This bill establishes provisions for rural emergency hospitals in Kansas to transition a limited number of swing beds to skilled nursing facility beds. The Secretary for Aging and Disability Services is required to grant waivers to these hospitals, provided they meet specific criteria: they must be currently licensed as a rural emergency hospital, have been licensed as a hospital immediately prior to that, and must have provided skilled nursing facility services or critical access hospital swing bed services for at least one year without any findings of immediate jeopardy.

Additionally, the bill modifies the effective date of the act, changing it from publication in the statute book to publication in the Kansas register. This change aims to streamline the process and ensure that the new regulations are implemented promptly for the benefit of rural emergency hospitals and the communities they serve.