RS2501). Both bills were entered with no objections.
Chair Carpenter announced a bill to add child-welfare providers to the Tort Claims Act (spoken as RS2802/RS2803), which the committee entered. He also introduced two Board of Pharmacy requests: an update to the Controlled Substance Act (spoken as RS2818) and a compounding-of-drugs act (spoken as RS2811); both were entered without objection.
Carpenter said the committee also would take up a bill to add advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) to the health care stabilization fund (spoken as RS2710), and the bill was entered. Carpenter offered himself as a contact for members with questions about that measure.
The chair told members that a group representing Southeast Kansas — described as the Southeast Kansas CCBHC — will appear before the committee next Tuesday to answer questions about a situation in that region and that staff had circulated and would circulate additional materials ahead of that meeting.
Several career and technical student organization delegates (FFA, TSA, FBLA, DECA) introduced themselves to the committee before Carpenter adjourned the meeting.
No formal votes were recorded during the session; the actions taken were introductions and the committee’s agreement to enter the bills for future consideration. The committee is scheduled to receive the Southeast Kansas CCBHC delegation at its next meeting.