Appropriations committee approves budgets for dental board, behavioral sciences board and healing arts

The Committee on Appropriations voted by voice to approve revised budget estimates for three state licensing and regulatory agencies.

Chairperson Walsinger presented the Kansas Dental Board budget, reporting a FY26 revised estimate of $549,072 from the dental board fee fund and 3 FTE and a FY27 estimate of $510,000 and 3 FTE. Chairperson Walsinger moved to approve the budget; Representative Amix seconded. The committee responded “Aye” and the chair declared the motion passed by voice vote.

Chairman Turk reported the Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board (BSRB) budget. The BSRB requested $1,200,000 from the BSRB fee fund for FY26 and again for FY27 (the FY27 request included a small increase tied to expenditure limitation for the approved pay plan). Chairman Turk moved approval; Representative Amix seconded. The committee approved the BSRB budget by voice vote.

Chairman Turk then presented the Kansas State Board of Healing Arts’ revised estimates (approximately $8,103,782 for FY26 and $8,273,075 for FY27, with 67 FTE positions). The committee moved and seconded the motion (second by Representative Mosher); the voice vote passed.

Procedural note: the transcript records voice votes and the phrase “Motion passes” for each item; it does not provide roll‑call tallies in the excerpted transcript. Committee members earlier directed that questions be raised during presentations and had opportunities to ask, but no recorded roll‑call or dissent is shown in these passages.

Next steps: approved budgets were recorded in committee action for forwarding per committee procedures.