Kansas 2025-2026 Regular Session

Kansas House Bill HB2163

Introduced
1/30/25  
Refer
1/30/25  

Caption

Providing for the preceptor income tax incentive act, establishing an income tax credit for nursing home administrators, registered nurses and registered dietitians that serve as a community-based faculty preceptor in adult care homes and medical care facilities by providing personalized instruction, training and supervision for students.

Impact

This tax credit initiative is designed to alleviate the financial burden associated with mentoring and training new professionals in the healthcare field. By providing a structured incentive, the bill aims to foster a culture of mentorship within the sector, which could improve the quality of care in nursing homes and other healthcare facilities. The tax credit allows preceptors to claim $250 for every 40 hours of qualified preceptorship, with the potential for substantial credits depending on the volume of training provided, thereby aligning financial interests with educational outcomes. This move could attract more experienced professionals to engage in teaching roles, mitigating staffing shortages in these critical positions.

Summary

House Bill 2163 introduces the Preceptor Income Tax Incentive Act, which establishes a tax credit aimed at encouraging nursing home administrators, registered nurses, and registered dietitians to serve as community-based faculty preceptors. These preceptors provide personalized instruction, training, and supervision for students at postsecondary institutions, particularly in adult care homes and medical care facilities. The bill acknowledges the ongoing challenges in overcoming barriers to professional mentorship necessary for careers in aging services and healthcare, thus promoting the development of the future workforce in these critical areas.

Contention

However, the proposal may face scrutiny regarding its implementation and the criteria for eligibility. Critics might raise questions about ensuring that the incentives effectively reach qualified preceptors without leading to abuses in the system, such as preceptors claiming credits for inadequate or unverified preceptorship hours. As the bill rolls out, meticulous oversight will be necessary to maintain integrity within the program. Additionally, there may be concerns regarding the availability and readiness of resources for educational institutions to manage and verify preceptorships and the associated claims effectively.

Companion Bills

No companion bills found.

Previously Filed As

KS SB2

Eliminating the income limit to qualify for the subtraction modification exempting social security benefits, increasing the income tax credit amount for household and dependent care expenses, establishing the veterans' valor property tax relief act providing for an income tax credit or refund for eligible individuals, citing the increased property tax homestead refund claim section as the homeowners' property tax freeze program, decreasing the normal privilege tax rate, increasing the extent of property tax exemption for residential property from the statewide school levy, decreasing the rate of ad valorem tax imposed by a school district; providing for certain transfers to the state school district finance fund, reducing the state rate of tax on sales of food and food ingredients and modifying the percent credited to the state highway fund from revenue collected.

KS HB2003

Establishing the veterans' valor property tax relief act providing for an income tax credit or refund for eligible individuals, modifying the definition of household income and increasing the appraised value threshold for eligibility of seniors and disabled veterans related to increased property tax claims and citing the section as the homeowners' property tax freeze program, providing property tax exemptions for certain personal property including watercraft, marine equipment, off-road vehicles, motorized bicycles and certain trailers, excluding internal revenue code section 1031 exchange transactions as indicators of fair market value, providing for certain exclusions from the prohibition of paying taxes under protest after a valuation notice appeal and providing four prior years' values on the annual valuation notice.

KS SB1

Modifying income tax rates for individuals, exempting all social security benefits from Kansas income tax, increasing the Kansas standard deduction and the Kansas personal exemption, increasing the income tax credit amount for household and dependent care expenses, decreasing the privilege tax normal tax, excluding internal revenue code section 1031 exchange transactions as indicators of fair market value for property tax valuation purposes, increasing the extent of property tax exemption for residential property from the statewide school levy, providing for certain transfers to the state school district finance fund and abolishing the local ad valorem tax reduction fund and the county and city revenue sharing fund.

KS SB6

Providing a sales tax exemption for sales of electricity to residential premises by municipally owned or operated utilities.

KS SCR1604

Proposing to amend section 1 of article 11 of the constitution of the state of Kansas to limit property tax valuation increases for real property and personal property mobile homes.

KS HB2002

Expanding medical assistance eligibility and enacting the cutting healthcare costs for all Kansans act.

KS SB8

Exempting the sale of firearms, firearms accessories, ammunition, firearm safes and firearm safety devices from the retatilers' sales tax.

KS HB2001

Authorizing the secretary of commerce to enter into agreements with major professional sports franchises to establish STAR bond projects for a major professional sports complex, providing for additional revenue sources, expanding the powers and discretion of the secretary and making other changes to the STAR bonds financing act to facilitate such projects, limiting the secretary’s authority to approve such projects to one year unless extended by the legislative coordinating council, authorizing the Kansas development finance authority to issue STAR bonds for such projects, transferring funds under certain circumstances from the state gaming revenues fund to the attracting professional sports to Kansas fund for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, and, if approved by the legislative coordinating council, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2026.

KS SB7

Authorizing federally licensed firearm dealers, in addition to county sheriffs, to receive applications for concealed carry licenses and forward such applications to the attorney general, prohibiting sheriffs from assessing any fee related to application services and allowing dealers to assess a fee related to application services not to exceed $20.

KS HR6002

Providing for assignment of seats in the House of Representatives for the 2024 special session of the Legislature.

Similar Bills

HI HB1591

Relating To Health Care.

HI SB1070

Relating To Healthcare Preceptors.

HI HB303

Relating To Healthcare Preceptors.

HI SB1070

Relating To Healthcare Preceptors.

HI HB303

Relating To Healthcare Preceptors.