Kansas 2025-2026 Regular Session

Kansas House Bill HB2307

Introduced
2/5/25  
Refer
2/5/25  
Report Pass
2/14/25  
Engrossed
2/20/25  
Refer
2/26/25  
Report Pass
3/11/25  
Enrolled
3/25/25  

Caption

Transferring the power to authorize and oversee certain activities regarding prenatal and postnatal diagnosed conditions awareness programs from the department of health and environment to the Kansas council on developmental disabilities.

Summary

HB2307 transfers responsibility for authorizing and overseeing Kansas’s prenatally and postnatally diagnosed conditions awareness programs from the Department of Health and Environment to the Kansas Council on Developmental Disabilities. The bill updates the governing statute so that the council, rather than the department, may award grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements to eligible entities that provide evidence-based information, support services, outreach, peer support, adoption-related resources, and education for health care providers concerning Down syndrome and other prenatally or postnatally diagnosed conditions. The bill also preserves existing rules and regulations by deeming them to continue in effect under the council until changed, and it directs that references in other documents to the department or secretary be read as references to the council for these programs. It requires culturally and linguistically appropriate information, emphasizes partnerships between health care professional groups and disability advocacy organizations, and keeps the program funded through a dedicated state treasury fund. The bill also sets a $25,000 transfer from the state general fund to that fund on July 1, 2025, and requires a report to the governor and legislature by January 12, 2027 on grants and program effectiveness.

Impact

HB2307 amends K.S.A. 65-1,259 and repeals the existing version of that statute, shifting administrative authority for prenatal and postnatal diagnosis awareness programs to the Kansas Council on Developmental Disabilities. This changes which state entity approves grantees, oversees program activities, and signs off on related rules, while leaving the program structure and funding mechanism intact. The bill affects the Department of Health and Environment, the council, grantees, health care providers, and families receiving prenatal or postnatal diagnoses, especially those involving Down syndrome or similar conditions.

Sentiment

The bill appears to have been broadly supported and noncontroversial in the Legislature. It passed the House 122-0 and the Senate 40-0, indicating unanimous approval in both chambers. The lack of recorded committee testimony in the provided materials also suggests limited visible opposition or debate in the available record.

Contention

No significant contention is reflected in the provided votes or transcripts. The main policy choice is administrative rather than substantive: whether oversight should remain with the Department of Health and Environment or move to the Kansas Council on Developmental Disabilities. Any potential concern would likely center on agency jurisdiction, program administration, and whether the transfer improves coordination with disability advocacy organizations and affected families, but no opposing arguments are documented in the materials provided.

Companion Bills

No companion bills found.

Previously Filed As

KS HB2002

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

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 SB5

Authorizing counties to impose an earnings tax.

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 HB2004

Authorizing counties to propose an earnings tax for ballot question.

KS SCR1602

Approving the creation of a port authority in Wyandotte County Kansas.

KS SB8

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

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 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 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.

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