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Social Services Committee reopens KDHE, approves KDHE and KDADS budget amendments and targeted allocations
Summary
The Committee on Social Services Budget voted to add targeted SGF and ARPA funding to health and disability programs, amended KDHE and KDADS budgets, moved a $1 million training line to FY2027, and approved a $224.9M governor’s package to stand up the Office of Early Childhood. Votes were voice votes; provisos were included in the governor’s package.
The House Committee on Social Services Budget reopened the Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) budget and approved multiple amendments before advancing both KDHE and the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services (KDADS) budgets as amended.
Representative Steens moved to add proviso language directing $750,000 in state general funds for CPR and AED grants to KDHE for fiscal year 2027; the committee seconded the recommendation and approved it by voice vote. The chair then moved—and the committee approved—final passage of the KDHE budget as amended and closed the KDHE hearing.
The committee considered a suite of KDADS items described in staff materials, ranging from…
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