Kansas 2025-2026 Regular Session

Kansas Senate Bill SB250

Introduced
2/7/25  
Refer
2/10/25  
Report Pass
2/17/25  
Engrossed
2/20/25  
Refer
2/20/25  
Report Pass
3/12/25  
Enrolled
4/10/25  

Caption

Enacting the right to try for individualized treatments act to permit a manufacturer to make an individualized investigative treatment available to a requesting patient.

Impact

The enactment of SB250 introduces significant changes to the state laws regarding healthcare access and patient rights. It allows healthcare providers to recommend investigational treatments without fear of facing disciplinary actions that could jeopardize their licenses. Moreover, a noteworthy provision is that patients or their estates will not be liable for any treatment-related debts if a patient dies while undergoing an individualized investigational treatment. This alleviates some financial burden on patients and their families during critical times.

Summary

Senate Bill No. 250, known as the Right to Try for Individualized Treatments Act, aims to provide patients with life-threatening or severely debilitating conditions access to individualized investigational treatments. Under this act, eligible patients can request unique drugs, biological products, or devices made specifically for their needs, based on their genetic profiles. The bill emphasizes the role of healthcare providers in recommending these treatments and outlines the requirements for informed consent from patients.

Sentiment

The sentiment surrounding SB250 appears to be generally supportive among stakeholders advocating for patient rights and innovative treatment options. Proponents argue that this bill enhances patient autonomy and provides hope for individuals with limited options due to the severity of their condition. However, there are concerns about possible overreach, such as the ethical implications of using investigational treatments that have not undergone full FDA approval, raising caution among certain medical professionals and advocacy groups who fear potential exploitation of vulnerable patients.

Contention

Some key points of contention have emerged around the implications of allowing broad access to investigational treatments. Critics express apprehension regarding the safety and efficacy of such treatments, given that they may bypass traditional regulatory pathways. Additionally, the potential for unequal access based on resource availability and financial implications raises ethical concerns about equity in healthcare, possibly leading to disparities in treatment outcomes. The debate highlights a critical balance between patient rights to explore treatment options and ensuring patient safety within a regulated framework.

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 SB8

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

KS SB6

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

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 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 HB2004

Authorizing counties to propose an earnings tax for ballot question.

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 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 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 SB5

Authorizing counties to impose an earnings tax.

Similar Bills

TX SB984

Relating to access to individualized investigational treatments for patients with life-threatening or severely debilitating illnesses.

TX HB975

Relating to the right to try cutting-edge treatments for patients with life-threatening or severely debilitating illnesses.

TX HB3318

Relating to access to individualized investigational treatments for patients with life-threatening or severely debilitating illnesses.

NM SB33

RIGHT TO TRY INDIVIDUALIZED TREATMENTS ACT

TN SB0282

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 53 and Title 63, relative to medical treatment.

TN HB0192

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 53 and Title 63, relative to medical treatment.

SD HB1139

Allow individualized investigative treatments for patients with life-threatening or debilitating diseases or conditions.

MI HB4789

Health: other; individualized investigational treatment for certain patients suffering from a life-threatening or severely debilitating illness; provide for. Amends title & secs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7 of 2014 PA 345 (MCL 333.26451 et seq.) & adds sec. 2a.