Kansas legislation · 2025-2026 Regular Session
Kansas SB327: Changing the requirement that the Robert G. (Bob) Bethell joint committee on home and community based services and KanCare oversight meet in January and April to meeting at least once each quarter
Status: Failed, March 20, 2026
What the bill says
An act concerning legislative oversight; relating to the Robert G. (Bob) Bethell joint committee on home and community based services and KanCare oversight; eliminating the requirement that the committee's January and April meetings be held during the regular legislative session; amending K.S.A. 39-7,160 and repealing the existing section.
From the introduced text, January 14, 2026:
AN ACT concerning legislative oversight; relating to the Robert G. (Bob) Bethell joint committee on home and community based services and KanCare oversight; eliminating the requirement that the committee's January and April meetings be held during the regular legislative session; amending K.S.A. 39-7,160 and repealing the existing section. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas: Section 1. K.S.A. 39-7,160 is hereby amended to read as follows: 397,160. (a) There is hereby established the Robert G. (Bob) Bethell joint committee on home and community based services and KanCare oversight. The joint committee shall review the number of individuals who are transferred from state or private institutions and long-term care facilities to the home and community based services and the associated cost savings and other outcomes of the money-follows-the-person program. The joint committee shall review the funding targets recommended by the interim report submitted for the 2007 legislature by the joint committee on legislative budget and use them such funding targets as guidelines for future funding planning and policy making. The joint committee shall have oversight of savings resulting from the transfer of individuals from state or private institutions to home and community based services. As used in K.S.A. 39-7,159 through 39-7,162, and amendments thereto, "savings" means the difference between the average cost of providing services for individuals …
Sponsors
- Angela Stiens (R) · primary sponsor
Latest actions
- : Stricken from Calendar by Rule 1507
- : Committee of the Whole - Passed over and retain a place on the calendar
- : Committee of the Whole - Passed over and retain a place on the calendar
- : Committee Report recommending bill be passed by House Committee on Health and Human Services
- : Referred to House Committee on Health and Human Services
- : Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services
- : Received and Introduced
- : Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea 38, Nay 0, Absent 2
- : Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea: 38 Nay: 0
- : Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended
Votes
- Final Action Amended (February 5, 2026): 38 yea, 0 nay, passed
Subjects: Legislature
Common questions
- What is SB327?
- SB327 is a bill in the Kansas Legislature (2025-2026 Regular Session): Changing the requirement that the Robert G. (Bob) Bethell joint committee on home and community based services and KanCare oversight meet in January and April to meeting at least once each quarter.
- What does SB327 do?
- In its own words: An act concerning legislative oversight; relating to the Robert G. (Bob) Bethell joint committee on home and community based services and KanCare oversight; eliminating the requirement that the committee's January and April meetings be held during the regular legislative session; amending K.S.A. 39-7,160 and repealing the existing section.
- What is the status of SB327?
- Failed as of March 20, 2026. Latest action: Stricken from Calendar by Rule 1507 (March 20, 2026).
- Who sponsored SB327?
- Angela Stiens (R).
- Where is the official record for SB327?
- On the Kansas Legislature website: https://kslegislature.gov/li/b2025_26/measures/sb327/
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