Kansas legislation · 2025-2026 Regular Session
Kansas HB2463: Creating the rural health transformation fund, prescribing powers and duties of the state finance council concerning such fund and the rural health transformation program, crediting all federal moneys for the rural health transformation program to such fund and making and concerning appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 2026, and June 30, 2027, for the state finance council and other state agencies
Status: In committee, April 10, 2026
What the bill says
An act concerning rural health; creating the rural health transformation fund; prescribing powers and duties of the state finance council concerning such fund and the rural health transformation program; crediting all federal moneys for the rural health transformation program to such fund; making and concerning appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 2026, and June 30, 2027, for the state finance council and other state agencies…
From the introduced text, January 15, 2026:
AN ACT concerning rural health; creating the rural health transformation fund; prescribing powers and duties of the state finance council concerning such fund and the rural health transformation program; crediting all federal moneys for the rural health transformation program to such fund; making and concerning appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 2026, and June 30, 2027, for the state finance council and other state agencies; authorizing certain transfers, imposing certain restrictions and limitations and directing or authorizing certain receipts, disbursements, procedures and acts incidental to the foregoing. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas: Section 1. (a) Consistent with section 24 of article 2 of the constitution of the state of Kansas and notwithstanding any other law, all federal funds received by the state of Kansas from the centers for medicare and medicaid services pursuant to section 71401 of public law 119-21 and any other federal law that appropriates moneys to the state for the rural health transformation program shall be available for expenditure only upon an act of appropriation by the legislature. (b) There is hereby established in the state treasury the rural health transformation fund, which shall be administered by the state finance council. All expenditures from the rural health transformation fund shall be for the purposes of funding the rural health …