# Kansas HB 2736: Requiring hospitals to screen all patients for eligibility for such hospital's financial assistance program or charity care policy.

Kansas HB 2736, Requiring hospitals to screen all patients for eligibility for such hospital's financial assistance program or charity care policy., is a 2025–2026 Regular Session House bill sponsored by Committee on Insurance; status failed, last action 2026-02-19 (Final Action - Not passed; Yea 20, Nay 102, Absent 3); PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-10-19).

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## Facts
- Bill: Kansas HB 2736
- State: Kansas
- Session: 2025–2026 Regular Session
- Title: Requiring hospitals to screen all patients for eligibility for such hospital's financial assistance program or charity care policy.
- Status: failed
- Chamber: House
- Introduced: 2026-02-05
- Last action: 2026-02-19, Final Action - Not passed; Yea 20, Nay 102, Absent 3
- Sponsor: Committee on Insurance
- Cosponsors: 0
- Subjects: house committee on insurance
- Touches household money: yes
- Roll calls: 2 (40 yes, 204 no in all)
- Economic provisions PRIA read: 0

## Summary

No summary available.

## Bill overview

No economic impacts identified for this bill.

## Sponsors and cosponsors

- Sponsor: Committee on Insurance

## Roll call votes

| Date | Chamber | Motion | Result | Yes | No | Other |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-04-23 | House | Yea: 20 Nay: 102 | fail | 20 | 102 |   |
| 2026-02-19 | House | Final Action - Not passed | fail | 20 | 102 |   |

## Actions (7)

- 2026-02-19: Final Action - Not passed; Yea 20, Nay 102, Absent 3 (House)
- 2026-02-18: Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted (House)
- 2026-02-18: Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended (House)
- 2026-02-17: Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by House Committee on Insurance (House)
- 2026-02-13: Hearing: Friday, February 13, 2026, 3:30 PM — Room 218-N (House)
- 2026-02-05: Introduced (House)
- 2026-02-05: Referred to House Committee on Insurance (House)

## Bill text

- As Amended by House Committee: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2736/hb2736_01_0000.pdf)
- As Introduced: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2736/hb2736_00_0000.pdf)

## Related bills

- SB 430: Adding mitragynine to schedule I of the uniform controlled substances act and reconciling multiple amendments to certain statutes in the Kansas criminal code. (signed)
- SB 82: Providing tax credits for expenditures for lockable gun and ammunition storage and the retail sale of higher ethanol blends of fuel, discontinuing the tax cred… (signed)
- SB 300: Providing for the apportionment of business income by manufacturers of alcoholic liquor depending on whether the taxpayer is a qualifying Kansas investor or a… (signed)
- HB 2029: Reconciling multiple amendments to certain statutes. (signed)
- HB 2018: Senate Substitute for HB 2018 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs - Creating the crime of interference with the conduct of a religious assembly, providin… (became law)
- HB 2036: Providing a Kansas income tax subtraction modification for certain amounts received as compensation for members of the armed forces. (failed)

## Sources
- [As Amended by House Committee (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2736/hb2736_01_0000.pdf)
- [As Introduced (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2736/hb2736_00_0000.pdf)

## Related
- [SB 430: Adding mitragynine to schedule I of the uniform controlled substances act and r…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-SB430-2025-2026)
- [SB 82: Providing tax credits for expenditures for lockable gun and ammunition storage…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-SB82-2025-2026)
- [SB 300: Providing for the apportionment of business income by manufacturers of alcoholi…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-SB300-2025-2026)
- [HB 2029: Reconciling multiple amendments to certain statutes.](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-HB2029-2025-2026)
- [HB 2018: Senate Substitute for HB 2018 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs - Creat…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-HB2018-2025-2026)
- [HB 2036: Providing a Kansas income tax subtraction modification for certain amounts rece…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-HB2036-2025-2026)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-HB2736-2025-2026 (as of 2026-10-19).