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No Medicaid Expansion This Year

 

No action taken on Medicaid Expansion, not this year. The Kansas legislature adjourned early Sunday morning without passing a plan to expand Medicaid as Gov. Laura Kelly wanted. Lawmakers approved an $18.4 billion budget which had been blocked by Democrats and moderate Republicans wanting to pass an expansion plan, but the moderates relented causing the effort to collapse.

 

So Kansas taxpayers will not be affected by Medicaid Expansion unless it passes next year. The Senate might be reconvening May 14th to consider a nomination to the Kansas Court of Appeals. Both House and Senate plan to return May 29th for the formal ceremony that officially marks the end of the Legislature’s annual session. The new fiscal year begins July 1st.

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