Kansas 2025-2026 Regular Session

Kansas Senate Bill SB67

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Report Pass
2/17/25  
Engrossed
2/25/25  
Refer
2/25/25  
Report Pass
3/12/25  
Enrolled
3/25/25  

Caption

Substitute for SB 67 by Committee on Public Health and Welfare - Authorizing registered nurse anesthetists to prescribe, procure and administer drugs consistent with the registered nurse anesthetist's education and qualifications.

Summary

SB 67 expands the authority of registered nurse anesthetists in Kansas. The bill allows them, when working under the order of a physician or dentist requesting anesthesia or analgesia care, to perform a range of anesthesia-related duties including assessments, planning, medication selection and administration, ordering tests and medications, inducing and maintaining anesthesia, supporting life functions, and managing patient emergence. It also authorizes registered nurse anesthetists to prescribe durable medical equipment and to prescribe, procure, and administer drugs consistent with their education and qualifications, while preserving existing limits on anesthetic agents except as otherwise allowed in the anesthesia-care context. The bill also sets conditions for controlled substances, requiring registration with the federal Drug Enforcement Administration and compliance with DEA rules. It expressly prohibits registered nurse anesthetists from performing or inducing abortions or prescribing, procuring, or administering drugs for abortions. Prescription orders must identify the nurse anesthetist by name, address, and telephone number, and the bill clarifies that they may request, receive, sign for, and distribute professional samples but may not dispense drugs. The measure updates K.S.A. 65-1158 and repeals the existing version of that statute.

Impact

SB 67 amends Kansas law governing nursing practice by expanding and clarifying the scope of practice for registered nurse anesthetists under K.S.A. 65-1158. It affects anesthesia care delivery, prescribing authority, controlled substance handling, and documentation requirements, and it reinforces that nurse anesthetists function as part of a physician- or dentist-directed healthcare team. The bill primarily impacts registered nurse anesthetists, physicians, dentists, patients receiving anesthesia or analgesia, and regulatory oversight of prescriptions and controlled substances.

Sentiment

The bill appears to have broad legislative support overall, passing the Senate 36-4 and the House 118-5, which suggests strong bipartisan approval of expanding nurse anesthetist practice authority. However, the rejected Senate amendment vote indicates there was some disagreement over details, even though the final version advanced comfortably. The limited available discussion does not show organized opposition, but the recorded votes suggest a small minority remained concerned about the scope of authority being granted.

Contention

The main points of contention likely centered on how far to extend prescribing and drug-administration authority to registered nurse anesthetists, especially regarding controlled substances and the limits on anesthetic agents. Another sensitive issue is the explicit abortion-related prohibition, which may have been included to address concerns about the use of drugs in that context. The failed Senate amendment vote suggests at least one attempt to modify the bill’s terms, but the available record does not identify the specific objection or sponsor beyond Senator Schmidt.

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 HB2004

Authorizing counties to propose an earnings tax for ballot question.

KS SB5

Authorizing counties to impose an earnings 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 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 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.

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