Transferring officers, employees, powers, duties and functions relating to the state health care benefits program from the division of the state employee health benefits plan of the department of administration to the insurance department, establishing the commissioner of insurance as the chairperson of the Kansas state employees health care commission, providing that all management functions of such commission be administered by the commissioner of insurance and eliminating a pilot program regarding employer contributions for certain children.
Eliminating the requirement that the state employees health care commission offer long-term care insurance and indemnity insurance.
Transferring registration requirements and related compliance oversight and enforcement authority for professional employer organizations from the commissioner of insurance to the secretary of state effective January 1, 2025, granting the secretary responsibility over the professional employer organization fee fund and ensuring that welfare benefit plans offered by professional employer organizations to employees and covered employees are treated as a single employer welfare benefit plan for purposes of state law.
Mandating insurance coverage for certain allergen introduction dietary supplements for infants under the state health care benefits program and requiring the Kansas state employees health care commission to submit an impact report on such coverage to the legislature.
Authorizing the commissioner of insurance to set the amount of certain fees and requiring the publication of such fees in the Kansas register.
Authorizing the commissioner of insurance to set the amount of certain fees and requiring the publication of such fees in the Kansas register.
Establishing the office of the child advocate as an independent state agency and prescribing certain powers, duties and functions thereof.
Reducing the number of appointed board members on certain insurance-related governing boards and the frequency of meetings of the the committee on surety bonds and insurance.
Providing membership in the Kansas police and firemen's retirement system for certain security officers of the department of corrections and for certain law enforcement officers and employees of the Kansas department of wildlife and parks.
Providing for the statewide election of commissioners of the state corporation commission, establishing the utilities regulation division in the office of the attorney general, requiring such division to represent and protect the collective interests of utility customers in utility rate-related proceedings and exempting the state corporation commission from the open meetings act.