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HB 2184

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2025-2026 Regular Session Introduced by Andrew Engell and 1 co-sponsor

Kansas HB 2184 creates KDADS oversight for supplemental nursing staffing agencies and healthcare worker platforms, with annual $2,035 registrations and a dedicated regulation fund.

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Bill Summary · HB 2184

Summary — HB 2184 (Kansas, 2025)

Providing for regulation of supplemental nursing services agencies and healthcare worker platforms; creating the Supplemental Nursing Services Agency and Healthcare Worker Platforms Regulation Fund

Overview / Purpose

HB 2184 would create a new regulatory regime under the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services (KDADS) for supplemental nursing services agencies (temporary/staffing agencies) and healthcare worker platforms (electronic platforms that list independent contractor healthcare personnel). The bill requires annual registration, sets oversight and complaint/investigation authority, and establishes a dedicated fee fund to support regulation.

Note: Documents provided include similarly numbered bills from other states (Arizona, Illinois). This summary focuses on the Kansas bill and its KDADS fiscal note.

Key definitions

  • Supplemental nursing services agency: business that provides or procures temporary employment of healthcare personnel in healthcare facilities (excludes individuals who only personally provide temporary services).
  • Healthcare worker platform: electronic platform listing independent contractor healthcare personnel available for temporary assignments.
  • Healthcare facility: includes medical care facilities and adult care homes as defined in Kansas law.
  • Secretary: Secretary for Aging and Disability Services.

Major provisions

  • KDADS must adopt rules and oversee agencies/platforms via unannounced surveys, complaint investigations and other compliance activities.
  • Annual registration required for every agency/platform and for each business location in Kansas.
  • Registration application must include ownership details, corporate documents (if applicable), policies ensuring records availability, proof of compliance with several operational requirements, and a $2,035 annual registration fee.
  • Registrations last one year and are voided upon sale/transfer; denials may be appealed under the Kansas Administrative Procedure Act with an administrative hearing staged within 60 days.
  • Agencies/platforms must:
    • Verify that temporary staff meet required licensing, training and continuing education for assigned positions.
    • Comply with legal qualification rules (including criminal history checks per K.S.A. 39-970).
    • Not restrict employment opportunities of staff.
    • Carry medical malpractice insurance (and other contract staff requirements such as documentation and funding obligations—text truncated in provided copy).

Regulatory tools and recordkeeping

  • KDADS to establish a complaint-reporting system available to the public.
  • Agencies/platforms must make records immediately available to KDADS on request.
  • KDADS empowered to investigate, survey, and take actions for noncompliance.

Fees and dedicated fund

  • Creates the Supplemental Nursing Services Agency and Healthcare Worker Platforms Regulation Fund.
  • Registration fees ($2,035 each) deposited to that fund.

Estimated fiscal impact (per KDADS fiscal note)

  • KDADS estimates initial State General Fund expenditures to implement the program of about $1.4 million (first year) to support a new regulatory program including 7.00 FTEs (licensure specialists, program manager, surveyor, complaint line support, legal assistant, attorney), contractual services (~$310,000), and a one-time $500,000 complaint/tracking platform startup. Ongoing maintenance estimated at ~$100,000 annually.
  • KDADS projects collecting approximately $246,235 annually in registration fees (based on 121 registrations at $2,035).
  • KDADS warns potential service gaps if some staffing agencies choose not to comply and cease operations or are barred from operating.

Who is affected

  • Supplemental nursing services agencies (and each Kansas location).
  • Healthcare worker platforms that list independent contractors.
  • Healthcare personnel placed via those agencies/platforms.
  • Hospitals, adult care homes and other healthcare facilities that rely on temporary staffing.
  • KDADS (increased regulatory responsibilities and staffing).

Procedural status (selected actions)

  • Filed: Jan 28, 2025.
  • Passed House: Feb 27, 2025; transmitted to Senate.
  • Senate readings and committee activity took place March–May 2025; several re-referrals and rule actions noted. A scheduled February 11 hearing was canceled. Last recorded procedural step: re-referred to Rules Committee (May 31, 2025).

Sponsor

  • Primary sponsor listed in materials: Representative Tony M. McCombie (documents also reference Representative King/LeadingAge Kansas in the bill request).

If you want, I can prepare a version that extracts precise statutory citations, summarizes likely regulatory rule topics KDADS will need to adopt, or produce a short one-page fact sheet for stakeholders (agencies, facilities, platforms).

Compiled from official sources — confirm details with the bill’s official record.

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