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HB 2365

Relating to rural medical provider tax credits; prescribing an effective date.

2025 Regular Session Introduced by Court Boice and 12 co-sponsors

Creates the South Central Regional Mental Health Hospital in Wichita to expand inpatient mental health capacity for south-central Kansas.

In committee upon adjournment.
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Bill Summary · HB 2365

Summary — HB 2365 (2025) — Establishing the South Central Regional Mental Health Hospital (Kansas)

Purpose

HB 2365 creates a new regional state psychiatric hospital — the South Central Regional Mental Health Hospital (South Central) — in Wichita (Sedgwick County) to expand inpatient mental health capacity for south-central Kansas. The bill also updates statutory references and hospital catchment areas, establishes a fee fund to support operations, and authorizes an on-site extension of the State Security Hospital for forensic and criminally-committed patients.

Key provisions

  • Establishes South Central as a Kansas state hospital subject to the same rules and regulations that govern existing state hospitals.
  • Creates the South Central Regional Mental Health Hospital Fee Fund in the state treasury, administered by the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services (KDADS). Revenues collected by the hospital are to be remitted to the state treasurer and expended pursuant to appropriation acts on warrants issued after voucher approval by the hospital superintendent or designee.
  • Authorizes KDADS Secretary to establish, equip, and operate an extension of the State Security Hospital at South Central to hold, examine, treat, and care for:
    • Persons committed/ordered to the State Security Hospital by criminal courts;
    • Inmates transferred from correctional institutions for care/treatment; and
    • Adult patients transferred from other state hospitals.
      The Superintendent of Larned State Hospital is designated as superintendent of this South Central extension.
  • Renames “Parsons State Hospital and Training Center” to “Parsons State Hospital” to reflect current operations.
  • Revises catchment areas:
    • South Central catchment: Sedgwick, Butler, Cowley, Harvey, and Sumner counties.
    • Osawatomie State Hospital (OSH): removes Butler, Cowley, Sedgwick; adds Cloud County.
    • Larned State Hospital (LSH): removes Harvey and Sumner; adds Ottawa County.
    • Clarifies county catchment designations do not prevent out-of-catchment admissions when local capacity/resources are insufficient.
  • Makes multiple technical and conforming statutory amendments across state hospital and criminal commitment provisions.

Who is affected

  • KDADS (administration and oversight); state hospitals (South Central, Larned, Osawatomie, Parsons); county mental health referral patterns.
  • Patients committed by civil or criminal courts, inmates transferred for treatment, and regional providers/communities in south-central Kansas.
  • Office of Judicial Administration and local courts to the extent admissions and transfers are affected.

Fiscal impact

  • The Division of the Budget fiscal note (Feb 13, 2025) states KDADS and the Office of Judicial Administration indicate enactment would have no fiscal effect on those agencies. The bill establishes the fee fund but does not appropriate new state operating dollars within the bill text.

Background, hearings, and status

  • Introduced Feb 3, 2025 by the House Committee on Health and Human Services at the request of Rep. W. Carpenter on behalf of KDADS.
  • Supportive testimony from KDADS and Kansas Mental Health Coalition; written support from law enforcement associations.
  • Passed the House (final action Feb 20, 2025 — Yea: 121, Nay: 2). Amended in committee and by the Senate Committee on Public Health & Welfare.
  • Senate actions include committee report (Mar 17), Committee of the Whole actions (Mar 19), and emergency final action (Mar 19 — Yea: 40, Nay: 0). On Mar 20, a motion to accede was adopted and Senators Gossage, Clifford, and Holscher were appointed as conferees (conference requested after nonconcurrence with amendments).
  • Current status: conference/conciliation process following differences between House and Senate amendments.

Notes: Source materials included committee supplemental notes and the Division of the Budget fiscal note. Some extraneous text in the provided materials referenced unrelated bills from other states; this summary addresses the Kansas HB 2365 content.

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

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