Chapter 65, PUBLIC HEALTH

65-1,234. Review of agency actions. Any person adversely affected by any order or decision of the secretary pursuant to this act, within 15 days after service of the order or decision, may request in writing a hearing. Hearings under this section shall be conducted in accordance …

65-1,235. Severability. If any provision of this act or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity does not affect other provisions or applications of this act which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application. To this end t…

65-1,241. Definitions; establishment of birth defects information system; aspects of implementation of system. (a) As used in K.S.A. 65-1,241 through 65-1,246, and amendments thereto: (1) "Department" means the department of health and environment. (2) "Freestanding birthing cent…

65-1,242. Use of birth defects information system. The birth defects information system may be used for all of the following purposes: (1) To identify and describe congenital anomalies, stillbirths and abnormal conditions of newborns; (2) to detect trends and epidemics in congeni…

65-1,243. Confidentiality of records. (a) Except as provided in this section, records received and information assembled by the birth defects information system pursuant to K.S.A. 65-1,241, and amendments thereto, are confidential medical records. All medical records reviewed and…

65-1,244. Removal of information from system; form. A child's parent or legal guardian who wants information concerning the child removed from the birth defects information system shall request from the local health department or the child's physician a form prepared by the secre…

65-1,245. Rules and regulations. Not later than 180 days after the effective date of this section, the secretary of health and environment shall adopt rules and regulations in accordance with the provisions of this act to do all of the following subject to available funding: (a) …

65-1,246. Annual report. Three years after the date a birth defects information system is implemented pursuant to K.S.A. 65-1,241, and amendments thereto, and annually thereafter, the secretary shall prepare a report regarding the birth defects information system. The department …

65-1,247. Expedited processing and issuance of certain permits. (a) The department of health and environment shall expedite processing and issuance of any permit required to be issued by the department for construction or operation of a refinery. (b) As used in this section, "ref…

65-1,248. Breastfeeding; where. (a) Breast milk is widely acknowledged to be the most complete form of nutrition for infants, with a range of benefits for infant's health, growth, immunity and development and has also been shown to improve maternal health and bonding in addition …

65-1,249. Umbilical cord banks; regulation of operations; rules and regulations; education and training in collection and maintenance procedures; duties and functions of department of health and environment, Kansas bioscience authority. (a) The secretary of health and environment…

65-1,250. Umbilical cord donation information act. (a) This section shall be cited as the umbilical cord donation information act. (b) A health care provider providing health care services to a pregnant woman during the last trimester of such pregnancy, which health care services…

65-1,251. Influenza immunization for children; awareness and participation. The department of health and environment shall work to increase influenza immunization awareness and participation among parents of children aged six months to five years in child care facilities. The off…

65-1,252. Division of health care finance; director; officers and employees. (a) There is hereby established, within the department of health and environment, the division of health care finance. The head of the division shall be director of health care finance, who shall be appo…

65-1,253. Same; transfer of powers, duties and functions; Kansas health policy authority abolished. (a) The Kansas health policy authority created by K.S.A. 75-7401, and amendments thereto, is hereby abolished. (b) Except as otherwise provided by K.S.A. 65-1,252 through 65-1,258,…

65-1,254. Same; transfer of powers, duties and functions to division; reference; rules and regulations. (a) The department of health and environment and its division of health care finance shall be the successor in every way to the powers, duties and functions of the Kansas healt…

65-1,255. Same; division successor to funds and liability. (a) The balances of all funds or accounts thereof appropriated or reappropriated for the Kansas health policy authority or any state agency, department, board, commission or council, relating to the powers, duties and fun…

65-1,256. Same; division successor to property and rights; conflict resolution. (a) When any conflict arises as to the disposition of any property, power, duty or function or the unexpended balance of any appropriation as a result of any abolition or transfer made by or under the…

65-1,257. Transition; preservation of civil actions and proceedings; no abatement of criminal actions. (a) No suit, action, or other proceeding, judicial or administrative, lawfully commenced, or which could have been commenced, by or against any state agency or program mentioned…

65-1,258. Same; transfer of officers and employees; preservation of civil service rights; retirement benefits, leave balances and other rights. (a) All officers and employees of the Kansas health policy authority who, immediately prior to the effective date of K.S.A. 65-1,252 thr…

65-1,259. Prenatally and postnatally diagnosed conditions awareness programs; prenatally and postnatally diagnosed conditions awareness program fund. (a) The Kansas council on developmental disabilities shall authorize and oversee certain activities, including the awarding of gra…

65-1,260. Palliative care and quality of life interdisciplinary advisory council; creation; membership; duties. (a) There is hereby created the palliative care and quality of life interdisciplinary advisory council within the department of health and environment. The purpose of t…

65-1,261. State palliative care consumer and professional information and education program; creation; duties of department of health and environment. (a) There is hereby created the state palliative care consumer and professional information and education program in the departme…

65-1,262. Prenatally and postnatally diagnosed conditions awareness programs; transfer of authorization and oversight to Kansas council on developmental disabilities; transfer of powers, duties and functions; rules and regulations. (a) Authorization and oversight of prenatally an…

65-101. Health supervision; investigation of causes of disease, sickness and death; sanitation inspections; prevention of spread of disease; outreach services; rules and regulations; injunction; revocation by legislature or legislative coordinating council of certain orders; civi…

65-102. Registration of vital statistics and diseases; forms. The secretary of health and environment shall supervise the registration of marriages, births and deaths, and also the registration of forms of disease prevalent in the state; and the director of the division of public…

65-102a. Materials relating to environmental concerns; public inspection; copies, fee, approval; disposition of moneys. All correspondence, written materials or other documents relating to environmental concerns, for which public release of such information is not prohibited, sha…

65-102b. Confidentiality of information concerning noninfectious diseases; disclosure. Information concerning noninfectious diseases obtained by the secretary under K.S.A. 65-102 is confidential and shall not be disclosed except as provided in this section. The secretary may disc…

65-103. Special sanitary service. The secretary of health and environment shall when he thinks best to do so appoint committees, or engage suitable persons to render special sanitary service, to make or supervise practical or scientific investigations and examinations requiring e…

65-103a. Authority to receive federal or other funds. The secretary of health and environment is hereby authorized to receive grants of money and funds appropriated under any federal act or from any other source. History: L. 1943, ch. 267, § 1; L. 1970, ch. 245, § 1; L. 1974, ch.…

65-103b. Federal title X funding priorities for family planning services. (a) As used in this section: (1) "Federally qualified health center" means the same as defined in K.S.A. 65-1669, and amendments thereto; and (2) "hospital" means the same as defined in K.S.A. 65-425, and a…

65-116a. Definitions. As used in K.S.A. 65-116a through K.S.A. 65-129f, and amendments thereto: (a) "Blood" means human blood, human blood components and products made from human blood. (b) "Health officer" means the secretary of health and environment or the secretary's designee…

65-116b. Tuberculosis suspects; order by health officer; scope of examination; care and treatment. When any health officer shall have reasonable grounds to believe that any person has tuberculosis in a communicable form and will not voluntarily seek a medical examination, it shal…

65-116c. Precautions to prevent spread of infection, when; investigations. Whenever it has been determined that any person has tuberculosis in an active stage or in a communicable form, and such person is not immediately admitted as a patient in any medical care facility qualifie…

65-116d. Failure to do required acts; proceedings by county attorney. Whenever any person shall fail to do any of the following enumerated acts, the health officer shall file a written notice of such failure with the county or district attorney of the county where such person res…

65-116e. Commitment to medical care facility; restraint; discharge, when; recommitment. If any person shall be convicted of any of the violations set forth in paragraphs (a) and (b) of K.S.A. 65-116d, or shall enter a plea of guilty thereto when charged with such violations, then…

65-116g. Penalty for violations of act or regulations. Any person who violates any provision of this act, or any rules or regulations of the secretary of health and environment for the enforcement of this act, or violates any of the rules or regulations of any institution while a…

65-116h. Preservation of individual rights. Nothing in this act shall be construed or operate to empower or authorize the secretary of health and environment or the secretary's designee or a local health officer to restrict in any manner the individual's right to select the mode …

65-116i. Expenses of care, maintenance and treatment; payment from state funds. Except as otherwise provided by K.S.A. 65-116l, and amendments thereto, the expenses incurred in the inpatient care, maintenance and treatment of patients committed under the provisions of K.S.A. 65-1…

65-116j. Care, maintenance and treatment; powers and duties of the secretary of health and environment. The secretary of health and environment is hereby granted and may exercise the following powers and duties in providing for the care, maintenance and treatment of persons havin…

65-116k. Rules and regulations of the secretary of health and environment; payments for care and treatment. The secretary of health and environment is hereby authorized and directed to adopt rules and regulations establishing reasonable rates and administrative procedures to be f…

65-116l. Use of funds for care, maintenance or treatment; limitations. No funds appropriated to the department of health and environment for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of K.S.A. 65-116i, and amendments thereto, shall be used for meeting the cost of the care, maint…

65-116m. Recovery of cost of care, maintenance or treatment from third parties. Where funds appropriated to the department of health and environment have been expended for the purpose of meeting the cost of the care, maintenance or treatment of any person who has communicable or …

65-118. Reporting to local health authority as to infectious or contagious diseases; persons reporting; immunity from liability; confidentiality of information; disclosure. (a) Whenever any person licensed to practice the healing arts or engaged in a postgraduate training program…

65-119. Duties and powers of county or joint boards of health and local health officers; contagious diseases; confidentiality of information; disclosure, when. (a) Any county or joint board of health or local health officer having knowledge of any infectious or contagious disease…

65-122. Schools and child care facilities; non-admissions and exclusions; readmissions, when. No person afflicted with an infectious or contagious disease dangerous to the public health shall be admitted into any public, parochial or private school or licensed child care facility…

65-123. Funeral services. Funeral services for individuals who have died while suffering from an infectious or contagious disease shall be conducted in accordance with rules and regulations of the secretary of health and environment. In diseases requiring quarantine of contacts, …

65-126. Quarantine of city, township or county. Whenever the county or joint board of health or the local health officer neglects to properly isolate and quarantine infectious or contagious diseases and persons afflicted with or exposed to such diseases as may be necessary to pre…

65-127. Penalty provision. Any person found guilty of violating any of the provisions of K.S.A. 65-118, 65-119, 65-122, 65-123 and 65-126, and any amendments thereto, or failing to comply with any requirements thereof shall be fined, upon conviction, not less than twenty-five dol…

65-128. Rules and regulations of secretary to prevent spread and dissemination of diseases; testing and quarantine; protection of providers and recipients of services. (a) For the protection of the public health and for the control of infectious or contagious diseases, the secret…