republic-os/legislation/us/states/ks/2021-2022/hb-2279.md

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Bill	Senate substitute for HB 2279 by committee on public health and welfare - Amending the advanced practice registered nurse authorized scope of practice to permit the prescribing of drugs without a supervising physician.	Senate substitute for HB 2279 by committee on public health and welfare - Amending the advanced practice registered nurse authorized scope of practice to permit the prescribing of drugs without a supervising physician.	us/states/ks	Kansas Legislature	2021-2022	HB 2279	Kansas HB 2279 (2021-2022)	bill		enacted		5	29	4	2021-02-09	2022-04-25	openstates	ocd-bill/6ef2555f-f154-4d18-88fe-0d96eccc3365	http://www.kslegislature.org/li/api/v11/rev-1/bill_status/hb2279	2d5eb47e9ed19c5cbe03804d35280130c9afc95dd68b37794d562f1fc3712116	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ks

Kansas HB 2279 (2021-2022) — Senate substitute for HB 2279 by committee on public health and welfare - Amending the advanced practice registered nurse authorized scope of practice to permit the prescribing of drugs without a supervising physician.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. As introduced (filed) — source
2. As Amended by House Committee (committee substitute) — source
3. As Amended by Senate Committee (committee substitute) — source
4. S Sub for (committee substitute) — source
5. {As Amended by House Committee of the Whole} (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Committee of the Whole - Motion to rerefer to committee failed — 14–22 (fail) · upper
• Final Action - Passed; — 30–7 (pass) · upper
• Final Action - Passed as amended; — 122–2 (pass) · lower
• Concurred with amendments in conference; — 80–34 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Committee on Health and Human Services — primary (organization)
• Committee on Public Health and Welfare — cosponsor (organization)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2021-02-09 Introduced introduction
• 2021-02-10 Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services referral-committee
• 2021-02-17 Hearing: Tuesday, February 23, 2021, 1:30 PM Room 112-N
• 2021-02-24 Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Health and Human Services committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-02 Committee of the Whole - Now working on
• 2021-03-02 Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
• 2021-03-02 Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Representative Bergquist amendment-introduction
• 2021-03-02 Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Representative Bergquist was adopted amendment-passage
• 2021-03-02 Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended passage
• 2021-03-03 Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea: 122 Nay: 2 passage
• 2021-03-04 Engrossed on Thursday, March 4, 2021
• 2021-03-05 Received and Introduced introduction
• 2021-03-10 Referred to Committee on Public Health and Welfare referral-committee
• 2021-03-17 Hearing: Wednesday, March 24, 2021, 8:30 AM Room 142-S
• 2021-03-25 Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Public Health and Welfare committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-01-13 Withdrawn from Calendar, Rereferred to Committee on Public Health and Welfare referral-committee, withdrawal
• 2022-02-22 Committee Report recommending substitute bill be passed by Committee on Public Health and Welfare committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-03-08 Committee of the Whole - Now working on
• 2022-03-08 Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted recommending substitute bill be passed passage, substitution
• 2022-03-08 Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Senator Wilborn amendment-introduction
• 2022-03-08 Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Senator Wilborn was rejected amendment-failure
• 2022-03-08 Committee of the Whole - Motion to rerefer to committee failed Yea: 14 Nay: 22
• 2022-03-08 Committee of the Whole - Substitute bill be passed passage, substitution
• 2022-03-09 Final Action - Passed; Yea: 30 Nay: 7 passage
• 2022-03-15 Nonconcurred with amendments; Conference Committee requested; appointed
• 2022-03-15 Motion to accede adopted; Senator Hilderbrand, Senator Gossage and Senator Pettey appointed as conferees
• 2022-04-01 Concurred with amendments in conference; Yea: 80 Nay: 34
• 2022-04-25 Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, April 8, 2022 executive-receipt
• 2022-04-25 Approved by Governor on Friday, April 15, 2022 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6ef2555f-f154-4d18-88fe-0d96eccc3365. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kansas legislature records).