Kansas 2025-2026 Regular Session

Kansas House Bill HB2367

Introduced
2/7/25  

Caption

Providing naturopathic doctors a certificate of authorization for a business entity to practice medicine.

Summary

HB 2367 would expand Kansas law governing “certificates of authorization” for business entities that employ licensed healing arts professionals. The bill amends the professional corporation statute and the Kansas healing arts act so that business entities authorized by the State Board of Healing Arts could employ or contract with naturopathic doctors, in addition to physicians and chiropractors, to provide professional services. It also updates the definition of a qualifying business entity to expressly include entities that employ naturopathic doctors in certain worksite clinic, insurer-affiliated, or health-technology settings. The bill sets out the application, renewal, fee, and compliance requirements for these business entities, including disclosure of owners, officers, licensed professionals, and proof of licensure and local business authorization. It also preserves the board’s authority to issue, renew, suspend, limit, revoke, or deny certificates and lists grounds for discipline such as fraud, rule violations, deceptive conduct, patient harm, and felony or misdemeanor convictions related to the healing arts. The bill further emphasizes that business entities may not interfere with the independent professional judgment of licensees or restrict patient communications about treatment options and alternatives.

Impact

HB 2367 would amend K.S.A. 17-2710 and K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 65-28,134 to expressly authorize business entities with a certificate of authorization to employ naturopathic doctors, alongside physicians and chiropractors, for covered professional services. This would broaden the types of healthcare-related business structures that can lawfully provide naturopathic services in Kansas, while keeping those entities under the oversight of the State Board of Healing Arts and subject to existing disciplinary and patient-protection provisions. The bill would also repeal the current versions of the amended statutes and replace them with the new language.

Sentiment

Based on the bill text and the absence of recorded committee testimony or votes in the provided materials, the overall sentiment appears procedural and supportive of expanding professional practice options for naturopathic doctors. The bill was requested on behalf of the Kansas Naturopathic Doctors Association and introduced by the House Committee on Health and Human Services, which suggests sponsorship interest from the profession and a policy focus on access to naturopathic care through authorized business entities. No contrary vote history or recorded opposition is provided in the materials.

Contention

The main policy issue is the expansion of corporate or entity-based practice authority to include naturopathic doctors, which may raise concerns about corporate influence over clinical decision-making, scope-of-practice boundaries, and how naturopathic services fit within the existing healing arts regulatory framework. The bill tries to address those concerns by prohibiting business entities from interfering with independent professional judgment and from restricting patient disclosures about treatment options, risks, and alternatives. Another possible point of contention is the breadth of the business-entity definition, which includes employer-based clinics, insurer-affiliated entities, and certain technology companies, potentially prompting debate over commercialization of healthcare and regulatory oversight.

Companion Bills

No companion bills found.

Previously Filed As

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 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 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 HB2004

Authorizing counties to propose an earnings tax for ballot question.

KS SB8

Exempting the sale of firearms, firearms accessories, ammunition, firearm safes and firearm safety devices from the retatilers' sales 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 HB2002

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

KS SB5

Authorizing counties to impose an earnings tax.

Similar Bills

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