The Moser Minute

Here’s the latest list of bills signed by Governor Kelly since my last Moser Minute.

HB 2781: increasing compensation, services and support for victims of crimes. HB 2628: Requires the Department for Children and Families secretary to release information related to a child fatality when criminal charges are filed related to such fatality and that child was involved in the child welfare system. HB 2703: Increases foster youth access to at-risk programs and services by including placement in foster care as a criterion for eligibility for such services. HB 2353: Increases the availability of community mental health services through Assisted Outpatient Treatment programs. HB 2358: Expands the types of practitioners that can medically certify cause of death on a death certificate, expediting the timely filing of death certificates across the state. HB 2453: Enacts Kansas’ participation in the dentist and dental hygienist compact, creating additional workforce opportunities for the Kansas dental industry. HB 2477: Increases the maximum reimbursement available to eligible persons through the Remediation Reimbursement Program for soil and ground water remediation projects. HB 2483: Eliminates the requirement for Legislative Post Audit to conduct certain recurring audits. HB 2484: Enacts Kansas’ participation in the social work licensure interstate compact. Participation will increase Kansans’ access to mental health care, ensure continuity of care, and simplify licensure processes for social workers. HB 2491: Transitions funding for the Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center to the state general fund. HB 2754: Authorizes counties to use home rule powers to exempt their county health departments from conducting school sanitary inspections that are already being conducted. SB 345: Enacts the Commercial Financing Disclosure Act, requiring certain commercial financing entities to transparently provide Kansas businesses with information on the best commercial financing options available to them. The bill also puts in place basic guardrails on commercial financing brokers. SB 379: Clarifies certain procedures and publication notice deadlines for administration or probate of a will. SB 405: Extends liability under the Kansas Uniform Securities Act to ensure controlling or supervisory investment advisors and brokers are held responsible if their subordinates violate the act. SB 430: Provides a comprehensive update of the Kansas’ workers compensation system. SB 462: Authorizing the director of vehicles to adopt rules and regulation for participation in the federal motor carrier safety administration’s drug and alcohol clearinghouse program and authorizing the director of vehicles to waive the commercial driver’s license knowledge and skills test for an applicant that provides evidence that such applicant qualifies for the military even exchange program.

SB 394 became law without the Governor’s signature. It requires the use of age-verification technology to permit access to internet websites containing material that is harmful to minors.

Bills vetoed by the Governor-Sub Bill for HB 2436: Creating the crime of coercion to obtain an abortion and providing enhanced criminal penalties for offenses committed with the intent to coerce a woman to obtain an abortion. HB 2446: Prohibiting cities and counties from regulating plastic and other containers designed for the consumption, transportation or protection of merchandise, food or beverages. HB 2648: Requiring the director of the budget to independently determine costs of compliance and implementation for all proposed rules and regulations and authorizing the director of the budget to disapprove proposed rules and regulations. HB 2749: Requiring medical care facilities and providers to report the reasons for each abortion performed at such facility or by such provider to the secretary of health and environment. SB 233: Enacting the Forbidding Abuse Child Transitions Act, (children under the age of 18); restricting use of state funds to promote gender transitioning, prohibiting healthcare providers from treating children whose gender identity is inconsistent with the child’s sex, authorizing a civil cause of action against healthcare providers for providing such treatments, requiring professional discipline against a healthcare provider who performs such treatment, prohibiting professional liability insurance from covering damages for healthcare providers that provide gender transition treatment to children and adding violation of the act to the definition of unprofessional conduct for physicians and nurses. SB 434: Exempting the practice of hair removal by sugaring from the definition of cosmetology.

Congratulations to the following communities in District 106 that received grants for Water Infrastructure: Technical Assistance Grant Recipients: Mankato: $461,548, Republic: $202,400. Water Project Grant Recipient: Burr Oak: $1,028,749.

Please contact me about issues that concern you. My email: [email protected] The Capitol office number: 785.296.7637. My cell: 785.456.3876.