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Kansas Legislature: 2010 session

Below you'll find a list of bills which KMS is following this session. You can learn more about a piece of legislation by clicking on the bill number; there you'll find information about KMS' position and the bill's status. If you have any questions about a bill or need more information, contact Dan Morin, KMS Director of Government Affairs.

Bill Tracker
Bill #	Title & Brief Description:	Date
HB 2109	Kansas Uniform Health Care Decisions Act Repeals existing advanced directive and appointment of agent law. Also repeals the pre-hospital DNR ...	01.20.10
HB 2221	Smoking ban Formerly Senate Bill 25. Prohibits smoking at indoor public places and places of employment with ex...	02.26.10
HB 2288	Health care pricing transparency Would require that upon receiving a written request from a patient, a health care provider must prov...	03.05.10
HB 2447	ARNP; independent practice Would allow nurse practitioners to practice completely autonomously and prescribe drugs without any ...	02.26.10
HB 2448	Pharmacists; administration of vaccines Would allow a pharmacist, or a pharmacy student or intern under pharmacist supervision to administer...	03.05.10
HB 2575	Naturopathy Would allow licensure of naturopaths. Also removes the prohibition on prescribing or administering p...	03.05.10
HB 2584	Optometrists; medicated contact lenses Would allow optometrists to dispense timed, or extended, release medicated contact lenses beyond a 2...	03.05.10
HB 2619	CRNA practice and delegation Follow up introduction to 2536 by Kansas Association of Nurse Anesthetists. Would give certified reg...	03.05.10
HB 2682	Health insurance and taxation Would allow a small employer who does not offer a group health insurance plan to contribute to the p...	03.05.10
HB 2723	HMO privilege fee Health maintenance organizations and medicare provider organizations currently pay a privilege fee ...	03.05.10
SB 62	Tuberculosis evaluation requirements at colleges/universities Current tuberculosis evaluation requirements address certain students entering "college or universi...	03.05.10
SB 136	Reimbursement from health plans; "Most favored nation" clause Prohibits a health plan from including contract provisions which (1) prohibits, or grants the health...	02.26.10
SB 147	HIV tests for pregnant women Requires a physician or other professional who is otherwise authorized by law to provide medical tr...	01.01.10
SB 166	Medicaid mental health drugs Would allow the establishment of a Preffered Drug List (PDL) for mental health drugs/prescriptions....	01.01.10
SB 249	Drug dosage form substitution Would allow pharmacists licensed in Kansas to substitute dosage forms of an orally administered pres...	01.01.10
SB 252	Medical payment rates for offenders in custody Bill to include the Department of Corrections and the Juvenile Justice Authority within a statute pr...	01.01.10
SB 308	Licensing fees; 20% administrative fee charged to fee funded licensing agencies Would essentially increase the transfer of funding from $200,000 to $350,000 annually from the Board...	01.01.10
SB 374	"I'm sorry" legislation Commonly referred to as "Im sorry" legislation, the bill would make inadmissible in any liability c...	02.19.10
SB 389	Dental provider contracts; non-covered services Would prohibit health insurers from setting fees for services provided by dentists that are not cove...	03.05.10
SB 390	Genetic testing by insurance carriers; providing reimbursement for orally administered anticancer medications Would enact new law to specify insurance coverage provisions for orally administered anticancer med...	02.19.10
SB 414	Health Care Stabilization Fund repayment Would prohibit the governor from using the allotment process, which will protect the HCSF and avoid ...	03.05.10
SB 449	Audiologists; licensure requirements Requires that any individual seeking licensure as an audiologist on or after January 1, 2012, posses...	03.04.10
SB 490	Physical Therapy licensure Would amend the Physical Therapist Act to add federally active and exempt to the types of licens...	03.05.10
SB 500	Use of M.D. This legislation makes a largely technical change in the Healing Arts Act to clarify that MDs, DOs, ...	03.05.10
SB 516	Increase taxes upon cigarettes and tobacco products Would increase the cigarette tax, tobacco products tax, and retail sales and compensating use tax. T...	03.05.10

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