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IntroducedFeb 04, 2026
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Passed HouseFeb 19, 2026
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Passed SenateMar 18, 2026
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Became Law
Kansas House Bill
Providing that applicants for a physician assistant license submit to a criminal record check, providing for the collaboration between physicians and physician assistants and requiring the revocation of a physician assistant license under certain circumstances.
Last Action See all actions
Senate • Mar 18, 2026: Final Action - Passed; Yea: 40 Nay: 0
Latest Bill Text See all bill texts
Summary
Comments on HB 2702
Tweets
Whip Lists
Sponsors
- Committee on Health and Human Servicessponsor
- Doug Smith on behalf of the Kansas Academy of Physician AssociatesRequester
Votes
YES: 120
- Alcala
- Amyx
- Anderson
- Ballard
- Barrett
- Bergkamp
- Bergquist
- Blex
- Bloom
- Boatman
- Bohi
- Borjon
- Brantley
- Wanda Brownlee Paige
- Brunk
- Bryce
- Buehler
- Butler
- Caiharr
- Carlin
- Carmichael
- B. Carpenter
- W. Carpenter
- Carr
- Chauncey
- Collins
- Corbet
- Croft
- Curtis
- Droge
- Ellis
- Esau
- Essex
- Estes
- Featherston
- Francis
- Gardner
- Goddard
- Goetz
- Haskins
- Hawkins
- Helgerson
- Helwig
- Hoffman
- Hoheisel
- Howe
- Howell
- Howerton
- Hoye
- Huebert
- Humphries
- James
- Johnson
- Kessler
- King
- Lewis
- Long
- Martinez
- McDonald
- McNorton
- Melton
- Meyer
- Minnix
- Moser
- Mosley
- Neelly
- Neighbor
- Ohaebosim
- Oropeza
- Osman
- Ousley
- Pickert
- Pishny
- Poskin
- Proctor
- Rahjes
- Reavis
- Resman
- Rhiley
- Roeser
- Roth
- L. Ruiz
- S. Ruiz
- Sanders
- Sappington
- Sawyer
- Stephanie Sawyer Clayton
- Schlingensiepen
- Schmoe
- Schreiber
- Schwertfeger
- Seiwert
- Simmons
- A. Smith
- C. Smith
- Steele
- Stiens
- Stogsdill
- Sutton
- Sweely
- Tarwater
- Turk
- Turner
- VanHouden
- Vaughn
- Waggoner
- Ward
- Wasinger
- Waymaster
- Weigel
- White
- Wikle
- Wilborn
- Willcott
- K. Williams
- L. Williams
- Wilson
- Wolf
- Woodard
- Xu
ABSENT: 3
Actions
- Mar 18, 2026 | Senate
- Final Action - Passed; Yea: 40 Nay: 0
- Mar 17, 2026 | Senate
- Committee of the Whole - Be passed
- Mar 11, 2026 | Senate
- Committee Report recommending bill be passed by Committee on Public Health and Welfare
- Mar 10, 2026 | Senate
- Hearing: Tuesday, March 10, 2026, 8:30 AM Room 142-S
- Feb 26, 2026 | Senate
- Referred to Committee on Public Health and Welfare
- Feb 25, 2026 | Senate
- Received and Introduced
- Feb 19, 2026 | House
- Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea: 120 Nay: 2
- Feb 18, 2026 | House
- Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
- Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended
- Feb 17, 2026 | House
- Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Health and Human Services
- Feb 10, 2026 | House
- Hearing: Tuesday, February 10, 2026, 1:30 PM Room 112-N
- Feb 04, 2026 | House
- Introduced
- Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services
Documents
- As introduced - Fiscal Note
- As Amended by House Committee - Supplementary Note
- Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare, Tue, Mar 10, 2026: Minutes
- Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare, Tue, Mar 10, 2026: Testimony by Rachelle Colombo, Executive Director, Kansas Medical Society (Oral Proponent)
- Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare, Tue, Mar 10, 2026: Testimony by Kerstin Stephens, Kansas Academy of Physician Associates (Oral Proponent)
- Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare, Tue, Mar 10, 2026: Testimony by Kansas Academy of Family Physicians, KAFP (Written Proponent)
- Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare, Tue, Mar 10, 2026: Testimony by Hillary Lewia, Trauma Physician Assistant, Private Citizen (Written Proponent)
- Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare, Tue, Mar 10, 2026: Testimony by Stephen Lewia, Jr., Pysician Assistant, Private Citizen (Written Proponent)
- Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare, Tue, Mar 10, 2026: Testimony by Dr. Alicia Plemmons, Coordinator & Research Fellow, Knee Regulatory Research Center (Written Proponent)
- Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare, Tue, Mar 10, 2026: Testimony by Jenna Moyer, Assistant Revisor, Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes (Bill Brief)
- Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare, Mon, Feb 16, 2026: Minutes
- Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare, Mon, Feb 16, 2026: Testimony by Rep. Carpenter, House of Representatives (HB2702 amendment)
- Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare, Tue, Feb 10, 2026: Minutes
- Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare, Tue, Feb 10, 2026: Testimony by Kerstin Stephens, Kansas Academy of Physician Associates (C01 HB2702 Pro)
- Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare, Tue, Feb 10, 2026: Testimony by Rachelle Colombo, Kansas Medical Society (C01 HB2702 Pro)
- Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare, Tue, Feb 10, 2026: Testimony by Hillary Lewia, Kansas Academy of Physician Associates (C01 HB2702 Pro WO)
- Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare, Tue, Feb 10, 2026: Testimony by Steven Lewia, Private Citizen (C01 HB2702 Pro WO)
- Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare, Tue, Feb 10, 2026: Testimony by Kansas Academy of Physician Associates, Kansas Academy of Physician Associates (C01 HB2702 Pro WO)
- Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare, Tue, Feb 10, 2026: Testimony by Susan Gile, Kansas State Board of Healing Arts (C01 HB2702 Neu)
- Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare, Tue, Feb 10, 2026: Testimony by Carly Choi, Revisor of Statutes (HB2702 bill brief)
- Committee Report recommending bill be passed by Committee on Public Health and Welfare
- Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Health and Human Services
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