Kansas 2025-2026 Regular Session

Kansas House Bill HB2368

Introduced
2/7/25  
Refer
2/7/25  
Refer
2/18/25  
Refer
2/25/25  

Caption

Providing for the licensure of anesthesiologist assistants.

Summary

HB 2368 creates the Kansas anesthesiologist assistant licensure act and places anesthesiologist assistants under the regulatory authority of the state board of healing arts. The bill defines the profession, establishes active and inactive licenses, temporary licenses, and licensure by endorsement for out-of-state practitioners, and sets application, renewal, reinstatement, and certification fees. It also requires board rules on continuing education, allows fingerprint-based criminal history checks, and creates an anesthesiologist assistant council to advise the board. The bill also specifies the scope of practice for anesthesiologist assistants, including assisting with anesthesia care plans, airway management, drug administration, regional anesthesia procedures, and related clinical, administrative, research, and teaching tasks, while prohibiting prescribing and unsupervised practice. It limits supervision to anesthesiologists who are physically present or immediately available and caps supervision at four anesthesiologist assistants per anesthesiologist at one time. The measure includes disciplinary grounds, unlawful practice provisions, injunction authority, and criminal penalties for unauthorized practice or misuse of the title.

Impact

HB 2368 would add a new licensing framework to Kansas law for anesthesiologist assistants and amend existing statutes governing anesthesia practice, healing arts supervision, and criminal history record checks. It repeals or revises portions of K.S.A. 65-1163, 65-28,127, and K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 22-4714 to integrate the new profession into the state’s regulatory and disciplinary system. The bill would affect the state board of healing arts, anesthesiologist assistants, supervising anesthesiologists, medical facilities, and applicants seeking licensure or endorsement in Kansas.

Sentiment

Based on the bill’s origin and structure, the measure appears generally supportive of expanding the anesthesia workforce and formalizing a pathway for practice in Kansas. It was requested on behalf of the Kansas Association of Anesthesiologist Assistants, suggesting backing from the profession and likely from stakeholders seeking clearer licensure standards. No committee transcript or vote record was provided, so there is no recorded public debate in the supplied materials to indicate broader support or opposition.

Contention

The main points of potential contention are the supervision model, the scope of practice, and the workforce limits. The bill requires anesthesiologist assistants to work under an anesthesiologist who is physically present or immediately available and limits each anesthesiologist to supervising no more than four assistants at a time, which may be viewed as either a safety safeguard or a staffing constraint. Other possible concerns include the use of criminal history checks, the disciplinary authority of the board, and whether the new profession could overlap with or affect existing anesthesia providers such as nurse anesthetists and physician assistants.

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 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 SB6

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

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 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 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 SB3

Clarifying the procedures and restrictions on accepting a nomination for an elected office.

KS HB2004

Authorizing counties to propose an earnings tax for ballot question.

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