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Kansas Department of Health and Environment
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AN ACT concerning child care facilities; relating to licensure of family foster homes; requiring the secretary for children and families to allow maintenance of licensure of family foster homes when certain persons with convictions or adjudications reside in such homes; permitting the secretary, when not required, to license or allow maintenance of licensure when certain persons reside in such homes; creating an appeal process for family foster homes; amending K.S.A. 2025 Supp. 65-516 and repealing the existing section.“State department handling health background checks and facility regulations”AN ACT concerning health and healthcare; relating to the Kansas department of health and environment; establishing the fetal alcohol spectrum disorders task force; providing for the membership and dissolution thereof; requiring the study of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.AN ACT concerning public health and the environment; relating to solid waste; enacting the Kansas organic waste land application accountability act; regulating the land application of biosolids and organic waste materials, except when applied by a bona fide farmer conducting normal farming operations on land owned or leased by such farmer; establishing the permitting, testing, sampling, documentation, setbacks, operational limitations, odor and dust abatement requirements; defining nuisance conditions; authorizing the secretary of health and environment or the applicable county to issue cease and desist orders or impose civil penalties in response to any violation of the act; authorizing counties to adopt additional restrictions and investigate complaints, conduct inspections, collect samples and enforce the act concurrently with the secretary.AN ACT concerning children and minors; changing the name of juvenile crisis intervention centers to juvenile stabilization centers; modifying the intake criteria for such centers; prohibiting certain rules and regulations for such centers; modifying the treatment and services provided by such centers; transferring moneys from the evidence-based programs account of the state general fund to the department for children and families to provide juvenile stabilization services; amending K.S.A. 38-2232, 38-2242 and 75-7023 and K.S.A. 2025 Supp. 38-2243, 38-2330, 65-536 and 75-52,164 and repealing the existing sections.AN ACT concerning water; relating to the department of health and environment; establishing a pump installation contractor license and qualifications for applicants therefor; allowing applicants for water well contractor and pump installation contractor licenses to take examinations online; adding additional qualifications for applicants of water well contractor licenses; requiring additional information to be included in the water well record as required by the secretary; requiring a water well contractor to provide a water quality analysis to the secretary upon request within 60 days of well completion or within an extended timeframe granted by the secretary; requiring the water quality analysis to be conducted by a Kansas certified laboratory; requiring pump installation contractors to keep a record of each pump installed and submit the record to the secretary within 30 days; requiring the pump installation record to include certain data as required by the secretary; requiring the entire amount of any penalty collected under the act to be deposited in the water program management fund instead of the state general fund; amending K.S.A. 82a-1202, 82a-1203, 82a-1205, 82a-1207, 82a-1209, 82a-1210, 82a-1212, 82a-1213, 82a-1214 and 82a-1216 and K.S.A. 2025 Supp. 82a-1206; also repealing K.S.A. 82a-1218.AN ACT concerning public assistance; relating to the secretary for children and families; eliminating certain restrictions for eligibility for public assistance; removing the requirement to cooperate with child support services for eligibility; extending the lifetime limitation of temporary assistance for needy families to 60 months; providing for hardship extensions to be granted by the secretary for children and families; exempting parents providing care for a child less than one year of age from work participation activities; eliminating restrictions on persons convicted of drug felonies from receiving food assistance; permitting the secretary to grant categorical eligibility standards; eliminating photograph requirements on benefits cards; eliminating requirements for employment and training programs for certain individuals to be eligible for food assistance; eliminating legislative action to be required for expansion of the medical assistance program; amending K.S.A. 39-702 and K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 39-709 and repealing the existing sections.AN ACT concerning public assistance; relating to the secretary for children and families and the secretary of health and environment; directing the secretaries to enter into agreements with commercial entities and state agencies for the continuous review and comparison of data for public assistance eligibility; requiring the secretary for children and families to review federal sources to verify such eligibility.AN ACT concerning abortion; relating to health professions and practices; requiring that certain abortion complications be reported to the Kansas department of health and environment.AN ACT concerning agriculture; relating to the application of swine waste; prohibiting certain applications except with low-pressure drop nozzles within an average height of three feet and using secretary-approved methods; requiring contour buffer strips for application on land with slopes of 3% or greater; establishing setback rules for property lines, road rights-of-way, habitable structures, refuges and parks; requiring applicators to prevent nuisance conditions; amending K.S.A. 65-1,182 and repealing the existing section.AN ACT concerning adult care homes; relating to enhancing adult care home services; providing for adult care home workforce development through scholarships for part-time nursing students; setting minimum education levels for instructors at nursing schools; establishing the intergenerational child care program to enhance the adult care home environment by supporting adult care homes offering child care services through the awarding of grants by the secretary of health and environment; creating the intergenerational child care fund; authorizing the secretary to administer the fund; amending K.S.A. 65-1119 and K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 74-3293 and repealing the existing sections.
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- Connected billsAN ACT concerning child care facilities; relating to licensure of family foster homes; requiring the secretary for children and families to allow maintenance of licensure of family foster homes when certain persons with convictions or adjudications reside in such homes; permitting the secretary, when not required, to license or allow maintenance of licensure when certain persons reside in such homes; creating an appeal process for family foster homes; amending K.S.A. 2025 Supp. 65-516 and repealing the existing section., AN ACT concerning health and healthcare; relating to the Kansas department of health and environment; establishing the fetal alcohol spectrum disorders task force; providing for the membership and dissolution thereof; requiring the study of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders., AN ACT concerning public health and the environment; relating to solid waste; enacting the Kansas organic waste land application accountability act; regulating the land application of biosolids and organic waste materials, except when applied by a bona fide farmer conducting normal farming operations on land owned or leased by such farmer; establishing the permitting, testing, sampling, documentation, setbacks, operational limitations, odor and dust abatement requirements; defining nuisance conditions; authorizing the secretary of health and environment or the applicable county to issue cease and desist orders or impose civil penalties in response to any violation of the act; authorizing counties to adopt additional restrictions and investigate complaints, conduct inspections, collect samples and enforce the act concurrently with the secretary. (+25 more)
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- Apr 9, 2026State BillAN ACT concerning child care facilities; relating to licensure of family foster homes; requiring the secretary for children and families to allow maintenance of licensure of family foster homes when certain persons with convictions or adjudications reside in such homes; permitting the secretary, when not required, to license or allow maintenance of licensure when certain persons reside in such homes; creating an appeal process for family foster homes; amending K.S.A. 2025 Supp. 65-516 and repealing the existing section.
- Apr 10, 2026State BillAN ACT concerning health and healthcare; relating to the Kansas department of health and environment; establishing the fetal alcohol spectrum disorders task force; providing for the membership and dissolution thereof; requiring the study of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.
- Apr 10, 2026State BillAN ACT concerning public health and the environment; relating to solid waste; enacting the Kansas organic waste land application accountability act; regulating the land application of biosolids and organic waste materials, except when applied by a bona fide farmer conducting normal farming operations on land owned or leased by such farmer; establishing the permitting, testing, sampling, documentation, setbacks, operational limitations, odor and dust abatement requirements; defining nuisance conditions; authorizing the secretary of health and environment or the applicable county to issue cease and desist orders or impose civil penalties in response to any violation of the act; authorizing counties to adopt additional restrictions and investigate complaints, conduct inspections, collect samples and enforce the act concurrently with the secretary.
- Apr 10, 2026State BillAN ACT concerning children and minors; changing the name of juvenile crisis intervention centers to juvenile stabilization centers; modifying the intake criteria for such centers; prohibiting certain rules and regulations for such centers; modifying the treatment and services provided by such centers; transferring moneys from the evidence-based programs account of the state general fund to the department for children and families to provide juvenile stabilization services; amending K.S.A. 38-2232, 38-2242 and 75-7023 and K.S.A. 2025 Supp. 38-2243, 38-2330, 65-536 and 75-52,164 and repealing the existing sections.
- Feb 19, 2026State BillAN ACT concerning water; relating to the department of health and environment; establishing a pump installation contractor license and qualifications for applicants therefor; allowing applicants for water well contractor and pump installation contractor licenses to take examinations online; adding additional qualifications for applicants of water well contractor licenses; requiring additional information to be included in the water well record as required by the secretary; requiring a water well contractor to provide a water quality analysis to the secretary upon request within 60 days of well completion or within an extended timeframe granted by the secretary; requiring the water quality analysis to be conducted by a Kansas certified laboratory; requiring pump installation contractors to keep a record of each pump installed and submit the record to the secretary within 30 days; requiring the pump installation record to include certain data as required by the secretary; requiring the entire amount of any penalty collected under the act to be deposited in the water program management fund instead of the state general fund; amending K.S.A. 82a-1202, 82a-1203, 82a-1205, 82a-1207, 82a-1209, 82a-1210, 82a-1212, 82a-1213, 82a-1214 and 82a-1216 and K.S.A. 2025 Supp. 82a-1206; also repealing K.S.A. 82a-1218.
- Apr 10, 2026State BillAN ACT concerning public assistance; relating to the secretary for children and families; eliminating certain restrictions for eligibility for public assistance; removing the requirement to cooperate with child support services for eligibility; extending the lifetime limitation of temporary assistance for needy families to 60 months; providing for hardship extensions to be granted by the secretary for children and families; exempting parents providing care for a child less than one year of age from work participation activities; eliminating restrictions on persons convicted of drug felonies from receiving food assistance; permitting the secretary to grant categorical eligibility standards; eliminating photograph requirements on benefits cards; eliminating requirements for employment and training programs for certain individuals to be eligible for food assistance; eliminating legislative action to be required for expansion of the medical assistance program; amending K.S.A. 39-702 and K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 39-709 and repealing the existing sections.
- Apr 10, 2026State BillAN ACT concerning public assistance; relating to the secretary for children and families and the secretary of health and environment; directing the secretaries to enter into agreements with commercial entities and state agencies for the continuous review and comparison of data for public assistance eligibility; requiring the secretary for children and families to review federal sources to verify such eligibility.
- Apr 10, 2026State BillAN ACT concerning abortion; relating to health professions and practices; requiring that certain abortion complications be reported to the Kansas department of health and environment.
- Apr 10, 2026State BillAN ACT concerning agriculture; relating to the application of swine waste; prohibiting certain applications except with low-pressure drop nozzles within an average height of three feet and using secretary-approved methods; requiring contour buffer strips for application on land with slopes of 3% or greater; establishing setback rules for property lines, road rights-of-way, habitable structures, refuges and parks; requiring applicators to prevent nuisance conditions; amending K.S.A. 65-1,182 and repealing the existing section.
- Apr 10, 2026State BillAN ACT concerning adult care homes; relating to enhancing adult care home services; providing for adult care home workforce development through scholarships for part-time nursing students; setting minimum education levels for instructors at nursing schools; establishing the intergenerational child care program to enhance the adult care home environment by supporting adult care homes offering child care services through the awarding of grants by the secretary of health and environment; creating the intergenerational child care fund; authorizing the secretary to administer the fund; amending K.S.A. 65-1119 and K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 74-3293 and repealing the existing sections.
- Apr 10, 2026State BillAN ACT concerning data centers; relating to the siting and development of large load data centers; prohibiting the installation, placement, construction or operation of any new large load data center in any county that has had a drought emergency declared for such county pursuant to the Kansas emergency management act within the preceding three years; amending K.S.A. 2025 Supp. 19-101a and repealing the existing section.
- Apr 10, 2026State BillAN ACT concerning health and healthcare; relating to health insurance coverage; expanding medical assistance eligibility; enacting the healthcare access for working Kansans (HAWK) act; directing the department of health and environment to study certain medicaid expansion topics; adding meeting days to the Robert G. (Bob) Bethell joint committee on home and community based services and KanCare oversight to monitor implementation of expanded medical assistance eligibility; amending K.S.A. 39-7,160 and 40-3213 and repealing the existing sections.
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