Requiring grant applications, expenditure information, reports and other documentation concerning the rural health transformation program to be presented and provided to the state finance council, house of representatives committee on appropriations, senate committee on ways and means and legislative budget committee.

HOUSE BILL No. 2555
AN ACT concerning rural health; requiring grant applications, expenditure information,
reports and other documentation concerning the rural health transformation program
to be presented and provided to the state finance council, house of representatives
committee on appropriations, senate committee on ways and means and legislative
budget committee.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
Section 1. (a) All grant applications from a partner, stakeholder or
subawardee requesting moneys from the rural health transformation
program established pursuant to section 71401 of public law 119-21,
following review of such application by the Kansas rural health
innovation alliance, shall be presented to the state finance council at a
state finance council meeting. Such application information presented
to the state finance council shall include the:
(1) Partner, stakeholder or subawardee receiving the grant;
(2) purpose of the grant including planned expenditures;
(3) physical location and, if applicable, the local impacted
community where the intended expenditures shall be made; and
(4) outcomes to be achieved by each grant.
(b) As soon as practicable following the expenditure, information
concerning the moneys expended by the state of Kansas from the
centers for medicare and medicaid services pursuant to section 71401
of public law 119-21 for the rural health transformation program and
any other federal law that appropriates moneys to the state for the rural
health transformation program shall be presented to the state finance
council at a state finance council meeting.
(c) Any report and other documentation required to be submitted
to the centers for medicare and medicaid services pursuant to section
71401 of public law 119-21 shall be provided to the state finance
council. Each grant recipient shall provide to the state finance council
quarterly reports of the metrics used to measure success of the intended
outcomes and key performance indicators achieved through the
awarded grant.
(d) All grant applications, expenditure information, reports and
other documentation required to be presented and provided pursuant to
this section shall also be presented and provided to the house of
representatives committee on appropriations and the senate committee
on ways and means at a committee meeting during the regular session
of the legislature and to the legislative budget committee when the
legislature is not in regular session.
(e) The governor shall designate who will present and provide the
information as required by this section.
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Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
publication in the Kansas register.
I hereby certify that the above BILL originated in the HOUSE, and passed
that body
Speaker of the House.
Chief Clerk of the House.

Passed the SENATE ______________________________________________________________________________
President of the Senate.
Secretary of the Senate.
APPROVED __________________________________________________________________________________________________
Governor.