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SB 82KANSASSession 2025-2026State BillSigned into law
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Kansas permits rural emergency hospitals to transition swing beds into skilled nursing facility beds

Original title: AN ACT concerning taxation; relating to income tax; providing a tax credit for expenditures for lockable gun and ammunition storage; providing a tax credit for the retail sale of higher ethanol blends of fuel; discontinuing the tax credit for qualified alternative-fueled motor vehicle property or fueling station expenditures; repealing unused tax credits relating to agritourism liability insurance, assistive technology contributions, declared disaster capital investment, owners promoting employment across Kansas and swine facility improvement; providing for credits for payment of employee's child care related expenses and certain employer contributions to expand community child care availability for the child day care services assistance tax credit; amending K.S.A. 65-7107 and 79-32,201 and K.S.A. 2025 Supp. 79-32,190 and repealing the existing sections; also repealing K.S.A. 79-32,204, 79-32,262 and 79-32,266 and K.S.A. 2025 Supp. 32-1438.

Last action · April 10, 2026: Motion to suspend Joint Rule 4 (k) to allow consideration adopted

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What This Bill Does

The Kansas Legislature requires the secretary for aging and disability services to grant physical environment waivers allowing certain s to transition up to 10 into skilled nursing facility beds, effective upon publication.

Why it matters

Qualifying s gain regulatory flexibility to provide up to 10 skilled nursing facility beds by utilizing existing nursing facility physical environments, altering local long-term care availability.

Who It Affects

Groups the bill's text affects, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.

Directly affected

Rural emergency hospitals

Rural emergency hospitals become eligible to apply for physical environment waivers to transition up to 10 swing beds into skilled nursing facility beds.

Directly affected

Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services

The secretary for aging and disability services is required to grant physical environment waivers to qualifying applicant hospitals.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Which hospitals are eligible to receive a waiver to transition swing beds?
s that were licensed as a hospital immediately prior to their current licensure and provided skilled nursing facility or critical access hospital swing bed services for at least one year without a are eligible.
How many swing beds can be transitioned under this waiver?
Eligible s can transition not more than 10 to skilled nursing facility beds.

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Where This Stands

Current status: Signed into law.

Procedural history

40 actions
  1. Apr 10, 2026HouseFloor
    Motion to suspend Joint Rule 4 (k) to allow consideration adopted
  2. Apr 10, 2026HouseFloor
    Conference Committee Report not adopted; Representative Hawkins, Representative Croft, Representative Sawyer, , appointed as third conferees
  3. Apr 10, 2026SenateFloor
    Motion to suspend Joint Rule 4 (k) to allow consideration adopted
  4. Apr 10, 2026SenateFloor
    Motion to accede adopted; Senator Masterson, Senator Blasi, Senator Corson, , appointed as fourth conferees
  5. Apr 10, 2026House
    Conference committee report now available
  6. Apr 10, 2026House
    Substitute motion to not adopt and appoint a conference committee failed
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  1. Apr 10, 2026HouseFloor
    Conference Committee Report was adopted
  2. Apr 10, 2026SenateFloor
    Conference Committee Report was adopted
  3. Apr 10, 2026Senate
    Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, April 17, 2026
  4. Apr 10, 2026SenateEnrolled
    Approved by Governor on Monday, April 27, 2026
  5. Apr 9, 2026House
    Representative Hawkins and Representative Croft are appointed to replace Representative Smith and Representative Turner on the Conference Committee
  6. Apr 9, 2026Senate
    Senator Masterson and Senator Blasi are appointed to replace Senator Tyson and Senator Peck on the Conference Committee
  7. Apr 9, 2026House
    Conference committee report now available
  8. Mar 24, 2026HouseFloor
    Motion to accede adopted; Representative Smith, Representative Turner, Representative Sawyer, , appointed as conferees
  9. Mar 23, 2026SenateFloor
    Conference Committee Report not adopted; Senator Tyson, Senator Peck, Senator Corson, , appointed as third conferees
  10. Apr 11, 2025House
    Conference committee report now available
  11. Apr 11, 2025HouseFloor
    Conference Committee Report agree to disagree adopted; Representative Smith, Representative Turner, Representative Sawyer, , appointed as second conferees
  12. Apr 11, 2025SenateFloor
    Conference Committee Report agree to disagree adopted; Senator Tyson, Senator Peck, Senator Corson, , appointed as second conferees
  13. Apr 11, 2025House
    Conference committee report now available
  14. Apr 11, 2025HouseFloor
    Motion to suspend Joint Rule 4 (k) to allow consideration adopted
  15. Apr 11, 2025HouseFloor
    Conference Committee Report was adopted
  16. Mar 27, 2025Senate
    Senator Tyson, Senator Peck, and Senator Corson are appointed to replace Senator Gossage, Senator Clifford, and Senator Holscher on the Conference Committee
  17. Mar 27, 2025House
    Representative Smith, Representative Turner, and Representative Sawyer are appointed to replace Representative Carpenter, Representative Bryce, and Representative Ruiz on the Conference Committee
  18. Mar 13, 2025HouseFloor
    Motion to accede adopted; Representative Carpenter, Representative Bryce, Representative Ruiz, , appointed as conferees
  19. Mar 12, 2025HouseFloor
    Final Action - Passed as amended
  20. Mar 12, 2025Senate
    Nonconcurred with amendments; Conference Committee requested; appointed , and
  21. Mar 11, 2025House
    Committee of the Whole - Now working on
  22. Mar 11, 2025HouseFloor
    Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
  23. Mar 11, 2025HouseFloor
    Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended
  24. Mar 5, 2025HouseFloor
    Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by
  25. Mar 3, 2025House
    Hearing: Monday, March 3, 2025, 1:30 PM — Room 112-N
  26. Feb 19, 2025SenateFloor
    Final Action - Passed
  27. Feb 19, 2025HouseIntroduced
    Received and Introduced
  28. Feb 19, 2025HouseCommittee
    Referred to House Committee on Health and Human Services
  29. Feb 18, 2025Senate
    Committee of the Whole - Now working on
  30. Feb 18, 2025SenateFloor
    Committee of the Whole - Be passed
  31. Feb 13, 2025SenateFloor
    Committee Report recommending bill be passed by
  32. Feb 11, 2025Senate
    Hearing: Tuesday, February 11, 2025, 8:30 AM — Room 142-S
  33. Jan 28, 2025SenateCommittee
    Referred to Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare
  34. Jan 27, 2025SenateIntroduced
    Introduced

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Regulatory Flexibility for Rural Facilities

The legislation introduces a targeted mechanism for rural emergency hospitals to convert acute-use swing beds into specialized skilled nursing facility beds.

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