Kansas 2025-2026 Regular Session

Kansas House Bill HB2317

Introduced
2/6/25  

Caption

Establishing the fetal alcohol spectrum disorders task force to study fetal alcohol spectrum disorders in the state.

Summary

HB 2317 directs the Kansas secretary of health and environment to create a fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) task force. The task force would study the effects and prevalence of FASD in Kansas and may recommend changes to state law and administrative rules. The bill is structured as a temporary study commission, with the task force expiring on December 31, 2026. The task force would have 12 members representing the Legislature, the Department of Health and Environment, the Department for Children and Families, the governor’s office, the education system, aging and disability services, healthcare professionals, behavioral health professionals, foster parents, special education, and family support organizations. Legislative and nonlegislative appointment terms, leadership roles, compensation, and staffing support are all specified in the bill. The measure is intended to gather information and develop policy recommendations rather than directly create treatment programs or mandates.

Impact

The bill would not immediately change substantive health law, but it would create a new temporary advisory body within the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. It authorizes the task force to study FASD statewide, use legislative and agency support staff, and receive compensation and expenses under existing state law. Any future legal or regulatory changes would depend on recommendations made by the task force before it expires.

Sentiment

Based on the bill’s sponsorship and the absence of recorded opposition, the overall sentiment appears supportive and collaborative. The measure was requested on behalf of FASD advocacy groups, suggesting it is driven by stakeholders seeking greater awareness, data collection, and policy attention for affected children and families. No committee transcript or vote record is available here to indicate formal debate or dissent.

Contention

The main potential point of contention is not the existence of the task force itself, but whether a study commission is the best use of state resources versus moving directly to services, diagnosis, or treatment supports. Because the bill includes legislative members, agency officials, educators, foster care representation, and advocacy voices, any disagreement would likely center on membership balance, the scope of the study, and whether the task force’s recommendations should lead to broader statutory or regulatory changes. No specific objections are documented in the provided materials.

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 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 SCR1603

Proposing to amend section 1 of article 11 of the constitution of the state of Kansas to limit property tax valuation increases for residential property.

KS SB8

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

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 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 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 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 SCR1601

Informing the Governor that the two houses of the Legislature are organized and ready to receive communications.

Similar Bills

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