2006 Kansas Code - 65-3506

      65-3506.   Board of adult care home administrators established; duties; members; appointment; qualifications; meetings; final orders; compensation and expenses. (a) There is hereby established the board of adult care home administrators. The board shall be attached to the department of health and environment and shall be within the department as a part thereof. All budgeting, purchasing and related management functions of the board shall be administered under the direction and supervision of the secretary of health and environment. The department shall serve as the administrative agency of the board in all respects and shall perform such services and duties as it may be legally called upon to perform. The attorney for the board shall be an assistant attorney general appointed by the attorney general. The office of the attorney general shall serve as the enforcement agency for the board. All vouchers for expenditures and all payrolls of the board shall be approved by the chairperson of the board and by the secretary of health and environment.

      (b)   The board of adult care home administrators shall be composed of seven members appointed by the governor, three of whom are representatives of professions and institutions concerned with the care and treatment of chronically ill or infirm elderly patients, two consumer representatives who have no current or previous involvement in the financial affairs or as a member of the governing body of any adult care home or any association directly concerned with the regulation or licensure of adult care homes in the state and two adult care home administrators who, at the time of their appointment, are licensed by the state and are actively engaged in the administration of adult care homes within the state. No more than three members of the board may be licensed administrators. Members of the board, other than the licensed administrators, shall have no direct financial interest in adult care homes. Members of the board shall serve on the board for terms of two years or until otherwise disqualified from serving on the board, except two of the members first appointed shall serve on the board for terms of one year and thereafter, upon the expiration of such one year terms, successors shall be appointed in the same manner as the original appointments for terms of two years. The provisions of this act shall not affect the office of any member of the board of adult care home administrators appointed prior to the effective date of this act. All members of the board appointed after the effective date of this act shall be appointed by the governor.

      (c)   Members of the board of adult care home administrators shall meet at such times as may be appropriate but in no case less than once each four months. The chairperson of the board shall be elected annually from among the members of the board. All final orders shall be in writing and shall be issued in accordance with the Kansas administrative procedure act.

      (d)   Members of the board who attend meetings of such board, or attend a subcommittee meeting thereof authorized by such board, shall be paid compensation, subsistence allowances, mileage and other expenses as provided in K.S.A. 75-3223, and amendments thereto.

      History:   L. 1975, ch. 328, § 2; L. 1980, ch. 194, § 1; L. 1988, ch. 352, § 2; L. 2001, ch. 197, § 3; L. 2003, ch. 71, § 3; July 1.